Now here I am many birthday candles later with another new "tablet":
It's a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0).
We're breaking ground tomorrow on a new custom home and it looks like I'll be spending a fair amount of my semi-retired time on-site. From what I'm told a "tablet" is the new clipboard, the universal symbol that says, "Don't ask me to actually DO anything. I'm just a supervisor."
So far my impression is it's very intuitive, which is good because if it wasn't, this old Neanderthal would simply be the proud owner of a Samsung Rock. I had an early iPad and didn't care for it because it was too big to lug around. This is about the size of a Kindle.....juuuuust right.
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If you're on the waiting list for a new iPhone 5 your wait just got a little longer. It seems that last night there was a big riot at one of the Foxconn factories in China that makes components for Apple:
The plant employs 79,000 workers and it took 5,000 riot police to restore order. The facility is closed for at least today. If there's a silver lining in this (for the US) it's that Chinese workers are getting restless and demanding better pay and working conditions. Maybe we'll see a few of those outsourced jobs start to come back home?
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The TV news (?) this morning was all abuzz about who wore what to the Emmy Awards last night. What caught my eye/ear was they kept saying "....and it looked like she was wearing Jimmy Choo shoes."
So how can you tell? Is there some identifying logo on there somewhere? I mean, if you're wearing the shoes, and your foot is covering the name, how would anyone know? I guess in glitzy Hollywood this is a big status symbol, but where I'm from this just screams, "Look at me! I just dropped a THOUSAND bucks on a pair of shoes. How dumb am I?" I wanna know who Jimmy Choo's VP Sales/Marketing is. He's good. Really good!
Guess I'd better go do something constructive. Have a good day everyone.
S
