This would seem like an incredibly early release of a new console from Sony given that they tend to promote the ’10 year lifespan’ of their consoles, but at this point it is just a rumor. Maybe they’re planning on getting ahead in the next gen and beating Microsoft to release first? The release of the PS3 was a couple of years after the XBox360 was released and the Playstation brand must have lost some ground to Microsoft during that time. Microsoft is already also rumored to announce the XBox720 in 2012 at E3.
Concise list of Linux maintenance tips
Here’s a good list of Linux maintenance tips.
Windows 8 UI is a confused mess
Microsoft has a video on YouTube giving a demo of the new UI for Windows 8. It looks impressive, relying heavily on a touch based interface which would suggest it’s being geared towards supporting tablets. However, halfway though the video, the presenter shows that you can still access files on the file system and use Office to edit your Word docs etc. What, with my finger as a mouse? I don’t think so. This is just as bad as trying to squeeze the Windows interface into Windows Mobile for phones which was just as awful and hard to use even with a stylus replacing the mouse. It’s taken all these years later for Microsoft to try another attempt at a new/improved UI for mobile devices (with the new Windows Phone 7), so apparently it takes them a while to learn from their mistakes.
I’m not sure what the point of this video is. You can’t please everyone all of the time, and trying to just results in a half-baked solution. If the video was demonstrating that Windows 8 will support touch based tablets as well as desktops with two different interfaces, then that’s not as bad, but using Office on a touch based device with your finger as a mouse and the existing desktop UI, that’s a disaster.
Android market share and daily activations now far exceed iOS devices
Activations of Android devices now exceed 500,000 new devices every day. That’s incredible. What’s more, Android devices now have 34% of the smartphone marketshare compared with 26% for iOS devices.
Although Apple bashes Android for it’s fragmentation and lack of standardization across devices, I believe this is precisely the ingredient that makes the platform so successful. People like choice. People don’t like being told what they can and cannot do (or what they can and cannot install on their phone). Sure, iOS devices do have a more stable platform because it is more controlled, but I’d rather go with the quirks, differences and occasional badly behaving app to get what I want, not what you (Apple) tell me I can have or do, thank-you very much.