November 2011
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Ocean, Trust
On his podcast with Dan Benjamin The Talk Show, episode #68, John Gruber said, of the way he views the Kindle Fire’s competitive position relative to the iPad:
The Fire is way more interesting, because it’s not an iPad rip-off. I mean, clearly it’s following the path that the iPad blazed in terms of basic form factor, and that the key to tablet computing is touch-based...
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GTD Rebirth Cycle
Phase 1. Use a GTD system. It works well. Things are getting done, nothing is being forgotten, and you’re feeling less stress. Life is good in Phase 1.
Phase 2. You grow confidence in your system. So much confidence that you throw new tasks into it with giddy abandon. Adding tasks to the system starts to give you the same feeling of accomplishment as actually completing the task. (This is...
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Future of Siri
The API for developers to interact with Siri will be in the cloud.
Siri requests are processed in the cloud, so the shortest path from Siri to apps is within iCloud.
This will require apps to be integrated with iCloud. Siri API will be a part of the iCloud API.
How this could work:
An iPhone user speaks to Siri.
Siri in the cloud deciphers the user’s speech, and figures out that the...