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Re: Sean Connery To Steve Jobs

jtsdst — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:49:12 -0000

Indeed. Was about to frame a copy :)

Re: Sean Connery To Steve Jobs

jtsdst — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:59:57 -0000

Sadly confirmed as fake since it first came out.

Re: Peek killing off US email and Twitter devices after 'lifelong service'

jtsdst — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:04:00 -0000

They'll be too happy to go bust before shelling out a dime in class action settlement.

Re: Belgacom signs exclusive agreement with on–line music company Deezer

jtsdst — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:14:59 -0000

thanks, but my point exactly :)
That's 4 1/2 months between announcement and launch. Which puts a Deezer launch in April if we're looking at the same speed.Hence my question: any idea when is Deezer launching?

Re: Belgacom signs exclusive agreement with on–line music company Deezer

jtsdst — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:50:55 -0000

When can we expect actual implementation?
Fon was announced in June and still nothing.
Shall we wait another 6 months for Deezer too?

Re: ∞ The bullshit Samsung smartphone numbers

jtsdst — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:15:51 -0000

Hey I must confess being an analyst myself, but I think you are way too harsh here. All analysts don't always pull numbers out of their backside.
Actually it's fairly easy to estimate SSNG's smartphone shipments because they give out growth data and year on year growth for example for feature phones. I had them at 28.5m and didn't invent anything.
Just because some people don't stop at the samsung press release and dig a bit deeper into the data doesn't mean they pull number out of thin air. That's a generalization that doesn't help you make a case.
Agreed on shipments vs sales, though, it's hard to assess what's in the channels, but over several quarters that consideration gets smoothened because channel stuffing often boomerangs in the subsequent quarters.

Re: http://www.hindustantimes.com/technology/PersonalTech-Updates/Acer-launches-cheapest-Windows-Phone-Allegro/SP-Article1-762097.aspx

jtsdst — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:53:05 -0000

Nokia Lumia 710 is $385 off contract on today's exchange rate...

Re: Fitbit Ultra fitness tracker gains altimeter, iPhone app, and $99.95 mid-October release

jtsdst — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:13:49 -0000

"It’ll ship internationally sometime next year."
I have trouble understanding why FitBit is so slow to ship properly outside North America. Meanwhile eBay sellers are laughing all the way to the bank...

Re: FT, You’re Missing the Point With Your HTML 5 iPad Web App (an open letter to FT.com)

jtsdst — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:42:13 -0000

I don't think the article is about technology leadership (that doesn't pay the bills), but rather about choosing the most lucrative channels of distribution to generate actual revenue...
Today's market is not much bigger than iOS in terms of direct revenue. That might change eventually, but I wouldn't forego iOS for the sake of tech leadership.

Re: Using PrePaid Data Sim Cards in Europe

jtsdst — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:33:56 -0000

This link should help anyone travelling anywhere
http://paygsimwithdata.wiki...

Re: HTC Flyer available across Europe today, £600 for 3G, £480 for WiFi-only version

jtsdst — Fri, 13 May 2011 07:33:28 -0000

Fair enough but your first point is wrong. It's pretty much the other way around: Apple has a well documented cost leadership (mostly thanks to economies of scale and flash memory bargaining power) and competitors are struggling to keep up (or down in this case).

Re: HTC's market capitalization reaches $33.8b, overshadows Nokia and RIM

jtsdst — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:21:24 -0000

Apple's market cap is indeed embarrassingly tiny...

Re: The Army Of Fanatics

jtsdst — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 06:17:10 -0000

Numbers isn't that great, but Pages has potential (especially if you draft e.g. in Word or Scrivener then import the raw text in Pages for layout). Check out keynotepro.com if you havent yet. They have the best looking Pages/Keynote layouts I've seen so far.

