This post is pretty much out of place here but I just went through a bunch of new trailers for some of the upcoming 2012 movies and they’re actually pretty good. I’ll embed each of them and give a little discussion as to what happened prior to what is shown on each trailer.
The Dark Knight Rises - Official Teaser Trailer #2
Pretty much one of the most anticipated movies of 2012, The Dark Knight Rises is the 3rd (and final?) installment of Nolan’s Batman franchise. The series is know for its astounding characters (Joker anyone?) and here’s to hoping that Selina Kyle’s (Catwoman) and Bane’s characters will not disappoint. I wonder if Gordon-Levitt is Robin in this film?
Perhaps the 'pay this, pay that' scheme of Apple before allowing developers to create apps for iDevices is the reason why iOS apps are significantly better than Android's.
When people dish out huge sums of money, they tend to make the most out of it. And that's maybe what leads to beautiful, polished iOS applications.
Google’s annual Zeitgeist aims to show the stuff that mattered throughout the year by analyzing queries from their Search product. As 2011 comes to a close it was only a matter of time before Google released this year’s edition.
Here are my thoughts on some of the finalist:
Rebecca Black
Black was more popular than Lady Gaga, for 2 weeks anyway.
Google+
The queries for Google+ are pretty dumb e.g. ‘google earth plus’, ‘google chrome plus’, ‘chrome plus’ and ‘msn plus’(really?)
Ryan Dunn
I never knew that the man was dead until I saw this year’s Zeitgeist. My bad, Rest in peace Ryan.
Casey Anthony
This didn’t come as shocking to me or anyone really if you consider the media attention and sensationalism surrounding the trial.
iPhone 5
There’s a little irony here since queries for the nonexistent phone greatly outnumbered those for the iPhone 4S. :)
Adele
This young lady is perhaps one of the most talented musicians of our generation. Not surprised that she’s on the top 10.
東京 電力(TEPCO)
Comparing 'TEPCO' to 'Pizza' searches? C'mon Google, you can do better than that.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was more popular than Barack Obama this year.
iPad 2
Steve and his babies (one still in conception) are all in the top 10, what more can I say? Long live Steve.
Nothing stirs the public attention more than a good old privacy intrusion (and chock full of media coverage). The Carrier IQ debacle went full swing yesterday and the bigwigs are doing their best to distance themselves from this looming privacy disaster though complete denials and somewhat soft confirmations.
And if you'll check http://www.carrieriq.com/ the company claims that it has installed the program on more than 141 million devices (and still counting).
Phone 'Rootkit' Maker Carrier IQ May Have Violated Wiretap Law In Millions Of Cases - Forbes http://onforb.es/rZxmgv
AT&T and Sprint admitted that they're using Carrier IQ but not for the purposes that everyone (starting with Eckhart) assumes. While Verizon, Nokia and Research in Motion are quick to deny that they're using Carrier IQ software on their handsets.
It's important to note that manufacturers are not the primary groups to blame though because carriers are the ones deciding to put CarrierIQ software in the handset offerings. Though they're necessarily not blameless 'cause still at fault for not disclosing the fact that there's a big brother software on their handsets. This is bad, really bad.
Will update this post as this story develop throughout the day.
It looks like Nick Bilton is on a divine crusade of some sort. A crusade that may rid us of the baseless protocols of air travel.
Perhaps the 'pay this, pay that' scheme of Apple before allowing developers to create apps for iDevices is the reason why iOS apps are significantly better than Android's.