AI, Mobile, and Eveything Around the Cloud

It isn't unusual for Apple to change names of a product. And Game Center, being billed as a social gaming network, can grow beyond gaming and Apple is likely to change the name as it becomes a full fledged social network. That's what it is going to become over time. A full network but likely much with more to offer than anything we have in existence today. You want a couple of examples? Look at what Apple has done to the mobile market. And also look at what it plans to do with iAd in advertising. One of the reasons I started thinking about this is because I've made a couple of long distance friends while playing Chess With Friends and Words With Friends. Even with such a rudimentary set of social interactions, I come back to it again and again. It is absolutely rare such happens now but as more developers integrate Game Center into their gaming apps, developers will discover that it is not only gaming apps that can benefit from a social network. And users wil...

In the title of this post, what is almost there?  Well, I'll get into that a bit. Right now, Appleinsider is reporting that the iPhone 4 will be getting VGA-out just like the bigger brother (or cousin).  And as the article aptly pointed out, there is no HDMI support.  Yet.  I'm sure Apple will get it to eventually once whatever it is that is holding things back for Apple are worked out.  I'm guessing it might have something to do with the power use. Of course, I don't have a device that supports HDMI and even if I did, I don't have an output device (HDTV) to use it with.  So, I can't attest to how well such a device might work or how the battery life will end up being. Having said that, this is a very incredible development.  This is where I get to the "amost there" part.  And for Mac campus, relax.  Take a deep breath.  Here goes. The iOS4 and iDevices are progressing towards the natural mobile evolution of becoming computing un...

All everyone has been talking about is the FaceTime feature and the sexy new look of the iPhone. So, let's talk about the new display. 960X640 Officially called by Apple as the "Retina Display" 4X the pixels in the same 3.5" screen. 4X the contrast 326 pixels per inches, make it virtually difficult for the human eye to see from 18 inches away.  It's about the right range when one holds the iPhone from one's face. IPS - same technology as in the iPad:  in-plain switching More durable, scratch-resistant glass - used in helicopters and high-speed train Finger-print resistant - sort of There are other technical details that we don't need to bother ourselves with other than that it's just absolutely gorgeous.   However, in the last week, there have been back and forth debate about the quality the Retina Display and whether Steve Jobs' claim at 326dpi is higher than the 300dpi is more of his reality distortion field. Does that matter? It...