So, I want to go out to eat, a week Monday, at around 8pm. Nothing unusual about that, I do sometimes go out you know.

However this time I want to go to a restaurant that’s the other side of the world.

The internet should be able to easily find me a restaurant near Sydney Opera House that’s open on a Monday at around the right time, that serves seafood (I like good seafood), that has a table free (that’s not right by the toilet), that has a good rating (at least one rating preferably.)

Is it only me that is saddened by this remark?

I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong.

I hope it’s not true.

Dieing angry seems like such a sad way to end your life.

And I would like to remember Steve Jobs for all the other beautifully designed things he brought into the world and not the hatred this quote portrays.

The world needs more people who think of producing the very best that they can do with no compromise. There are too many people involved with computer hardware and software these days whose mantra appears to be ‘Good enough’

This is a selfish observation.

I used to enjoy John Gruber’s blog, but now I’ve become a little jaded by it and
I’m worried about John Gruber.

I hope in his life he has something outside of

Apple Good, Google Bad.

to fall back on.

I may be remembering incorrectly but I’m sure his blog used to have some
very interesting things outside of the very narrow field he seems to have
placed himself in.

Whether it is because Apple are paying him as some have postulated matters not
to me. What I miss are the posts that made me think about something new.
Something outside of the ordinary.

They are conspicuous by their absence and I’m not sure it’s a healthy.

Now when John writes a post I know ninety nine times out of a hundred that he’ll be bashing Android or praising Apple and now my response is to yawn. It’s become predictable.

And when I say I’m worried about John I really mean that I’m worried that the
sort of post I’m interested in will not happen again.

For purely selfish reasons you understand.

There’s a gesture that some phones use whereby when you shake the phone and it randomizes a list of items.
Here’s another possible gesture.

1. The phone rings.
2. You look at the screen to see who’s calling
3. You want to answer so you put the phone to your ear

Call answered and no pressing of buttons needed.

What if Google were to go down the Arm route and use Motorola as a company to produce reference designs for mobile phones and tablets and license them to manufacturers?

They would have the patents, the expertise and could introduce new hardware along with the software to drive it as a complete package to manufacturers.

All thrown in with a bit of patent indemnification.

Plus make sure you patent the gestures before Apple can do it and block your computer from being sold anywhere in the world.

There’s not enough storage on an iPhone, at least for one of the applications I would like to have… The entire Wikipedia.

But there may be enough storage on a micro SD Card. They go up to 32GB now which should be enough for most of the articles on Wikipedia.

There’s one small wrinkle. The iPhone doesn’t have a SD Card slot.

But what if you were to create a small, low power bluetooth device that only had a battery and an SD card slot.

Instant storage boost.

So Apple are currently attempting to get Samsung tables banned from sale based on their design mimicing the iPad and the fact that Samsung does no design work of their own.

However, what if Apple win.

Perhaps Samsung may then have to take design seriously and produce a better ecosystem, design, hardware and software as a cohesive whole. Just like Apple

Then Apple would have a large company which competes much more closely with them rather than being someone with a rather fragmented approach. The end result may be more harmfull to Apple than the status quo.

Quick question.

If I come round to your house and tap into your electricity supply and use some of your electricity then I’m not stealing from you because you’ve still got your electricity, right?

If so, then I’ll be round soon to get my free electricity.