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How many of us out there want a 5" iPhone? I imagine millions of hands went up. And how about this one. Macbook Air with Retina Display with the same 9 to 12 hours of battery life? Still, millions of hands. And iPad mini with Retina Display? The same thing. Well, you can forget about it for the moment until Apple finds the right balance between providing the best user experience allowable by any technical breakthrough it can bring to the market at the right time. The more and more I think about it, Apple products all fit this philosophy, one that has benefitted users whether its a lowly iPod to the iPhone to the Retina Display Macbook Pro. And balance is something that is taken seriously. However, do not mistaken it for compromise. How does Apple know what that is? Well, imagine Steve Jobs and Jony Ives sitting around tinkering around with different designs and, then suddenly, it just sort of hit them. You just know it. More than just finding the right designs,...

I don't know how I feel about carry around a 12" or 13" iPad (a 13" version is widely being reported as something Apple is looking hard at).  I suppose I will learn to like it.  I'm sure it'll be light enough and capable of doing more in terms of productivity than today's 9.7" iPad or the iPad mini.  And if that's the case, I'm probably for it and may even buy one. Right now, I'm on the 11.6" Macbook Air as I write this post.  A 12" or 13" iPad would have a slightly bigger screen, not to mention that it'll probably have a Retina Display that even late-2010 Air and the current models does not support. I'm talking about this now for a couple of reasons. One, more and more people I know want one. Especially the older folks in my life, grandparents, aunts, and uncles.  Including my mom.  For whatever reason, they want Candy Crush bigger and brighter than it already is on the iPad. Another reason is that even as th...

Source:   Washington Post . Couldn't make this up if I wanted to.  In one of the first posts I've seen from the Post since Jeff Bezos bout the iconic print newspaper for $250 million, it's one about Bezos himself.  It's five myths about its new boss. The first one is this: Jeff Bezos is destroying independent booksellers.  It makes good start to say that it was Barnes and Noble and Borders that started the trend and Amazon only stepped in later.  The segment of the post also regurgitated Amazon's own statements about the Kindle and  how its helping the industry. Except it's also making sure that it can have titles all to itself cutting out booksellers, large and small.  Of course, Washington Post didn't quite put it the way I just did. I'm not an Amazon hater.  I get stuff from them (pay the sales taxes), a Kindle user, and also a proud, new, and happy Prime user as well. Speaking of taxes, the title of the post is "Five myths about Jeff...

Source:   Twitter . I have no idea who Nicole Scherzinger but I do know.  In addition to being a so-so singer, she's also a paid Samsung plant to use the Galaxy S 4.  The problem with that?  Nothing.  It's the free enterprise, right? Except this: The tweet was from her iPhone. I'm okay with people selling their souls and all but they've got to do it right!  It'll be interesting to hear her explanation.  What like those Chinese celebrities paid by Beijing to dump on Apple, she'll claim her iPhone was stolen or what not? So, I know who Nicole Scherzinger is now.  Just not in the way I'd expected.

Source:   Macrumors . Apple and Mac bloggers are looking to crown Apple, specifically the iPhone 5, as T-Mobile's saviors as its first full quarter of carrying the iPhone net it more than 1.1 million users instead of bleeding them.  Well, I think the iPhone 5 helped.  Definitely. After all, T-Mobile sold 900K iPhones (a very old device by today's mobile cycle standard) against 600K of the very new Galaxy S 4 from Samsung.  So, it's likely that combined, both Apple and Samsung, more Apple than Samsung, helped T-Mobile. Having said that, imagine what Apple can and will do for T-Mobile with the next iPhone. Still, I think it's T-Mobile's "uncarrier" plans that play just as big of a role as the iPhone.  When Sprint got the iPhone, it felt the Apple effect but not to the extent of T-Mobile just got.  Sprint did not have a game-changing business model that T-Mobile current has. I think in the next couple of quarters, we will see T-Mobile gain additiona...

Source: The Droid Guy . I have only 16 gigabytes on my iPhone. 32 gigabyte on my iPad. And 32 gigabyte Nexus 7. As you can see, adequate for today I am already considering 64 for my next device, whatever it is.  There will come a time when we look back on this day and wonder how we could have lived on such small quantity of storage and not all of it available to the use remind you.  Just ask those hapless Surface users. Now, a new start up is going to try to bring that time closer by giving us one terabyte of data of storage for out mobile devices. The company is called Crossbar.  The new storage is called resistive RAM or ReRAM.  What's more amazing is that the new storage will be faster, smaller than today's memory chips, and use much less power. How long until we see the new type of storage, ReRAM? Well, there's a good news. They are ready to go into production. However, I recommend it will be very expensive won't be coming too the next Galaxy, iPhone, Nexus o...