Digital Living

Jobs on the Job -- 30 years of great & exciting innovation at Apple

Times Magazine provides great compilation of 30 years of amazing innovation at Apple. They provide it as a series of narration and pictures.
This great story of innovation is not yet ended, as Steve Jobs & Apple still introduce one more exciting innovation recently: the iPad.

Nevertheless, you might still be interested to take a quick look back at the past. Enjoying the series of pictures and story that Times provide.

   

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10 Billion Songs has been downloaded from iTunes site!

Amazing achievement! As of today, 10 billion songs has been downloaded from Apple iTunes site!
I wonder what would be next? e-Books? Apple really amazingly prove to everybody that commercial digital distribution scheme does work; and that -- although customer has to pay to get it downloaded -- it can be extremely successful too!

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The most interesting photo I saw on the internet today!

The photographer said that he took the picture on the London Tube, on his daily commute. He capture the very rare moment with his iPhone.
Seems having camera that is always attached to your phone has its usefulness. It allows you to capture sparkling moment that is suddenly happen without you could ever plan it to beforehand.

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Awesome! -- Google plan to serve 1Gbps internet to selected communities!

It was told that Google seem to have a plan to serve 1Gbps internet to selected communities in the US.
Seattle might be the first city to be selected. With 1Gbps internet inplace, imagine what would become possible!

Imagine also what would become possible, once every city, community and government start doing the same ...
Such would be truly awesome!

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Have you seen the new & exciting "Google Buzz" yet ??

Truly fascinating technology from Google! It embeds social networking capability inside user's existing gMail box.

In many ways -- if the existing gmail user and existing social-networking-fans start adopting it, facebook shall be very very careful indeed.

Let's see how it would work out!

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JAL filed for bankruptcy

JAL filed for bankruptcy, and it was told that now the whole value of JAL as a business is less than the price of one of its airplane!

While indeed it surprises me that JAL could goes havoc like this. It is still unbelieveable to me that the whole value of JAL is not more than the price of 1 new boeing airplane.

In modern time, perception of the market -- I guess -- many times really no longer reflecting true reality. It very often getting totally distorted. And many times, later on, proven to be silly.

Apple was considered a 'dead company' a 15 years ago. The market perceive it as a RIP. Not really. In the hand of Steve Jobs, it make its greatest come back. Today valuation of Apple is even bigger than IBM.

JAL was the largest airline in Asia. It has so many airplanes, asset, building in so many shape and form. And of course debts -- short term, long term, expenses, expenditure and operating capital. Yet the market suddenly perceive its total valuation  less than 1 of its boeing airplane?

I inherently don't think so. Or -- at least -- I tend to NOT believe so!

I could be wrong though. :-P

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JAL filed for bankruptcy

JAL filed for bankruptcy, and it was told that now the whole value of JAL as a business is less than the price of one of its airplane!

While indeed it surprises me that JAL could goes havoc like this. It is still unbelieveable to me that the whole value of JAL is not more than the price of 1 new boeing airplane.

In modern time, perception of the market -- I guess -- many times really no longer reflecting true reality. It very often getting totally distorted. And many times, later on, proven to be silly.

Apple was considered a 'dead company' a 15 years ago. The market perceive it as a RIP. Not really. In the hand of Steve Jobs, it make its greatest come back. Today valuation of Apple is even bigger than IBM.

JAL was the largest airline in Asia. It has so many airplanes, asset, building in so many shape and form. And of course debts -- short term, long term, expenses, expenditure and operating capital. Yet the market suddenly perceive its total valuation  less than 1 of its boeing airplane?

I inherently don't think so. Or -- at least -- I tend to NOT believe so!

I could be wrong though. :-P

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Here comes the "Google Tablet" !! :-)

A few days after Apple announced their iPad, Google released some mockups of Google Chrome OS Table.
Here's how it looks like.

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The first tweet from outer-space!

No it's not something that is being sent by an UFO. It's the first twitter message sent by Astronaut @Astro_TJ, as TJ Creamer is known on Twitter.

New software aboard the International Space State has made it possible for people to tweet live from space, and Astronaut Timothy Creamer wasted no time in sending the first digital message. He posted the first live update while in orbit, saying: “Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space!

The implication of this could be major:

1. For the first time, we -- citizens of planet earth -- might start having constant feed of what our astronaut's see and experience interesting, in outerspace!
2. In the near future the technology will also give astronauts the ability to use the web and connect with loved ones from space in a much more real-time fashion.
3. Even cooler -- as 'space travel' become mass and increasingly more affordable/popular in the future (see the 'space travel' iniative by pioneers such as Sir Richard Branson, and by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com founder -- http://arvino.posterous.com/virgin-oceanic-another-cool-innovation-from-s) -- it is not impossible that "soon" our kids and grand-children might start receiving post-card and short-video messages from mommy, daddy and granny that happen to be 'on holiday trip' ... to outerspace!
   

The world is getting smaller, and in many ways the outer-space as we know it now also start becoming closer, and no longer that 'far far' away as we used to envision it years ago, anymore. :-)

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MySQL is now an Oracle company. It now become possible that "someday" one of the best & most popular Oracle product is actually ... MySQL!!!

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