Marco’s Posterous

Over twee dagen is het zover. Op zaterdag 6 maart is er Barcamp in Antwerpen. Voor mij de eerste keer dat ik dit fenomeen mee mag maken.

First a disclaimer: this is my own opinion and no official Vodafone statement:

According to this posterous post and this (dutch) newsbit

Jens Schult-Bockum (JSB), CEO of Vodafone Netherlands has said that "Vodafone made a huge mistake by not winning the iPhone deal" two years ago. At that time, JSB was Global Director of Terminals at Vodafone Group. Fast forward to 2009. JSB is now CEO of Vodafone Netherlands. In the UK the exclusive iPhone deal with O2 has ended and at the (very) last moment, Vodafone UK joined Orange in carrying the iPhone for 2010.

I'm assuming that the T-Mobile exclusivity deal in the Netherlands (and Germany) is going to end in 2010 as well. Add to that the JSB statement and it's not that difficult to figure out that it is very possible that Vodafone Netherlands (and Germany) will join the iPhone deal in the very near future.

That's positive. More choices for the user. With the better network, Vodafone might easily collect convert T-mobile users to switch. Vodafone360 will get its own iPhone app as well, albeit limited in functionality. However, if the iPhone comes to Vodafone, that won't be an issue anymore and Vodafone360 may be a full-fledged service. (Not sure how they will handle this technically, with the sandbox application model in the iPhone)

A lot of times you hear people (myself included) say the iPhone is great but the T-Mobile network sucks. Well, the above may make those users happier :-)

Exciting times ahead? You bet. Let's just say the silly season (sic) has begun.

According to theAppleBlog, sales of SL are double that of Leopard.

Most will agree that the price is pushing sales high, but I also think Leopard was just not good enough. At least in my case, and talking to other Apple users, a lot of them aren't (weren't) really happy with Leopard.

Leopard was suffering from "Windows syndrome". Being bloated and slow. Some of it due to carrying legacy PowerPC support, some of it by feature creep and unoptimized code. In SL there are still some loops open, but that is mostly in the application area. (iTunes is still carbon for
instance). That will change in due time (I predict an "iMovie08" makeover for iTunes next year)

The OS is finally mature :-)

Today is a sad day, Phil Collins can never play the drums again because of a spinal injury, he said in an interview.
 
To honor the man, here is a clip of his farewell tour in 2006. Playing In The Air tonight, with possibly the best drum solo ever in a pop song. Didn't everyone airdrum to that?
 

 
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Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar (7' Edit).mp3 (5735 KB)

I'm going to try and post a Thank God It's Friday! Music tip every week
as of today.
 
Today: Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar
Wiki Excerpt:
Fuck Buttons is a two-piece experimental group formed in Bristol,
England in early 2004 by Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power.
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_Buttons

I remember Tetsuo: Body Hammer (the second part) and here is the third Tetsuo movie, the first time it's in english:
 

More info about Shinya Tsukamoto on wiki

This is how I am characterized on the internet.
 
Try it yourself: http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.html