Apple-Samsung Saagaa .. Technology at risk ..

Definetly a major Win for Apple.After the verdict my emails and facebook were flooded with mixed emotions. Few liked the verdict as if they played a major role in the company itself and few were disappointment. I am not yet sure how I feel.

Whenever I think of Apple , first thing that comes to my mind is "arrogance" , "secretive culture" , "polished campaigns" , kind of a superior authority who thinks there customers are always wrong , "dumb" for that matter.

With Samsung and HTC One coming along and consumers moving away they just couldnt take the pain.Couldnt discover anything fascinating so

just decided to vobble on there

patent rights. I think Apple's ultimate targer is Android. The Samsung-Apple verdict was a good for Microsoft's Windows Phone. They were so incredibly happy that I heard they even tweeted about it.



Well, so what all these things really mean to us. First let me define US. When I say us, I mean we the consumers and then we the developers.So we the consumers looks like are not suppose to experience anything new or incredibly different. When I bought HTC One, I was fascinated with the whole experience , the UI , the interactions , amazing is the word for it. WHen I saw Samsung Galaxy I had similar reactions. So with all this drama am I again going to be forced to see that IE icon on my screen and use it even if I hate it and may be pay for some stupid upgrades or if you dont want that then may be pay some ridiculous about for an Apple product and if even you dont exactly get why it is so pricy still pretend as if it is cool, just to be part of "that" crowd.





With n going dramas of different browsers ,different engine and different OS, us the developers never had a good time with any of them. I just forsee the matter getting worse as if no one comes up with a pattern then it might get more challenging and then us the consumers might often get more messages saying , we do not support this version and blah blah blah





I strongly feel, that if any patent or rather on that matter any two competitors interfere in a growing technology it should be strongly discouraged. In today's world where we all are starving to achieve something new does it really matters whether some freaky layout is similar. That reminds me , doesnt all the touchpads have similar layout ?





I heard yesterday google and Apple are talking about patents . Wonder what that will bring up next.. but for now its Microsoft who is on the lead... so YAY Microsoft!!!

Dinner Date ...

Few days back I had dinner with a close friend of mine. Usually, we friends end up taking a to-go and eat at my home watching TV. That reminds me, recently I bought a 59” TV with a 3-D view, it is just awesome. Well, getting back to my story, so I was having dinner with my friend and I realized we were having a conversation, what we were talking about isn’t important, but the fact we were talking to each other sharing few stories and not staring at that idiot box made me realize what all I was missing after I got that idiot box. This made me think even more, now-a-days I don’t call my friends that often, we have our what-so-ever communication or know about what is happening in our lives through facebook. Sometimes I make sure I “like” there comments or pics, sometimes I just ignore doing that extra step (see getting that lazy). Regardless, what that is or means , we have just skipped the part of “talking to each other”.
I am not much of a person who will share my life in facebook, I hate doing that , but I always make sure to log in facebook to know what’s happening with my friends. Weird, isn’t it why not just call. Am I getting lazier. And to top it all, my friends also are equally into it. I think everyone will agree to this, if you want to know where your friend is just login to facebook  . Also, not to mention few of my friends have started talking to their husband/wives or better-half on facebook. One of my friend even wrote on his fiancée wall, “ITS TIME” 10 seconds before getting married and then we idiots followed the drama congratulating them. HILLARIOUS!!!
All this makes me wonder , with we moving towards the “technology world” are we sacrificing those wonderful things around us which we might regret later. Now a days if you tell people to cut down on facebook and try to meet people socially, the response we get is we are going backwards again. Is that true? Or is it something we all should stop and think about for a minute.
I use to be the one who talks for hours and listen for ages from my friends. I remember my Mom use to say someday that idiot box is going to rule the world, and I could see my friends just staring at that TV  I wonder whether it has already happened. I wonder me buying this awesome TV was a mistake. I wonder whether facebook is really a social website or is something who is making us more lazy. I cant believe people updating there website without fail everyday but not calling friends or even for that matter their families.
Hmm.. something to think about….. I guess…….

What Am I Cribbing About?

Last two days I realized a decent truth of my life. I am a working professional, who like any other professionals crib about all the inventions that have happened for the past decade. I happened to watch a show “Hilarious” from a stand-up comedian Louis C.K.and out of no-where followed it with a complete opposite genre, a Hindi movie Kabul Express and as if I was not done, followed my parade with a documentary from North Koreans. I am not sure what message the movie wanted to give to the audience or even if the director intended to give any message, but I think the show Hilarious and the documentary had already taken me to a world of reality-check and Kabul-Express just gave the last push. It was as if some external force trying to talk to me.
I have been to US now for 5 years and I think I have the issues what I like to call as “no-problem” issues. Let me explain this further, recently I had been to California. All said and done my excuse for delaying my trip was, it is a long flight from Raleigh, North Carolina and I had just come from India which is again 18 hours long flight. (CAUTION: My just been to India was like a month back). So looks like I was cribbing about six hours long flights which in olden times use to take 30 days with a life threatening risk involved. Also, to add to it I did not like the one hour lay-over between my connecting flights. I also sometime crib about usual delayed flights and wait on the runway and all kinds of stuff that one can image but dude after the delay; I just flew to my destination. I was actually sitting on a chair in the air. Hhh.. I guess I never thought of these things till now. I don’t think I am here to blame, because since I was born I have enjoyed this luxury. Flying is like an obvious thing for me. I can’t drive to a place which is like miles away, I have to fly.
Do you remember the days when we had a single phone at home, and that was the only point of contact to rest of the world? I don’t, because I never lived it. Mobile is like a necessity for me. When I went to India, the first thing my brother handed to me was a mobile with a pre-paid card. Like any other “youngster” in the town, I complain about the range, the data plan, and the network issues and so on and so forth.
Louis C.K in his show said “Dude, if it bothers you so much, go create your own” and all of a sudden there was a long awaited respect that came to my mind for Dr.Martin Cooper and Wright Brothers . Something else also comes to my mind here, I have been to Wright Brothers National Memorial which is in North Carolina, have seen all those gliders and flying machines of 19’s with appreciation but the moment I sit on a plane, I complain.
So now that I have told about my ugly “no-problem” issues, let me highlight one more thing which category of people have these issues, the one’s who really have no-issues at all. Come on... there are a set of people on this earth who fear or rather are not allowed to walk down the streets as they wish. Problems that we deal are something that they haven’t yet imagined is ever possible. They have different problems to deal with like, am I going to live today, is my family going to die, will I eat today. Women have complete different set of issues. They fear their marriage, something that every girl dreams about here in US and back in my home town since a teenager. The documentary that I watched showed me the fear that these people live in, the pain that has become an everyday affair for them.
I always say, India is my Janam-Bhumi and America is my Karma-Bhumi. I am glad both have given me the best of their worlds. I am blessed with an excellent combination of culture and freedom.I am proud to be an Indian and happy to be in US. Now, when I look back, I ask myself just one thing, seriously what exactly am I cribbing about?