Thoughts from a Techie

This is the season for developers' conferences - big events at the Moscone. Starting with Apple's WWDC 2014, keynote address this morning in my timezone. As usual, I didn't stay up for Apple conferences. Simply not a big fan. Plus streaming requires QuickTime, which is pretty useless besides the streaming itself. So I waited for the whole keynote to be available on Apple Events, installed QuickTime (really Apple?), sit back and enjoyed. And it was a pretty enjoyable keynote. Craig Federighi certainly knows how to crack people up with OS X naming. The whole Handoff setup is absolutely brilliant. And of course let's not forget Swift. (Makes me immediately think of Taylor Swift. No big deal.) Except the comparisons. Seems like they do it every year without fail. When they talk about OS X, they compare with Windows. When they talk about iOS, they compare with Android. And they only, and always, talk about latest version's adoption. OS X Mavericks vs Windows 8. i...

Not a Google event so I'm not going to post my live blog here. First thing, I'm really frustrated at Apple for not providing a livestream. It boasted its own iTunes Festival being livestreamed to 100 countries, yet it couldn't provide the same for its own major event. Well one positive consequence of this is the huge amount of interaction due to the lack of livestream (heck, I can't type that fast watching a livestream!), but still there's much to be desired. Other than that, as with any other Apple products events, it's packed with a lot of hoo-hahs - 64-bit chip in a phone, fingerprint recognition, camera with burst, slow-mo, stabilization, fine-tuned exposure, etc. Seems to be a large focus on the "it just works" kind of stuff! Well I foresee a lot of Google+ Auto-Awesomes from this kind of camera. And well since there's no livestream I switched to my favorite Taylor Swift music to kind of escape the quiet and creepy night (it's 1am wher...