You can listen to this episode on our Pixel Clicks Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Your weekly dose of PCP is back! After taking a week off due to technical difficulties (everyone was playing Metal Gear), the guys are back to talk about Apple’s new “innovations” in tech, Mad Max, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom
When it comes to decency, the majority understand that there are things considered inappropriate for some, usually when speaking of children. This kind of censorship has innate problems in that far too often what’s deemed inappropriate is decided by the few instead of the rightful majority. Another and probably even more serious problem is that
Most of us have probably seen the previously ubiquitous all-white background commercial regarding how a trendy, young, and known actor who represents an Apple computer is so different from the stodgy, suit & tie, middle aged lesser known actor portraying a PC. At first I treated this series of commercials with the same level of regard as I would water coming out of the faucet. But in the past couple of years as I’ve been interested in the computer market and trying to design a desktop computer for myself, the ad campaign has haunted my thoughts.
This commercial had returned to me as I began to consider whether or not people actually cared about this supposed ongoing argument between Macs and PCs. The acronym PC is after all just personal computer, and are not Macs computers for personal use? Truly this is just a commercial that was meant to create opposition and conflict between different computer users, rather an “us versus them” attitude, all for the sake of crafting brand loyalty. In the market for computers, competition for consumers should be won and lost based on the performance and price of their products. There should not be any hesitance to switch computer brands just because you had previously purchased from “x” brand. It is similar to not being resistant to buying honey wheat bread if you bought nine grain wheat bread before.
When Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone, many people were skeptical about the on-screen virtual keyboard. Most were already used to a physical keypad. This is especially true for Blackberry users. While many iPhone users have trained their thumbs to accept the virtual keyboard, there are still some that need the real thing.
When something as shiny and precious as the iPad 2 is released, many will go to great lengths to keep it in pristine condition. Leave it to the folks at G-Form to create an iPad 2 case keeps the device within completely unharmed, even when run over by a car. So now when our computer