Is Apple The New SPECTRE In Technology?

by AG on February 4, 2010

Apple iPad

Do you remember SPECTRE in those James Bond movies and novels?

SPECTRE stands for SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.

Have a look at the Wikipedia article about SPECTRE:

It should be noted that the goal of world domination was only ever stated in You Only Live Twice..

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Organizational discipline is notoriously draconian with the penalty for disobedience or failure being death. As quoted by Blofeld on several occasions: “This organization does not tolerate failure”. Furthermore, to heighten the impact of the executions, Blofeld often chooses to focus attention on an innocent member, making it appear his death is imminent, only to suddenly strike down the actual target when that person is off guard.

Well, somehow this reminds me of Apple.

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It’s A Technology War (No More!)

January 25, 2010
Amazon Kindle

The recent article “Amazon invites developers to come up with Apps for Kindle” led me to some more considerations on the rumored Apple tablet.
Let’s start with a quick recap of what Amazon announced last Thursday:
The Kindle Development Kit enables developers to build active content that leverages Kindle’s unique combination of seamless and invisible 3G wireless [...]

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Turn Your Blog And Twitter Into An iPhone Application

January 21, 2010
MotherApp

As you may have noticed there are lot of companies launching dedicated iPhone applications for their businesses. Audi, FCBmobile, CocaCola, just to name afew.
Wouldn’t it be a great idea to build an iPhone application being able to deliver the content of your blog or twitter account? Sure it may be.
Well, in order to do that you [...]

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Ride The Tablet Way

January 12, 2010
Artwork on Apple rumored Tablet PC

One of the most discussed trends at CES 2010 was the Tablet PC.

Every single hardware manufacturer I have met there has announced or will announce a Tablet PC in the near future.

From an industry point of view, tablets are not new to the market.

They have been sitting there for such a long time with very low market success due to several factors. First of all they have always been expensive, bulky, almost unusable a with a very very small battery life.

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UXconference 2009 – UX and Social Networks

December 16, 2009

This is the presentation I gave a few weeks ago at the UXconference 2009.

There were a lot of great presentation and it was a fantastic event that I hope to attend again in 2010.

As I usually do the presentation need some details in order to be better understood. Below you will find some comments on the slides.

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Mobile 3TV – A Few Considerations

December 15, 2009

“Your application is Ready for Sale”
This was the subject of the message I received from Apple on Friday 4th. The Mobile 3TV was approved by Apple and was available for download from the Italian Apple Store.
This was great news for us. We had announced the future availability of this to our customer some time ago [...]

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MD Touch – A New Baby On The Shelves

November 25, 2009

In the past months my team has worked on a new touch based mobile phone called MD Touch.
It is now in the stores.
I am quite happy of what we were able to deliver in such little time.

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MomoDesign MD-300H

November 6, 2009

We launched this in the past and I did not notice it was reviewed!
I still remember we all had a great time designing this, and thanks to Lavinia, Guido, Mauro, and Adam!

Momo Design MD-300H from higui on Vimeo.

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Bookmarks for May 18th

October 20, 2009

These are some interesting links I would like to share.

Icones.pro, la plus grande collection d'images PNG et d'icônes –
50 Useful Tools and Generators for Easy CSS Development : Speckyboy Design Magazine –
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
The 50 Best Premium WordPress Themes [...]

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DroidDoes

October 18, 2009
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Android, Still A Missed Opportunity

August 3, 2009

Just to be clear from the beginning: I am definitely a big fan of Android Devices.
I have played a lot with the first G1 device, went through the HTC Magic and I am now playing with a Samsung Galaxy device.
Anyway I think that all of the vendors out there are missing a huge opportunity.
We all [...]

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ExperienceCamp09 Milan – My Speech

May 22, 2009

Mobile User Experience Dealing With Big Numbers
View more PDF documents from dotdust.

This is the speech I gave yesterday at the ExperienceCamp09 in Milan.
I had a wonderful time and I wish to thank Luca Mascaro, Nicola Mattina and Stefano Mizzella for being such great hosts.
Guys, see you next time!

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Tonchidot’s Sekai Camera iPhone Application

May 19, 2009

Sometimes I happen to miss something relevant.
This is a fantastic concept and application. Something I would like to investigate for the future of mobile applications.

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An iPhone As A Baby Monitor… Or Use It As A Spy Device

March 19, 2009

I have been working into Innovation for a long time and part of my day job was trying to understand which side use our customers could make of the technology, product or service I was analyzing.
One of the golden rules is that users are always more creative than you. They will always find different ways [...]

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