1) Cost factor
The reintroduction of 3D into mainstream movies has seen a moderate degree of success over the past few years… Theaters have been able to charge more for tickets to 3D screenings, which has helped them in offsetting the exorbitant cost of upgrading their projection hardware(Yaa its a pain you know where for people like us )… But 3D still accounts for a mere fraction of overall ticket sales… This is because even with higher ticket prices, exhibitors cannot afford to make all of their screens 3D-ready… The cost of upgrading is also a problem in the home theater market, where HDTV’s have finally made their way into a majority of homes… The vast majority of these households have only recently bought in… Is it really reasonable to expect people who just shelled out serious money for their new flat screens to go out and buy another $3K TV??? The value-add, especially considering the endemic lack of 3D content, is just not enough to justify the purchase… Even if the consumer in question did have the money, they would be wiser to spend it on lets say upgrading their sound system, before going to 3D…

2) Content factor
There is an effort going on to lure people back into theaters… Unfortunately, it’s not as simple to produce a 3D live action film as it is a 3D animation… To achieve 3D animation, one instructs a computer to render a second channel of video slightly offset from the first… This is not significantly more difficult than creating an ordinary 2D CG animation… For live action films, however, 3D requires special cameras that are heavy and inconvenient to use… The practical upshot of this is that most of the 3D films being produced today are animated… This, of course, has implications for watching 3D films both in the theater and at home… If 3D continues to fail in winning over live action filmmakers, there simply won’t be much to look at… And while the studios have promised a handful of (mostly animated) 3D Blu-ray releases for this year, there’s just isn’t enough content available now to make it a must-have home theater technology…

3) Glasses
Over the years 3D technology has com a long way… But one thing that has not changed is the need for glasses… Reliance on them to send offset images to the brain is still a mainstay of any 3D viewing experience… This is the same case with 3D HDTV’s, which are shipped with battery-powered 3D glasses… This is an annoyance at the theater, but can you imagine having to put on a pair of glasses to watch TV in your living room??? And what do you do if you wear reading glasses??? The glasses make a hard sell even harder…

The push for 3D comes from a confluence of the old desire to create a more immersive cinema experience and the contemporary need to get people excited about going to the movies again… Unfortunately, the current 3D technology fails to deliver on the former and so it is destined to fail at the latter… It totally lacks what current viewers need it terms of viewing experience…

Basically Wired’s proclamation is based on the rise of applications that now invade our daily lives which use the Internet, but do not require browsers… Most of this being sparked by the rise of the iPhone and its app store.  And there is no doubt applications that use Internet technology as a platform have gained serious attention with the increased use of smartphones, social media, the iPad, and web enabled DVD players and TV’s that can stream the Internet… But still i’m not going to bury Web now… It’s got plenty of staying power…

The purpose of the chart in Wired’s article to show the way in which the experience of using the internet has changed over time… But this chart measures activity by looking at traffic, the amount of data consumed by each activity… That definitely is the worst way to analyze this… It’s a know fact that 1 hour Skype chat would consume more data than lets say 6 hours of surfing the web… As its pointed out by boingboing.net that this data can be used to point out a drastic growth in browsing the Web…

The Web as we know it still provides the basic foundation of ALL information… This is why Google is an extremely relevant organization… When ever we want to learn how to make something, seek advice, or just feed our curiosity we would always “Google It”… And the reason it would continue to be a relevant organization is tha the Web will continue to be fed more and more information… We might find things like Skype and Blockbuster to be great but these are not the services we use to gain/seek information… You might stop me here saying that social media is a great place tool for finding good information, but to point out that all the links which we get more or less go back to a website and NOT an application…

For me and nearly all of us the Web has always been about seeking information… And i believe it would continue to be… This is why content would always remain important and this in return means that search engines would always be needed no doubt… Imagine the amount of information on the web right now, and just think how much information would be there in lets say 20 years…

I must admit I was a little wary, first because of the antennagate fiasco, then after hearing complains about iPhone 4′s flaky proximity sensor… I considered picking up an Android handset, but on getting reviews and playing with the emulator it left me unimpressed. I also thought about picking up the Palm Pre, but that device seemed a little too last-generation… Besides, that 720p video camera on the iPhone 4 was awfully tempting…

So, i asked a friend of mine to buy the “sim-free” version in UK for me, as he was going to come to India in a weeks time… which costs approximately 43,000 Indian Rupees… Yaa i know that’s hell expensive but all Apple gadgets are expensive, its a fact that we have to live with…

I’ve now had the iPhone 4 almost 6 days… How do I feel about my purchase???

