I still remember the day I was sitting in my room, at my desk, watching the keynote and calculating how long would I have to save in order to afford the phone should it come to Singapore eventually (roughly 7 months, I was a student then). Many months later when it seemed like the iPhone […]
Happy 10th Birthday, iPhone
Posted January 9th, 2017 by Ryu at 8:36 pm in Anniversary, Editorial and iPhone. 0 CommentsSteve Jobs’ Death Anniversary 2014
Posted October 5th, 2014 by Ryu at 3:55 pm in Editorial. 0 CommentsIt has been three years since Steve passed. As we today look at our iPhone 6es, our iPad Airs, our new Mac Pros and wait longingly for the Apple Watch, do we remember Apple as the behemoth that bought Beats, stepped repeatedly on tiny has-been Microsoft, and shows the finger to Google? Or is Apple […]
My podcast (listening) journey, 2013 edition
Posted June 1st, 2013 by Ryu at 2:32 pm in Editorial and Podcasts. 0 CommentsChanged a few things around the site. Contemplated going with a completely new theme, but decided that the effort will not be worth my time, especially as I really like the current layout. Quite some time back, I wrote about how I discovered 5by5 studios, and how switching to it (from the deteriorating TWiT network) […]
On the long Apple writing hiatus and my hatred for the world right now
Posted May 17th, 2013 by Ryu at 2:05 am in Apple and Editorial. 1 CommentSince Steve passed away, I have not found much motivation to post anything here. Furthermore, changes to various aspects of my Apple-related connections locally just made things worse. These days, I am really more depressed than anything else to have idiots berating me every time I point out factual mistakes in their Anti-Apple rants, all […]
Apple posts yet another record breaking quarter, AAPL down 13%
Posted January 25th, 2013 by Ryu at 7:02 am in Editorial. 0 CommentsEven more proof that Wall Street and all these analysts/investors are just idiots. On the other hand, why should we bother with them in the first place? They were not here with us when the iMac was launched, neither were they here when Steve announced the original iPod. When the iPhone was released they said […]
Why is it so cheap today after the crazy spikes last year? Simple. Powerful people needed to make big money, and the only way to do it is to keep AAPL below $500.
Been a long long time since I last wrote here, and before I restart having more frequent appearances here I thought I will post some very short thoughts about everything happening at Apple for the past few months. On Tim Cook: There are men who are “leaders”, and there are men who are just “bosses”. […]
The Parities of Steve Jobs and Hyuuga Tooru in “Rich Man, Poor Woman”
Posted September 12th, 2012 by Ryu at 2:14 pm in Editorial, Japanese dramas and Steve Jobs. 3 CommentsThose of you who know me personally know that in addition to being an Apple freak, I am also more Japanese than most other Singaporeans. This drama season (summer, running roughly from July to September), I am addicted to “Rich Man, Poor Woman” a “Getsuku”(Fuji TV’s most famous timeslot for Japanese dramas, Monday 9pm, also […]
Sparrow Mail sells out to Google, scams its loyal users
Posted July 21st, 2012 by Ryu at 1:03 am in Complaints, Editorial, Evil Devs, Google, Google is Evil and Sparrow. 2 CommentsToday, Sparrow, arguably the best third party mail client on OS X and iOS (there aren’t many really) right now, sent its paid users this email; This is great news for everyone in the company (big cash out), but for most of their loyal users, this not just a clear act of betrayal (who could […]
Why John Gruber jumped ship and betrayed 5by5 studios (Updated with Final Comment)
Posted May 29th, 2012 by Ryu at 1:20 am in 5by5, Complaints, Daring Fireball and Editorial. 1 Comment!!!Important: Please read the final comment at the end of this post before deciding if you wish to continue reading the whole piece. This incident has happened more than 3 weeks ago, and while it seems silly to write about it after most of the online hate towards gruber has died down, I simply […]
