Michael’s Two Cents

You may have noticed that Apple lowered the price of the iPhone $200 (from $599 to $399). This comes just a few months after the initial release and seems to have pissed off iPhone owners. I’m not too pissed, just surprised any company would have missed the target in initial pricing.
Steve Jobs seems to [...]

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OLPC (one laptop per child) program is amazing. This short video demo of a prototype shows how it works. for complete details on the program check out http://laptop.org/

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I love a good conspiracy theory. Here’s one little paranoid thought that popped into my head the other day that would explain why Apple chose not to release an SDK (software developer kit) or support for Flash or Java in Safari. You see if you want to develop an application for the iPhone, Apple has [...]

I ran into a little weirdness yesterday with my iPhone. The “slide to unlock” was running slow or not responding. A few other things seemed to be running slow too.Knowing that the iPhone is really just a tiny computer it seemed logical to restart it, which fixed the problem, duh. I did a quick search [...]

I stood in line yesterday for an hour and a half and bought myself an iPhone, which I’m using right now to blog. It just amazes me how fast technology changes the options we have and impacts our lives. But this time its not just a new technological toy that should be admired. This new [...]

Have you seen this? The project’s goal is to, “provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves,” by delivering a $100 laptop to each and every child. It’s a tough little AMD chip powered Linux OS that has some unique off the grid and wireless features (like crank charging) [...]

The official release date is June 29 2007 and a lot of the people in the industry are wondering if it will live up to its promise. When you read the marketing content and watch the TV ads it sounds like the iPhone is going to turn the mobile word upside down.
Most people I know [...]