Have you also done anything about trying to find out why you have trouble focusing? I read some older article from your blog also and got the feeling you have been taking yourself as a static thing and that the things around you need to change for you to feel better. Or did i get that wrong?
Interesting view. I would myself say I've tried a lot of things and I wish I could be contempt with what I have, but it just never works out this way. However I'm totally open for suggestions, since I'm really willing to try anything (but "suck it up").
Also I have tried figuring out what's wrong/different about me and I have no answer. I've actually have had situations where I'm grateful for having a job at all, but the positivity only lasts a few weeks.
I have to say the Topre tenkeyless is amazing. I was just killing time in a shop before traveling and fell in love with it. Two of my colleagues who i was pairing a lot with ended up buying the same keyboards. The only thing that took me some time to adjust to, was the missing enter key on the numpad. I would hit right arrow and then wait for a second before realizing. But it's very much worth it for the smaller travel to mouse.
It's a bit disappointing when "the world" and "USA" are used interchangeably. The US market is fairly small. Things are quite different in other places.
That’s interesting but is it also a good reason to use “USA” and “the world” interchangeably?
Germany, the UK, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Greece, Sweden, Austria, Denmark, Portugal, Finland, Ireland and Romania combined – all EU member nations – are about equal to the US. They have a larger combined population (about 460 million v. about 310 million) but the USA certainly don’t beat them by a factor of 5 even taking population into account, more like a factor of 1.5.
The article doesn't actually use "the USA" and "the world" interchangeably. It just says that Apple is the #1 buyer of flash memory in the world. I regret making my initial comment because in the context of the article, the comment I was responding to makes little sense.
Sorry for the ambiguity on my part. I meant that the claims made about iPhones price are based on USA. In many other markets the price differences of iPhone and HTC Desire are quite significant(where i am, it's $940 vs $620). Not to mention that you can get a $210 android phone. Money is not that important for lots of people but looking at the world its very important.
Also iPod's market share is dwarfed by music-phones. It might be true for US and many other rich countries that people don't use that feature and use their iPod instead but in a significant part of the world people cannot afford to cash out $250 for iPod nano just to get a better user experience from their music player. Yes you can get a iPod shuffle for $65 but thats not an upgrade anymore.
Same goes for MacBooks. The equal quality products might have a fairly small price difference, but many people cannot afford to cash out $1400 for a laptop. Especially if there is an alternative available for $500. They are not comparable based on specs and quality etc, but they are comparable in that you can browse facebook, look at pictures and IM on both of them.
Anyway, i agree with Apple making great quality products and that they are nowadays more affordable than ever. I just don't agree with making conclusion about the world based on one quite rich country and belittling other manufacturers who build affordable products for the ones who cannot afford those premium prices.
Only because that list segments by country. If you add up the EU countries you'd have a bigger market than the US and that is as much a single market as the US states are if what you're selling is electronics.
I imagine the really cheap mp3 players would sell pretty well outside the US. I was quite surprised he couldn't find digital audio players much cheaper than an iPod. I've seen mp3 players for well under half the price of an iPod shuffle in Australia, and I imagine in China there would be an even bigger difference.
I think the fuel is that people here tend to be pragmatic. They talk about technologies because lots of them use them to put food on the table(or plan to start doing that) so they think of them from a different perspective than the usual flamewar style.
I personally like to read comments from people who actually try to use different technologies in the real world(you could say to make money) rather than someone with a motivation to sell or evangelize it for whatever reason.
