Notes From The Cave

I watched the Apple iPhone event this afternoon and found all the emphasis on the cameras to be over the top. I know that Google has received praise for the cameras in the Pixels so I get that Apple wanted to proclaim loudly they have the best camera. I am not a camera nerd, all I want is the camera on my phone to take decent pictures, which it does. I don’t care about all the whizzywigs, and I wouldn’t buy a smartphone because it has the best camera. It feels like Apple is still playing the features game to convince people to throw down $1k on their phones, case in point, the portion of the event that got into the details of the A13 processor.

When I look at this comparison of phones, I am drawn to the Pixel 3A XL because it has enough features for the lowest price.

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I wonder if I am the only person who thinks Apple should do the same thing they did with the iPod and make it work standalone or with Windows? The tie to iPhone inhibits sales, in my opinion. The iPod didn’t really take off until it started working with Windows.

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Happy Apple event day! Does the Internet have holidays?

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What exactly is personal about the personal computer?

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Politico:

The irony is that more democracy—ushered in by social media and the Internet, where information flows more freely than ever before—is what has unmoored our politics, and is leading us towards authoritarianism.

The Founders of the United States did not consider democracy as the best form of government, which is why they created a Republic. We have been dismantling their invention ever since.

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Emotional programming has been happening since Gutenberg. It is what advertising is all about, and the Internet is the optimal platform for emotional programming. It takes constant diligence to recognize when you are being manipulated and for many that is just too much work.

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