Category: Contents

Tears for LG: LG Makes Latest myTouch Devices

Recently there was a news on LG from the front page of company’s intranet site…

Saying, LG will deliver 2 myTouch devices -company franchise models- in this holiday.

Strangely enough my company, which is obvious no 4, runs a model of “franchise” devices – meaning service provider dictates every things on device design and “OEM” delivers..

don’t know how much the service provider can dictate as much in smartphone era as it used to do in past, but this was the way htc grew its US business and smartphone business without its brand… And I heard there has been increasing tensions from htc that they will not do this type of business any more without their brand..

As a little shareholder of LGE…this is such a sad news.. maybe LG can get some volumes? But in this way? The more sad piece is all the comments from employees saying “This is a horrible move for franchise device!” Relating all the bad experiences with LG devices..-.-

It’s tough days in Youido?
2011.10

iPhone 4S?

Sorry Apple but looks like you are running out of gas for innovation..

* Dual-core A5 chip: Dual core is already a standard on high end smartphones…
* Camera and optics: Sorry again…standard
* iOS5 and iCloud: Android is there and cloud is already available thru various applications
* Siri: ……and “There is a app for that” as well…

So other than the fact what it does as “Baseband chip” work both on GSM and CDMA, I don’t see anything hot in here.. (But if someone is already with GSM, what does having CDMA mean?)

Is this signaling Apple is running out of gas for innovation or something “quantum jump” is awaiting? (in junction with all the patent affairs….) or is this following the classic path of Apple II vs. IBMย compatibles?.. These folks should have at least upgrade their look and feels (i.e. display size)

Sorry, I don’t feel anything special with iPhone, and feel happy around Samsung and HTC smartphones I have been using…and sad news for people who were holding their decisions with expectation of something big from this version and Sprint who put its future of its business with this iPhone release…

2011.10

Kindle Fire

Wow this has been the hottest news on this week. Interestingly enough, Amazon introduced its tablet as “Kindle Fire”ย 
and the most amazing thing is Amazon is starting its Tablet journey with their famous “Day 1 South” approach. Starting in red and collect back. First I thought this as a new Android based Tablet, and scratched my head to think what is the difference between this and 7 inch Galaxy Tab…
However, after some thoughts…I believe this is the most fearful approach ….not just because of its low price…bur rather because of these facts
* Amazon has almost full line up in cloud service and its related contents: eBooks, Videos, Music, Android applications, etc…
* Amazon’s buying power or negotiation power with contents providers or publishers are incredible.ย 
and most of all….
* Amazon has extremely loyal customers who pay $79 per year as Prime members- who does everything with Amazon because you paid $79 to company.
I guess this will raise tons of contents sales as Amazon said, and even increase in Prime subscription (Already Video stream is free for Prime customers..)
So, Netflix and even Google gotta be fearful of this….and I believe if this is successful, this will change the game to “access to contents” business as Apple already did a bit..

Chaser!

๋„ทํ”Œ๋ฆญ์Šค๋•๋ถ„์— ์ถ”๊ฒฉ์ž๋ฅผ ์ด์ œ์„œ์•ผ ๋ดค๋‹ค
..(ํ•œ๋ฅ˜์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•œ๊ฒ๊ฐ€?) ๋‘ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ์˜ ์ˆจ๋ง‰ํžˆ๋Š” ํ˜ธ์—ฐ๊ณผ ๋‚ด์šฉ ์ „๊ฐœ์— ๊ฒฝ์•…(์›๋ž˜ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์˜ํ™” ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์‹ซ์€๋ฐ… ๋‚œ ์•„์ง๋„ ๊ถŒ์„ ์ง•์•…. ๋ฐ ๊ฟˆ๊ณผ ํฌ๋ง์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ์†Œ์žฌ๊ฐ€ ์ข‹๋‹ค…) ๋ฐ ๋ชธ์„ ๋–จ๋ฉฐ ๋‹ค๋ณด๊ณ  ์ปคํ”ผํ•œ์ž” ๋งˆ์‹œ๋ คํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ถ€์—Œ ์นด์šดํ„ฐ์— ๋ง์น˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค…์œผ…



2011.9

Days of Being Wild: ้˜ฟ้ฃ›ๆญฃๅ‚ณ(์•„๋น„์ •์ „)

Another jewel found out of Netflix….

Great director Kar-Wai Wong(์™•๊ฐ€์œ„) (story and arts) with great actors… Leslie Cheung(์žฅ๊ตญ์˜), Maggie Cheung(์žฅ๋งŒ์˜ฅ), and Andy Lau(์œ ๋•ํ™”)… One of the best HK movie I missed in past….

The movie doesn’t feel like it is the movie from 21 years ago… wow…

“You and I had 1ย minuteย together, and now it has become a fact”

Movie: Casino

One of the good thing about Netflix streaming is actually the fact it gives me the chance to follow up the movies I missed sometime in past…

Just finished watching Casino.. 1995 Movie…which Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone… Yes Sharon Stone.. the heroin of high school students during my high school days….-o-;;;;;

The movie is kind of long and story is a bit long as well but kind of nice story telling on how a mafia man got into Casino business and how he drove success while managing the issues amongย violence and showy life of casino operation…

2011.8

The Man from Nowhere

๋ฐค์— ๋นจ๋ž˜๊ฐœ๋ฉด์„œ Netflix Streaming service๋ฅผ navigationํ•˜๋Š” ์ค‘ ์–ด๋””์„ ๊ฐ€ ์˜ํ™” poster ์ค‘ ๋‚ฏ์ด ์ต์€ ์–ผ๊ตด์ด ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค…

์•— ์›๋นˆ!

(poster from IMDb)

์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ๊ฐ์ƒํ•ด์ฃผ์‹  ํ•œ๊ตญ ์˜ํ™”๋˜์‹œ๊ฒ ๋‹ค….
๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๋˜ ์†Œ๋ฌธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ข€ ์ž”์ธ์€ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ… ๋ฉ‹์ง€๋„ค…

“ํ•œ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ์•ˆ์•„๋ณด์ž”
“๋„ˆํฌ๋“ค์€ ๋‚ด์ผ ๋งŒ์„ ์‚ด์ง€? ๋‚œ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋งŒ์„ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ„๋‹ค. ๋‚ด์ผ์„ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋†ˆ์€ ์˜ค๋Š˜๋งŒ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ์ฃฝ๋Š”๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜๋งŒ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์—ฟ๊ฐ™์€์ง€ ์•Œ๋ ค์ค„ํ…Œ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ”

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