Harry Potter and the Application

This week in the Wired Magazine I read about the newly released  Apple application called Harry Potter. Harry Potter as we all know is a popular fictional book character and movie. The app is interesting because you can perform spells with your wand via the touch screen. The app has the ability to sort you to a house as in the book and also like the book and movie you can learn different spells. For example if you are in the Gryffindor House you learn a different set of spells than if you are in the Slytherin House. This feature gives a lot of variety to the app.

 Also you can “duel” against the computer in the application  or if your friends also has the app then you can “duel” against them. People from Gryffindor House are generally well rounded while Slytherin House uses dark magic or have more of an offensive mind set and the application can give you many different strategies  when “dueling” against your friends.

However the app lacks some clarity with instructions. For example when being played there can be a delay of a few minutes to successfully complete the spell. Furthermore, the dueling can lag which can lead to some crashed games. The app costs $2.99. Since I am not a Harry Potter fan the app is not so appealing to me because I don’t know all the spells and it doesn’t have a lot of replay value for me.

Has Google gone too far?

This week in the Wired Magazine I read about the too quick expansion of Google. As we all know Google in the past 5 years has become a very successful company. Google is no longer a search engine company because it has branched out into many other sectors of the computer and communications technology market such as telephones, internet provider and computer operating software. Google will soon be releasing a software based product for the PC. This is to compete with their biggest rivals , Microsoft and Apple.

The new Google software is different because it just uses the internet and could replace Word, Powerpoint, Excel, or even iTunes in the long term. Sounds weird right? It is very bizarre but Google being Google have been so innovative that they have made a PowerPoint and Word Station called Google Docs, all which runs off the internet. Handy for the on-the-go type of person !

However a big problem with the Google server is that it crashes too often, an example of this was the crash in 2009 of Gmail (also know as Google Mail). The Google Mail server crashed and even though nothing was lost, it caused problems for people that had important emails or files. Imagine a whole computer losing its files, its annoying and it shouldn’t happen, and you cannot back up your files because its all on the internet.

I think that Google are expanding way too fast. They are taking too many risks. They should take their time with their software development and try to make it non crashable Faster search engines, better phones, safer Gmail servers or even a more Windows esque Google Docs would be a better investment for Google. The rapid growth of the Google is good but in this case I think Google could make a stupid investment and lose millions of dollars.

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So as you have seen i have been talking about the Droid on my last few posts. The Droid is a smart phone that it is very similar to the Iphone. It has an Touch screen, can run apps and can play music etc. So why not get the Droid its similar price, similar in just about every aspect.  The reason the switch between  the Iphone and droid  wont be instant, like Myspace users going to Facebook, is that getting the droid will be looked upon as being uncool. Yes its like an Ipod and The Zune. The Zune is the Microsoft answer to the Ipod which when I had it was uncool because the Ipod is an recognized product. Similar to the droid. It wont be cool enough for the first launch of it. Yes people will buy it because the will want to be different etc but the Iphone User wont switch because of the certain apps the Iphone has vs the Droid apps.  Some apps like Instapaper, games, and Pandora. These apps along with email is not yet accessible. Also the Droid, well the Motorola which is currently the best Droid to date, ways more which is an annoying feature, plus the keyboard is virtually useless because you are going to type via the touch screen and not use the keyboard.

 

Yet there's  a debate that is an interesting one. Well the Popular apps move over when  the droid becomes more popular. Its faster the Iphone with an nicer resolution of a screen so why not change right now? Because of the popularity of the Iphone a small portion of people know what a droid is and what it does. A larger portion knows what an Iphone is and there for it will still dominate the Smartphone industry untill the droid has enough time introduce its self into the market.

 

Furthermore, since I have none I would go for the Iphone. Yes the droid seems to be faster, nicer quality screen but the Iphone is special to me because I have an itunes acount therefore easer to put music on and getting apps  which makes it an awfully more convenient . Also having an Iphone is a cool/trendy thing, in which I don’t want to look uncool, as the droid is a cool phone but not as cool as the Iphone. But having an Droid would be a cool to see it but at the moment I would stick to the Iphone.

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Everybody wants to make money fastly and cheaply but some people will break or bend the law or rules made by the superiors. Firstly people have and always will lie, cheat, and steal to better them self's its an common fact. People are molded into who they are based on there and this was an common idea by English Philosophers John Locke. The Corporation uses video montage, fly on the wall and archival footage to portray the corporation as a money greedy thing. The main objective is money. The corporation CEO's don’t care the working conditions , the pay and profit is what they care for. They don’t care how bad there working conditions like sanitation. If the sanitation is bad then they will get sick and since they have no benefits then they  will spread the dies and could because an Epidemic because the heath service is poor or they don’t have the proper money to got to the doctor. During the Movie the corporation. We see a few minutes of a factory in the Honduras they use the method of Jiggly Camera, this gives us a POV or Point Of view, this empiszes the fact of bad conditions. All we see is sowing machines and little light and a seat. The governments of the countries know whats happening because if I can see what's happening in the factory's they are bound to know. As I said earlier, since the economy is on a surge for the moment the government will keep it running. Furthermore with Nike earning around 1.50 billion dollars there's no stopping them, People have tired to stop the giants but you cant because they are an donamint company. People will all ways know Nike for the reason its encrypted in our heads. Profit is more important then

