Apple's stock is down, at $129/share as I write this. I'm poorer today after buying stock very recently at $160 right before my Mac laptop died. Now I'm really handicapped (sniff, sniff) trying to work on a borrowed laptop until my Mac is back from the Apple hospital. Boo-hoo I lost not only moolah boohlah in the market but a ton of things I didn't have backed up on my laptop. Like photos of my daughter's marriage and my blogroll work-in-progress and all of my tech research.
My two favorite stocks are Apple and Google. Even though the stocks are down, I'm still crazy about them. Yesterday Google ran a special logo internationally (which it rarely does), in honor of the 50th birthday of Lego. I think you can measure the geekness of a person by just bringing up Legos in a conversation. My son-in-law's favorite experience just might have been his visit to LEGOLAND.
On my way to the Apple Store last week I tried to use my Treo to look up the Apple Store address. It just didn't work well. I didn't know you could do Google 411 (new) for business numbers. While in the Apple Store I played with the iPhones and the way you can get Google and sites up and enlarge them with a finger-spread is pretty cool. The iPhone Touch will be the WiFi stepping stone between iPod and the iPhone. They've upset the balance of power and Jobs is ahead of the game with his gadgets, locked or unlocked. I just don't know why the stock is down unless people don't get the direction of things. I've had fun, anyway, figuring out where media will go-go and I know it will get Google-ized. If it is all about cloud-computing and access, Marshall McLuhan's idea of media as extensions of man is right on. Connections to the information.
As I always was taught, it isn't what you know but that you know where to go to get the information and that you know how to think and what to think about. I don't want my mind cluttered with stuff. I want to click click to my contacts, click to connect, click to get the information that is out there. Mobile internet devices (MIDs), are the new tweeners... between the laptops and the PDAs. Eee PCs and other little cheap entry portals are confusing things and bringing down prices, coming to places like Wal-Mart.
Long-term disruptions are harder to understand than short-term changes, especially tech changes. We're going through the second revolution. The first was the tech/internet and this is the second, to cloud computing.
Boo, boogly-googly hoo-hoo-hoo.
Both will recover.
I'm sure they will find your photo's as well.
Sorry....
Posted by: janet | January 29, 2008 at 12:53 PM
I'm so sorry about your laptop. Usually the computer experts can recover stuff. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.
I'm still recovering from my bad crash. I keep figuring out that I've lost more and more little things - addresses, misc.notes, passwords, all sorts of things.
Posted by: Lauri | January 30, 2008 at 07:00 AM
Along with this second tech revolution comes some cool mobile advertising too. Small players like Ringleader Digital are making huge strides in the mobile advertising arena which is expected to reach revenues of $2.3 billion in the U.S. alone by 2012!
Posted by: Taryn | February 05, 2008 at 09:43 AM