Having managed a place with a "public" restroom, I have never ever seen so much human shit on the floor, wall, side of the toilet, sink, or door handle as in a woman's bathroom...filthy creatures.
2) Physical media is dead. 3) The only things they have to show you in virtual media is all the bass-ackward ways they can think of to prevent you from watching it (see: Ultraviolet). 4) Everyone bought their goddamn flat screens, thanks, and they don't need another one. The life cycle on TVs is 7 years and we all had to upgrade in 2009 so kindly fuck off, Samsung. 5) Microsoft doesn't have anything to say except "by the way, did you guys know we make a phone OS?" 6) The Wii U is cool but we saw that six months ago. 7) Sony claims the PS3 has a "10 year lifecycle" which means you won't see a PS4 until 2016. 8) What other "consumer electronics" is there? This is how bad it is: http://www.drugstorenews.com/article/schick-highlight-its-ne... That's right - a mutherfucking razor is now considered a "consumer electronics product." Should Apple show up with something, it will be a HOLY SHIT moment because outside of consoles, everything else is "meet the new gadget, same as the old gadget."
I had little choice but to laugh and immediately repost. I don't know why.
Right now, you can't buy a SAN or disk array that isn't Thunderbolt. What Apple computer is notably lacking Thunderbolt? The Mac Pro. You can't even put it on a card - it has to have board-level access. Yeah, you can get a Magma Thunderbolt chassis for your PCIe cards, or you will when they start shipping them. So you'll still be able to run a 3-card Pro Tools system... but you'll have to plug it into a Macbook Pro or an iMac. Which means one of your two screens is going to be whatever the computer comes with and which means you can't upgrade the video. It also means that the same people who were burned to fuck by Apple dropping the PC Card right about the time P2 became a video standard are going to be burned to fuck with all the firewire peripherals we've got around us that, incidentally, cost a shitload more than the fucking computer in the middle anyway. And it's a laggy bitch, by the way - yeah, it rawks for displays and yeah, it rawks for disk access. But since it's one bus for both, if you're running a monitor and a storage array it fucks up both of them.
What I want, is a new type of experience. Something in the same neighborhood with what Will Wright is talking about http://hubski.com/pub?id=12845, but more about me, and less about platforms and tie-in bullshit. IMO, the problem with my phone, is that it has awesome potential functionality to work with other phones around me, and do very cool things, but we need to actively agree to do it. Considering that phones have personal info in them, that makes sense. But, in terms of what is possible, it's very limiting. What I want is a mobile console experience. I want a device that turns my world into something else. I want to be able to hide a digital cache at a real place, and I want to be able to blast my friend. Yes, I want a mobile gaming console.