Gadgetory

this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by netflix go to netflix.com slash buffalo for your free trial membership today what's up everyone jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo here hardware is all the rage nowadays talking about dual core tegra tues that have found the way to the motorola xoom that same chipset making its way into the motorola atrix we have speed coming out the wazoo what does that speed me to you all the horsepower in the world can't make a difference if the software is not optimized for it you could have a quad-core chip which would blow away any competition with the Starhawk software rather can't take advantage of it it's not going to be of much use to you and now we're about to talk about hardware some more on apple being the focus we just saw the macbook pros get refreshed and we are on the eve of presumably new iPads being announced with a little bit of a thinner display a front camera a rear camera and a little better a5 processor which presumably accordin all rumors is going to be dual core which is great but i would treat all that hardware in the world for an improved user experience again if the hardware it can't improve what i end up using on a daily basis there's no use to it and you're just burning battery now Apple when they launched the iphone in 2007 whether you love apple hate apple or fall somewhere in between there's no doubt they change the mobile industry forever they change the way we think about a mobile device and what it can do and it certainly gave birth to fantastic competition like android and webos which is recently getting a shot in the arm with HP resources however since the iphone launched in 2007 the operating system has become extremely stale it launched with huge features emitted that should have been there from day one cut copy and paste and mms us were the two flagships now since then they've opened the app store which is given additional functionality to the advice to the device but it hasn't changed what it looks like for the end user when you look at your iphone now versus what an iphone look like in 2007 you still have that same array of icons now you can make folders but things are still the same you get those obtrusive pop-up notifications if I am browsing a website doing some work I don't want to know that it's my turn on words with friends I want to see that down below up top somewhere with not gonna make me stop what I'm doing and have to hit ok or cancel and pause what's going on in the background which is of a lock screen which displays very little information Jill breaking now is borderline becoming a necessity to get some increased functionality Apple should have been innovating with from their previous iterations of the software so what I'm looking forward to most on Wednesday isn't a brand-new iPad I don't care about cameras I want a better user experience I want an operating system that's on par with the competition I want Apple to continue to innovate company that I used to be proud of when I used to love to follow but they've lost their luster Apple iPhone used to be my daily phone since 2007 I know carry an Android device in my pocket because I want those unapproved notifications because I want true multitasking not app switching Apple needs to step up and continue to drive the operating system forward there's been so much focused on hardware and I'm certainly guilty of that as well I run through specs and talk about how it's one gigahertz versus an 800 megahertz and how that matters the end of the day you need software optimized for your hardware an apple has done a very good job with optimizing their software but they were really fallen flat on new feature innovation I am hoping that iOS 5 is going to bring a completely new user experience maybe they'll bring which 'it's in the background at the very least less and I hope somebody is listening at the very least and unobtrusive messaging system and a la catrina take better advantage please there are very simple features and things that really need to be there in order to have iOS and the iphone in general remain competitive and of course the ipad is well running the same operating system these are features that are required that Android has that webos has and that should have been there from day one so this has been at my rant on Apple I'm hoping that it's going to continue to push forward and it continued to push and redefine we think of the mobile industry but at least right now I'm not holding my breath I want to thank our sponsors that Netflix is an awesome way to get movie and TV content right to your television you your xbox ps3 or wii if you want to try it out for a free month be sure to go to netflix.com slash buffalo for your free trial membership today thank you to the folks at Netflix you