Distastefully done

This is how the shit looks like

well the articles that mention this usual start off with
"Steve Jobs despised Android in his life..."

Of course he did. Just like he did everything half-baked / perfectly imperfect (and ripped off him)

But guess what? He did his job, which simply stated, was making the best products.
Not some vague thing like "do no evil" (especially when you really can't chew)

Agreed, he was no saint - that was never the part of his job.
Sad is that competition, which is not really competition, gets to measures as distasteful as this, which will get some views despite looking like a shit product - action pad.

Good is, it does not matter - he probably might be laughing as well - at the tomfoolery.

Apple - surprising you. Always

So Apple re-called its first generation iPod - quite some time back. The issue was that in rare cases the battery of the iPod may heat up and thus pose a safety risk.

This was for iPods sold in the year 2005-06. The issue had been identified to be limited to one particular battery supplier. So you could check up your serial number and if yours was one of those, you get a replacement - FREE. After 5 years.

and the replaced units are, guess what?
the latest gen iPod nano - yeah, the touch ones.

To add to the delight of a user (I know a colleague in my office), it was replaced with an 8 GB iPod nano.

The one that he bought in 2005 was a 2 GB.

What value!

some more examples of HDR on iOS

some good and some bad - like Steve said, in some cases, HDR truly makes a lot of difference. Had posted about HDR on iOS on my earlier blog (this blog is exclusively dedicated to  stuff.

without further ado, a few examples (will add more later) where HDR helps:

The non-HDR version (quick question: do you see that there are some people on the left? you do? ok, do you see the color of their shirts?)

Now for the HDR version of the same pic below:

Now you see some red, don't you?
and the stone and the grass.

So I'd declare that HDR helped a little here to get the finer details.











Let's look at another example, in a different situation:

here's the non-HDR pic

Nothing wrong with this one (except for the grainy image, which we should, for now, just overlook!)










and now for the same pic's HDR version:

the lights do look better on this one, right?














Will be posting more later, but let me just give one example when HDR messes it up (read: movement)

here's the original one:

This looks good.


















and its HDR version:

Man, the kite's just lost it.

So the original one was better and HDR messed it up.

















more pics would be coming up, as they come up.