Fascinating … Twitter map of NYC.
Why Apple's products are 'Designed in California' but 'Assembled in China'
“The New York Times asked that question, and after an extremely well-researched report involving interviews with both former and current executives at Apple, the answer the Times found is both simple and chilling: iPhones aren’t made in America because they just can’t be. The infrastructure and labor force doesn’t exist at the levels necessary to support Apple’s operations — it’s not even close.”
“The Chinese factory where most iPhones reach final assembly employs 230,000 workers. I just asked Siri how many cities in the US have a population higher than that, and the answer was a mere 83 cities — and that’s total population, not workforce. With an average labor force of around 65 percent of the population, only 50 US cities are large enough to provide that kind of labor pool… and even in the biggest US city of them all, New York, 230,000 people still amounts to almost three percent of the city’s entire population. Can you imagine three out of every hundred New Yorkers on an assembly line, cranking out iPhones every day?”
Time for a new word.
“Google has refused requests from journalists and interested bystanders to reveal exactly what percentage of those 90 million signed-up Google+ users actually view Plus content each day, week or month. Instead, Google is arguing that it doesn’t matter: Google+ is so integrated into the overall experience that what matters is the number of users interacting with any Google site.”
You know, I actually think this is a fair argument. Anyone think otherwise?
(via Google doubles Plus membership with brute-force signup process)
Y Combinator Wants To Kill Hollywood
I’m all for it … go get ‘em! The hollywood entertainment model is painfully antiquated. There is totally an untapped opportunity in interactive cinema, we have the technology, we can do this.
Check out this letter I wrote to Netflix in 2007
I must’ve been pretty disgruntled because I don’t normally write letters. This was probably written after I got my first Mac, the original aluminum iMac. It’s nice to see that Netflix followed through as I currently enjoy their service on my Roku, 3Ds, and of course on my iMac (still using it too).
I was very disappointed to discover that my operating system is not compatible with your watch instantly feature. Likewise your feature would not be compatible with systems like the Nintendo Wii, PSP, any non-Windows based mobile device with full internet compatibility, Linux, you get the idea. This model is fine for now. But you will have to adapt to the influx of mobile apparatus, gaming platforms, and growing popularity of non-Windows OS (Mac OS, Linux) that are capable of accessing the the internet. I highly recommend you perform research to gauge the size of these populations. I am certain you will find them non-trivial. Especially in the case of gaming platforms which are perfectly suited to your watch it instantly feature, it’s a match made in heaven. Look at the numbers, these areas are growing in popularity and having a platform independent means of distributing your DRM filled content will only open up more avenues to sell your service. There has to be a feasible way to do this. And if you don’t figure it out there will most certainly be an upstart company down the road that will. Thus making your ingenious business model look antiquated.
What Are Magnet Links, and How Do I Use Them to Download Torrents? [Explainer]
This is a great summary of what magnet links are for you torrenters out there.
I couldn’t help it … this was too funny. It does seem absurd when you put it that way.
It’s an HTML5 world now … Grooveshark’s HTML5 app is pretty awesome
Aahahahaha … . just stay away … I love it!