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The corporation disguises  its self by acting as a god send or a good smarten company in poor  undeveloped countries. furthermore they provide long hour, poor pay and very bad working  conditioning. Devolving  countries such as China, Honduras  Brazil and Ecuador  need as much business as they can receive so they let Big Clothing, Carpet, or other big companies allowed into their countries so there economy can grow. The government will not interfere with the way the business conducts its business as in the working conditions, pay or long hours of work. This provides the business flexibility. In China were the labor is cheap they have set up  Nike Towns so they provide housing which makes the company look like a smarten company and provides an good image but when you go into an factory its an completely different situation. During the Movie "The Corporation" some people go into an factory in Central America I am presuming Honduras  , and they get shouted at by the owner because he knows that he is breaking the law but still does it because his incentives are different because he wants money. Then when the company has raised the standard of living or the overall income per person they will leave and find a new desperate place and the process starts again. Then the old Nike towns etc  will be closed and then the economy will slowly dry up, resulting in the same situation but at  a later date, then the Nike will come back again and it will start again. With the same working conditions and its just unfair but this will keep happening because Nike has been doing this for the last 10 years. Finally, government intervention wont happen due to the fact that they income per person will increase and then the economy for a time will be on the rise. Furthermore the bad pay, bad working conditions and long hours wont effect the government or the company.                      

Android vs Iphone

Android vs Iphone

This week in the wired magazine I was reading about the Iphone and its newest completion call the Android .The Android and the Iphone are very similar. The similarities are that they both have touch screen,applications,mp3 capability and you can also call people. The major difference is that the Iphone can run one application at a time. So if your want too play an game on your Iphone and simultaneously go on Facebook you cant, while the android you can so more business companies are going to be attracted to that aspect. Also the operating system is being created by Google, so the rise of this company is starting to scare people. First it was just an search engine now it has evolved into an music industry ( gives you direct links to bands and you can play songs off your Gmail account),phone operating system, and an online book store for the kindle.

The android and the Iphone are with out a doubt two extremely good phones.  The iphone has its advantages because of the applications with around 90,000 apps there’s plenty of choice but the new developers are finding it hard to put there apps up because Apple have rejected numerous ideas and also since there’s around 90,000 applications its going to be hard to get the exposure. I now this for a factor because some of my friends have an Iphone or Ipod touch which boasts the applications aswell. The  fact is that they all have similar applications. Tap Tap, Shazam, the Facebook app, etc they all have them so if you cant reach the customer with your app you will be put off. This is where the Andriod comes in. The android has a new Apps store with just 3,000 apps. So all the developers that cant make in at Apple will turn there attention to the Android market because they will get paid for  there services even if people dont purchase  there app; unlike apple where they only make money off when some one buys it. 

I think that google is becoming a dominate market force. It has beat Yahoo, Bing, and Ask on the search engine, it has taken the music industry and is starting to develop phone software. If I was in Microsoft or Apple, I would be scared for the fact that  Google could have the potential to start dominating different sectors. So instead of Apple vs Microsoft I feel that it has gone into a three way tie with Google so its an triple threat match. If Google starts expanding or making innovative ideas like the android operating system, or the online book store I feel that apple and Microsoft wont be apple to compete anymore.

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1. The corporation disguises  its self by acting as a god send or a good smarten company in poor  undeveloped countries and then  and they also provide long hour, poor pay and very bad working  conditioning. Devolving Countries need as much business as they can receive so they let Big Clothing, Carpet, or other big companies allowed into there countries so there economy can grow. The government will not interfere with the way the business conducts its business as in the working conditions, pay or long hours of work. This Provides the business flexibility. In China were the labor is cheap they have set up  Nike Towns so they provide housing which makes the company look like an smarten company and provides an good image but when you go into an factory its an completely different situation. During the Movie "The Corporation" some people go into an factory in Asia I am presuming china, and they get shouted at by the owner because he knows that he is breaking the law but still does it because his incentives are different because he wants money. Then when the company has raised the standard of living or the overall income per person they will leave and find a new desperate place and the process starts again. Then the old Nike towns etc  will be closed and then the economy will slowly dry up, resulting in the same situation but at  a later date, then the Nike will come back again and it will start again. With the same working conditions and its just unfair but this will keep happening because Nike has been doing this for the last 10 years. Finally, government intervention wont happen due to the fact that they income per person will increase and then the economy for a time will be on the rise. Furthermore the bad pay, bad working conditions and long hours wont effect the government or the company.