A Tribute to The Genius...

Steve Jobs died. No Steve Jobs anymore. R.I.P Steve Jobs, you’re the best… These are the very first messages I’ve seen all around the Web today. It’s a shock. I know we’ve all had somewhat of strange preoccupation about his health in the recent times. But now, it’s a shock.

Of course, the value of Steve Jobs in the whole global software industry is immeasurable. The scale of Apple development is still a bit unexplanatory miracle for analylists and experts and ordinary users, of course. In fact, I firmly believe that if it weren’t for Steve Jobs himself, the company wouldn’t manage to become the most expensive enterprise in the world. The number of people in different countries using iPods, iPhones, iPads and Macs is totally incredible. No, even more, than incredible. And it’s only due to his efforts that the realities are as it is.

For those who might have forgotten, Mr. Jobs also founded Pixar and managed to contribute so much to the global development of animation technologies that these had been lifted up to the highest conceivable levels.

I can now write more and more about numerous essential achievements of this genuine genius of the mankind who we’ve now lost. But I won’t.

I would rather speak of him as an inconceivably smart man, a wiseman, I dare say and the inspiration he somehow put in everyone who’d ever listen to his speeches or read his interviews.

I now recall how I’ve watched his 2005 Stanford Commencement Address; it was so honest and sincere that me, the man, who’d cry for once or twice in my life after I was 3 years old, really felt like crying.

The eternal tenets, the eternal truth of how the life should be lived, how the people should be treated, somehow Steve Jobs managed to be a true icon for the society and just an ordinary man, wearing his black skinny sweater, his plain glasses and his barely shaved face-smile, all at the same time. He had become a real role-model for millions, but for me personally, he had become a sort of a teacher, who I’d now never know in real life, but who’s gonna stay in my heart forever.

Now that he’s gone, no one seems to replace him, but the technological progress won’t, obviously, stop, and the existing companies will continue presenting us the new products and services. Here, I have only one request for Microsoft, and Google, and Samsung, and 4shared, and HP, and, of course, Apple, and others – please, (c) Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!..

R.I.P Steve, we’r gonna miss you a lot


Andy

Google & Samsung - New Global Invasion?

Again, as I was saying, the rivals of Microsoft, like Google are seemingly much better in conducting the high-quality PR campaigns for their products and synchronizing their words with actions.

One more proof for this statesment is the latest news from the side of Google and Samsung, related to their announcement of the upcoming conference resumed as “What’s New from Android”. Here, the companies’ press-offices have already revealed the exact date and even the exact time of the conference in addition to its brief contents. My applauds, guys!

Now about the expected releases of this “What’s New from Android” event, guess that there can be made several interesting conclusions, regarding it:

- Android once again shows us its being, perhaps, the most promising OS now;
- Google does its best to cover all the aspects of global software market;
- Samsung is striving for beating Apple even more, than it used to.

Among these, the third point is, probably, the trickiest one. First of all, the recent tendencies reveal that Samsung has decided to put all the company’s efforts into becoming one of the strongest and the most powerful players on the smartphone and tablet market today (we still remember the recent presentation of the new Samsung Galaxy Tab with support of all conceivable services, like Adobe and 4shared Mobile).

Second of all, it seems like Google has one more time openly declared its union with Samsung in the battle against Apple by organizing the united Android event with it. Now that iPhone 5 hasn’t yet been officially released, both Google and Samsung have time to attract as much audience’s attention as possible.

The perspectives for the future of Google updated phones as well as Samsung Android tablets, for instance, are seemingly flourishing, it’s still hard to predict, whether they will manage to beat iProducts, or not.

For now, we’ll wait for the “What’s New from Android” conference.

Stay cool)
Andy

Tablets, Tablets, Tablets….

Since the latest news about Steve Jobs Apple CEO decision to retire from his job (haha, sounds a bit funny, Mr. Jobs leaving the best of his jobs), I’ve decided to go deeper in my predictions about the development of smartphone and tablet industry, and try to figure out, who’s gonna be at the top in the nearest future.

Whereas the newly-created smartphones get more and more incredible with every new version release, the notion of tablets is rather new to the majority of consumers, a) because they’re still too expensive for an average user b) people don’t find them vitally necessary for work or entertainment (though mainly because of reason a)). Nonetheless, the popularity of iPads and other tablets is gradually growing, and the perspectives are seemingly flourishing as well. Here, the essential question is: who has chances to become the best in this field?

Of course, iPads II are now the most famous and spread among the users worldwide. And you have, probably, heard some bizarre storied about the boy in China, or Korea, who have even sold his kidney to be able to buy the device, which is crazy, but somehow seems rather plausible.

Still, as I’ve already told you, I’ve got some doubts about Apple with their newly-introduced CEO Tim Cook, simply because it’s yet hard to imagine the company’s plans after Steve (sorry, Mr.Jobs for calling you like that). In this respect, some, so-to-say, iRivals on the market have a possibility to maintain and improve their positions in the times of intense, or better to say, harsh competition.

Who are they?

It’s true, that every reputable software company has already started developing their own versions of Apple tablet, which would be likewise stylish, and yet, likewise multifunctional. However, till now, Samsung has, perhaps, become the only company to create the device, which can compete with famous Apple gadgets.

In particular, they have lately released the new dual-core Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, a modified and upgraded tablet with the larger screen and great number of default programs and apps included. Among these, the most useful are, from my point of view, Google Mobile Services, the new version of Adobe Flash Player, and the default 4shared Mobile for Android app, which seems to be essentially important for people, like me, needing much space for all files, like music, photos, and docs.

Although, I haven’t tried the new, as they claim, miraclous tablet by Samsung yet, I guess, it can really be called a decent competitor for iPad II, due to its functionality and look, in the first place.

Hopefully, more and more useful apps, will be also presented to us soon, but….

…we’ll see.


Stay cool)
Andy