A Meaningful Life

Sometimes I have some really good things I want to share and our Saasu.com blog isn’t quite suitable. So I’ll still be posting here. However they will be succinct posts in honour of time management for readers and me

• Christine.net has great insight from Zappo - 7mio+ customers, half of which repeat buy every year.
• Seth pinpoints the truth about marketing in the point of interaction.

I will officially be ceasing my personal blog in the theme of simplifying life. Don’t worry, if you like to regularly read the odd crazy rant go to my new writing venue at our Saasu Blog http://www.saasu.com/blog or via RSS Feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/saasu

10 seconds of your time to add the new feed will keep you connected.

Thanks for reading!

1. Beijing Olympics opens on the auspicious 08/08/08.
2. 162 million internet users.
3. China’s average income is US$2k p/a.
4. 2/3 rds of its power is from coal.
5. You can’t resell Skype in china.
6. China is half of the global demand growth in metals.
7. Is a single party planned economy.
8. They invented ice cream in 2000BC. A milk and rice mixture packed in snow.

Beautiful design, for 2010’s market. This sums up my feeling. Love it, want one, but damn you Apple, you failed me on my three key user requirements:

1. Play/Burn CD’s to iTunes.
2. Internal optical drive.
3.Two USB plugs at least.

Any sales guy or gadget geek knows where I’m coming from on this last point.

To use the 0.76 inch thick MacBook Air I need my 1.0 inch thick Windows laptop. So being truthful, the user experience thickness is 1.76 inches. I see two patties in that whopper, not one wafer thin mail envelope.

The good news is we don’t feel too bad about the bunch of 24″ Macs we just bought at Saasu.com There is no “I’m missing out” envy present yet. The second someone brings one into work, that will change instantly, they do look great.

I hope market pressure has Apple bring out a two USB port version. This might entice me over the line. They won’t change their position on the internal optical drive and I agree with their direction as much as a I don’t like it. I was hoping to stretch CD/DVD support for a few more years so I don’t feel like the old guys who have vinyl. No offense meant.

Photo by Roger Jones