rant
Please stop it with the 'FREE' apps!
16/March/2009 04:23 Filed in: Technology
Apple claims that there are a gazzilion apps on the app store. OK smartypants, how many of those apps are "FREE" or "LITE"...in other words DEMO versions of full apps? How many of them are useless fart apps?
When I see "FREE" next to an app, I ASSUME that it is free, as in "a free, fully featured app" not "a free demo".
I would seriously like to see *real* free apps, not just a boatload of //free demos//
Thus ends my rant for today
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MMS is so much more!
22/October/2008 00:38 Filed in: Technology
One of my problems with the iPhone is that it lacks
an MMS client. Now I don't send
MMS messages often, and I don't receive them
often. Having unlimited data on the iPhone would
encourage me to send out more MMS messages.
Sadly, the iPhone does not support this feature.
Many fanboys will says that MMS is antiquated, we not have email so we can send photos over email - hooray for email! What these fanboys are failing to see if that MMS is so much more than just a simple photo sending application. The applications of email and MMS are different and are aimed at a different demographic.
To claim that you can do with email what you do with MMS, and you can do it better is to claim that can do with a mallet what you can do with a jewel's hammer. I suppose you can, but the end result is not the same.
An email is built for text, and attachments come second. There is no presentation layer with email, and there is no streamlining of the data for mobile phones. If you send a 5MP photo over email, it's going to be 5MP - overkill. In addition, there is no notification of whether you have email unless you constantly poll your email server, and even today not all phones come with email clients.
MMS on the other hand is available on all handsets, from the cheap handset you get for free when you sign a contract, to the most advanced smartphones (with the exception of the iPhone of course), so there is a layer of compatibility there.
MMS messages allow you to create slides with content, almost like powerpoint, but as a message platform. The MMS application takes that huge picture you took and scales it down for you to make sending and receiving faster and easier. When you send a picture message (MMS) to someone, the point is not that you want them to have the photo, you just want to show them something.
Finally, with MMS messages you get a notification that you have a new MMS, over the network. You don't have to poll a server to do this - it's just pushed to you.
I wish the fanboys would quiet down already about the superiority of email because they obviously don't get the difference.
Many fanboys will says that MMS is antiquated, we not have email so we can send photos over email - hooray for email! What these fanboys are failing to see if that MMS is so much more than just a simple photo sending application. The applications of email and MMS are different and are aimed at a different demographic.
To claim that you can do with email what you do with MMS, and you can do it better is to claim that can do with a mallet what you can do with a jewel's hammer. I suppose you can, but the end result is not the same.
An email is built for text, and attachments come second. There is no presentation layer with email, and there is no streamlining of the data for mobile phones. If you send a 5MP photo over email, it's going to be 5MP - overkill. In addition, there is no notification of whether you have email unless you constantly poll your email server, and even today not all phones come with email clients.
MMS on the other hand is available on all handsets, from the cheap handset you get for free when you sign a contract, to the most advanced smartphones (with the exception of the iPhone of course), so there is a layer of compatibility there.
MMS messages allow you to create slides with content, almost like powerpoint, but as a message platform. The MMS application takes that huge picture you took and scales it down for you to make sending and receiving faster and easier. When you send a picture message (MMS) to someone, the point is not that you want them to have the photo, you just want to show them something.
Finally, with MMS messages you get a notification that you have a new MMS, over the network. You don't have to poll a server to do this - it's just pushed to you.
I wish the fanboys would quiet down already about the superiority of email because they obviously don't get the difference.
Waste of Bandwidth!
29/June/2008 18:08 Filed in: Internet
I gotta say that I am a teeny bit upset at the waste
of bandwidth that is taking over the internet these
days. Here are some of my least favorite bandwidth
wasting types of activities:
You go to NBC, you click to see a small clip from Last Comic Standing, maybe 4 minutes in total length. Before you can see each mini clip, you HAVE to watch a 30 second add. Seriously?!
You go to a news site, and two thirds of the page is covered in ads. OK, I can deal with it (somewhat) if they are text ads, but those annoying animated GIFs (or worse flash animations) are distracting, annoying and taking up my bandwidth!
You go to that same news site, and they have a flash movie running of the recent (insert film name here) flick, in muted mode. Why do I need to see this? If I want to see a trailer of the movie, I’ll head over to quicktime.com and see it! I don’t want to have it wasting my screen real estate and my bandwidth!
These ads are getting annoying!
You go to NBC, you click to see a small clip from Last Comic Standing, maybe 4 minutes in total length. Before you can see each mini clip, you HAVE to watch a 30 second add. Seriously?!
You go to a news site, and two thirds of the page is covered in ads. OK, I can deal with it (somewhat) if they are text ads, but those annoying animated GIFs (or worse flash animations) are distracting, annoying and taking up my bandwidth!
You go to that same news site, and they have a flash movie running of the recent (insert film name here) flick, in muted mode. Why do I need to see this? If I want to see a trailer of the movie, I’ll head over to quicktime.com and see it! I don’t want to have it wasting my screen real estate and my bandwidth!
These ads are getting annoying!