Re: Google Buzz: where's the love?

jtsdst — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:36:03 -0000

To be fair, it's mainly about the browser situation on respective platforms. iPhone has no dedicated app and it's only because it's a good Webkit browser that you see the chart above.
Features in Buzz require a heavy dose of web dev wizardry, so if I were you I'd rather push Nokia, RIM and MSFT to get busy on supporting decent Firefox or Webkit-based solutions.
RIM seems busy at that, Nokia looks at Maemo with Firefox, and we'll see next week for MSFT.

Re: The Google Phone – Enter The Dragon?

jtsdst — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:42:15 -0000

Good thing your 'feeling' is perfectly aligned with the TechCrunch article then :)
Don't hold your breath, though. TC have been wrong before.
Plus there are many, many reasons why it's not credible - http://bit.ly/3nCD8T - nor a good idea (physical goods + customer care is a nightmare)
I'd file this in the 'yet another wishful forecast' folder. With the iPhone nano.

Re: Alternative Public Transport – A Proposal

jtsdst — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:12:37 -0000

I remember 10 years ago back in Belgium the privatization of the UK rail system was one of my business school case studies. It's a well known (and fascinating) case of the limits of privatization when it comes to public service obligations/objectives.

Re: Customer Relationship Management – Wired Style

jtsdst — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:58:07 -0000

Although I love the gesture and it's indeed a very welcome step up, I am still puzzled by the execution. I tend to read the magazine exactly when I am NOT in front of my computer, so a flash based mag reader is not exactly useful. In Belgium and France, when there is a similar kind of strike, daily newspapers simply offer the full PDF of the paper for free... much more useful and portable.

Re: Shopping at the OVI store…

jtsdst — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:05:45 -0000

Amazing. Congratulations.

Re: Ian From The London Underground Vs An Elderly Man

jtsdst — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:05:44 -0000

Actually there is an alternative, and it's on TFL's website.
Granted it's not for everyone, but I've been doing it for over a year and would not change this for the world.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadu...

Re: Introducing Google Sidewiki

jtsdst — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:12:44 -0000

Sidewiki seems like an attempt (and quite clever I must say) to bring back some light conversation to Blogger from the likes of Posterous and Tumblr, helped by a rather powerful Google/Blogger ecosystem... just my 2 cents...

Re: Samsung Galaxy i7500: First look & unboxing

jtsdst — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:33:28 -0000

Glad we agree then :) My point was I don't expect samsung to touch the firmware radically before 1.6 is out.

Re: Samsung Galaxy i7500: First look & unboxing

jtsdst — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:53:03 -0000

Fair enough. Let's see how Samsung will use the opportunity of the Android 1.6 update to iron things out...

Re: Samsung Galaxy i7500: First look & unboxing

jtsdst — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:09:57 -0000

I've been testing it for a couple of weeks, and I can agree on the need for firmware tweaks (a couple are already on the web though via unofficial channels). The screen lock is highly annoying, mostly due to the general feel of lag in the OS. That's the major issue: lag everywhere. If responsiveness issues were fixed it would be a great device.
I must say the camera has done a decent job, though, in normal handling conditions (the sample pic looks more like user-induced than anything (last pic the focus is obviously on the front).
Still, in its current state, it's nothing more than a stopgap device.
And the battery life is better than the comparable HTC Magic.

Re: Mac Apps For Smooth Runnings

jtsdst — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:53:12 -0000

interesting. I should try and make my own :)

Nice to see Mailplane getting some love, hard to explain how awesome it is to people though
a couple of favorites of mine are:
- for firefox: immediately also install adblock (for speed's sake) and xmarks
- instead of cyberduck -> expandrive (worth the couple of £/$/€)
- evernote

Re: In China

jtsdst — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:31:06 -0000

Very interesting. The only difference between China and here is that acquiring counterfeit goods could result on one side from scarcity of income (average Chinese wage doesn't allow you to get the real deal) and on the other from a problem of allocation of the income (many people here HAVE the required amount for the real deal but rather do something different, e.g. go out, travel, with it and thus go for the counterfeit anyway)... which might be two different issues.
Have a great day.