Well its almost what u call “magical”… The two ultra smooth glass panels, united with a classic brushed steel band… Then the near-invisibility of the pixels, and the smoothness and responsiveness of iOS 4… It all just comes together in a way that almost makes me forget that couple of months back I was criticizing Apple’s iPhone and opted for a Blackberry… It feels like its an artistic master piece rather than just a smart-phone…

The Looks

The first thing that you would notice is its sleek redesign… The iPhone 4 is much slimmer (9.3mm), flatter, and feels like a much sturdier smartphone than the iPhone 3GS thanks to stainless steel along the edges and reinforced glass on both sides (said to be 30 times harder than plastic)… It also feels a tad heavier, by just 2 grams (now 137g). The volume up and down buttons are now metal and separated… The iPhone 4 is available only in black at this time, but a white version will be coming later this year… Maybe Apple would solve the antenna problem in it…

The Screen

Apple has been boasting about its new “Retina” display, with its incredibly high-resolution of 326 pixels per inch (ppi), four times sharper than past iPhones… This is quite evident when you’re reading text on websites and emails on the 3.5-inch screen… Even more noticeable, however, is how much better the contrast is on the new iPhone 4, with much deeper blacks and richer colours compared to the iPhone 3GS—with a screen that looked washed out when viewed side by side with the iPhone 4…

The Camera

Compared to other smart-phones, iPhones always lacked in the camera department… The new iPhone 4 takes much better pictures with its 5-megapixel camera, LED flash and a larger sensor that delivers better low-light performance… The iPhone 4 can also shoot HD video (720p quality at 30 frames per second) and despite not having good zoom, the clarity, colour and handling of motion was very impressive – especially for a smart-phone…

One of my favorite new features of the iPhone 4 is FaceTime, which can best be described as a Skype-like webcam chat between two people over a Wi-Fi connection – but both chatters need an iPhone 4 (Apple says they’ll “open up” the software in the near future so that it’ll work on multiple devices, and over 3G networks, too)…

Conclusion

Without question, the iPhone 4 is the most impressive smartphone in the market right now… Not to mention it works well with the roughly 250,000 apps already available at the iTunes App Store… The iPhone 4 stops just short of perfection, in other words, but it comes awfully close…

Something I know you would be dying to find out… YES, I can make the bars drop by gripping the device a certain way, and NO, I haven’t run into any issue with the proximity sensor… The display goes black and ignores input when I hold the phone up to my face, as it should… Frankly, I think that whole antennagate thing has been overblown… I’ll take the free bumper, though, thanks…

The fundamental two things are totally wrong i.e “Position and Implementation”

POSITIONING

Normally the location of certain information on a page gives us the insight into what are the priorities of a company… For example when Apple launches something new it makes sure its mentioned right in the center of its Home page to gain popularity… Similarly as we can see this new “Who to Follow” appears above rest of the options like @replies, Direct Messages, Favorites, Retweets, and Search… Which clearly implies that this is more important than the rest of those things… This really makes no sense at all, it should be located well the rss feed option… There should also be an option to toggle into a closed/minimized state…

IMPLEMENTATION

I know this is just the testing phase but somethings should be clearly worked out… Say if i blocked a person, it still suggests them (I recently blocked Preeti Zinta because of her continues self endorsements :-/)… It also suggests people I’d followed for a while and consciously decided to stop following… So suggesting these people is unhelpful at best, irritating at worst…

I really feel that Twitter design team should instead of trying to mimic Facebook start with a new slate to design this option on… It would be tough as they as messing around with an application which is used by billions now… But they should seriously make some needful changes in “Who to follow”…

Much of Nokia’s strong growth came in an era during which hardware innovation on its own could secure high margins, and more importantly, when hardware and software were considered independent… The premium-handheld-device business now is about which device can run software applications most smoothly — a matter of hardware-software integration… Nokia has not been able to make the transition….

While Nokia continues to say that N-97 has been a success, it has seen very low sales compared with the millions of devices that Apple and RIM are selling… Even Nokia E-series devices are not getting the volume of sales that the iPhone and BlackBerry phones are getting…

Nokia appears to still dominate the low end of the cell phone market… Its strength over the past several years has been in selling high volumes of low-cost devices to developing markets… While volumes are still high, there are indications that trouble is on the horizon…

Nokia needs to stop trying to spend itself into something it’s not… It’s time to push the high-end software and applications innovation work into partners’ hands… That does not mean giving up on innovation altogether: it means focusing its engineering and design expertise on getting partners’ consumer innovations into a device that gets to market quickly, efficiently, at cost and at scale…

Natural partners are large and small software firms that want their best apps on lots of mobile phones as fast as possible — from gaming companies like Activision to enterprise software companies like SAP…

If Nokia could become the partner of choice for mobile software innovators, its high-end business could become a profitable way to deploy the capacities that make Nokia undisputed leader in the mass market…

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