Apple launched this new product called the iPad, which it says is in-between an iPhone and a Mac. They have finally got it wrong. I am surprised that a company of the caliber of Apple has failed to understand the primary issue with devices. KEYBOARDS!
No matter what fancy touch driven gadgets they bring out, as long as they do not find a way to dispose of the QWERTY layout and bring in a paradigm shift in input of data, they are not going to find that solution. All touch driven keyboards are bad. Anyone who has used them can testify for the fact. They need to make the sort of jump that the 'Mouse' made in the data input field. The mouse radically changed the way data is input into the computer.
The replacement for the keyboard will give us the next big device.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Tata Docomo - Victims of Success
I guess when, Tata launched its GSM service with Docomo, they would have never thought that they would get such unprecedented response to their connection. The marketing done for the launch of the brand was very fresh and attractive. Along with that, the pitch of 1 Paise per Second, touched the right nerve with the audience. Paying for seconds that one does not use was a matter of great debate for a long time and they provided the apt solution.
Having said all of that, the network that they erected would have been done thinking that they would get perhaps tens of thousand of sign ups, whereas the sign ups ran into the hundreds of thousands. Now, the Tata Docomo network is one of the worst networks to be on. Almost every call has to be dialed twice due to frequent disconnections. The quality and clarity remains a huge problem with the network.
Tata Docomo; a victim of its own success. They are unable to support the volumes on their network.
One would have to give up to the fact that, they changed the paradigms of mobile business in India. Before you knew it, every single mobile telephony company was scrambling to change their plan to a per second rate. Even a behemoth such as Airtel, who claim 110 Million people on their network, had to make this shift.
Tata Docomo has managed to be the game changer but successful, I don't know about it.
Having said all of that, the network that they erected would have been done thinking that they would get perhaps tens of thousand of sign ups, whereas the sign ups ran into the hundreds of thousands. Now, the Tata Docomo network is one of the worst networks to be on. Almost every call has to be dialed twice due to frequent disconnections. The quality and clarity remains a huge problem with the network.
Tata Docomo; a victim of its own success. They are unable to support the volumes on their network.
One would have to give up to the fact that, they changed the paradigms of mobile business in India. Before you knew it, every single mobile telephony company was scrambling to change their plan to a per second rate. Even a behemoth such as Airtel, who claim 110 Million people on their network, had to make this shift.
Tata Docomo has managed to be the game changer but successful, I don't know about it.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Chetan Bhagat and 3 Idiots
The story of Chetan Bhagat is one of sour grapes. He went ahead and signed a legally binding contract with the film producer prior to the movie, without reading the contract carefully enough.
Now that the movie has been released, he is crying about credit. Even if he gets the credit, now that the movie has been released, what is he going to achieve out of it. Did he not know that he was not going to get much credit, when he signed on the dotted line.
I think he is just trying to derive as much mileage as possible out of the given situation. If he had a basis for protest, he would have filed a case 2 days before the release of the movie and cashed out on the opportunity. This strategy has been used well by many to reap great rewards.
I think that what he is doing is just going to result in Chetan getting sued.
Now that the movie has been released, he is crying about credit. Even if he gets the credit, now that the movie has been released, what is he going to achieve out of it. Did he not know that he was not going to get much credit, when he signed on the dotted line.
I think he is just trying to derive as much mileage as possible out of the given situation. If he had a basis for protest, he would have filed a case 2 days before the release of the movie and cashed out on the opportunity. This strategy has been used well by many to reap great rewards.
I think that what he is doing is just going to result in Chetan getting sued.
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