I solemnly swear

A guy who is coming back to India to perform the last rites of his father is left stranded at Paris airport by Air France just because he was Indian.

http://jayharishshah.blogspot.sg/2013/10/one-night-in-paris.html


After having had seen such racial discrimination with my own eyes and heart by European Airlines (Finn Air and KLM) I vow to avoid flying European Airlines even if I have to take a longer flight or pay some extra money to avoid them.

IOS 7

Till IOS 6 generating a genius playlist from a song used to be one click process (fast and useful).

(Unless I am missing some other shortcut) IOS 7 onwards its “redesigned” to a two-step process, Create -> Genius Playlist, the menu after pressing Create BTW has just two options 1. Genius Playlist 2.Cancel

It is beyond me that what UI design principle says this is an improvement.

I can go on and on about the "redesign" of IOS but I guess I can find better ways to waste my time. IOS7 has made me believe Apple Inc. has robbed me of my money and Steve Jobs was "Apple Inc.".

This World is going up in flames

Solitary

     One of those days when I am sick, lonely, dull and left alone by everybody around me.

I just want to get a bike and go riding on PCH to clear my head and heart.

Org Chart

Disclaimer : I do not own this image, the copyrights are held by it's owners. 

Calm

   About ten months ago (Sept-Oct 2012) I was using the Delhi Metro for the major part of my two hour commute to work, since I took it around noon from one of the early stops and got down very near to one of the last stops I was always assured a preferred seat for the entire journey.

Everyday for almost all of the one and a half hours of that journey I had Bach, Mozart and Beethoven blasting through my ears, an equally polished novel in my hands, the almost perfect cold air of the air conditioning on my skin and my mind totally immersed in the characters of the story. In July 2013 I am really really missing the calm and soothe of those one and a half hours in my life.

Ciao

This is how I feel about IOS7

When it comes to making the best phone in the market Apple has really lost it to Android this time and going by IOS7 I think they have accepted that (they can no longer)/(they don't want to) compete with the pace of innovation/improvements of Android or the companies making Android phones. They have ruled and milked the market of the smartphone money as much as they could and now probably it is better to move onto a new product line, the obvious guess is wearable computing. No matter how good they make the "design" on Iphone 5S/6 they have lost the battle of innovation in software and hardware specifications wise Apple has always been lacking with respect to it's competitors. Their biggest advantage had been "Design" and the strength of rock solid fundamentals in the execution of the design. But six years after Apple launched it's first Iphone almost every company has developed a good/better phone, a phone which offers much more value for money than a Iphone (even if it's the best design). Their app store advantage counts for nothing now that all the apps 99.99% people use are available even on Blackberry's platform. Of course, those idiots at CNET.com (who mistake themselves for being nerds/geeks just because they are all ugly) will still tell you that Iphone is the single most important piece of Engineering marvel the world has ever seen, but either they are stupid fan boys or paid propagandists. Either way the truth will remain that Iphone is no longer the best smartphone in the market, sure it will compete among all other good smartphones but it surely isn't the king anymore. 

In no way should Apple as a company be written off, they have made impressive come backs several times in their history, this time around they even have the advantage of possessing a war chest of billions of dollars. Any wise man from the technology industry will make a bet confidently that mostly behind the scenes they are investing their money on developing a newer dimension to everyday computing. But in all probability their current proof of excellence the Iphone is probably nearing it's retirement as the work horse of the company.

Ciao