about everything, and especially the rest
Mac or PC: I am torn between the two options. Apple is gaining market share, and I can feel it around me: all my friends fall one after the other for the MacBook or MacBook Pro. And I can’t imagine how the sexy MacBook Air will appeal to them …
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4M iPhones sold |
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4M iPhones sold, that’s what Steve Jobs announced yesterday at the MacWorld 2008 keynote.
4M, in 200 days. That’s something like $1.5 or $2 billions (*) only in sales. $2 billions in 200 days, $10M revenues a day since last june in iPhone sales.
How many products in history have achieved such results ?
(*) Not knowing the commission received from the mobile operators nor the breakdown in sales before/after the price decrease.
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Primaries for dummies |
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Update: Check the paradox of the number of delegates per State.
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Civics session at work - Frightening ! |
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This morning, we were discussing politics during coffee - and I guess this will be my daily bread for the next 8 months.
I understand what the primaries and caucuses are, and I was wondering what the result would be. Well the discussion goes on and on and on, and I am horrified to discover that I know more than the people around me - and i don’t know much !
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MacWorld 2008 Steve Jobs’ Keynote. And ? |
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My first reaction watching the keynote can be summarized like this: When I grow up, I wanna be Steve Jobs doing a keynote.
I thought about the iPod, the G4, the iPhone, the MacBook Pro, an entire audience
waiting for the announcment of the launch of a new buzz product that will kindle the entire press for months. The announcement of the iPhone being, for me, one of the best shows Steve has given so far (remember? the last moments before he spit it: “An iPod, A Phone, And A Internet Communicator. An iPod, A Phone, And A Internet …..”).
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MacBook Air: I want one ! |
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Pessimism |
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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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Google vs Windows Mobile |
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I use Gmail, Google search, Google Maps, Gtalk and Google Synch on my Blackberry Curve. They are also available on the iPhone, with the addition of YouTube, Reader, Picasa and iGoogle, as Google will announce at Mac World.
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The Islamic schism: Sunnis and Shiites |
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My understanding of the Shi’a and Sunni schism inside the Islamic religion has always been approximative, a gathering of the information I collected watching and reading the news.
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250,000 free online maps at the UT Library |
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The University of Texas at Austin just made public and easily available 250,000 maps of the world. Politics, religions, people, countries, continents, cities, … It’s fantastic to find in one place everything you need when investigating a subject in geography or geopolitics !
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