From Comic Book Resources:
Marvel today announced that the upcoming X-Men relaunch involving Uncanny X-Men #1 and Wolverine and the X-Men #1 will both cost $3.99 instead of $4.99.
And it’s supposed to be big news cause now more people can afford it. It’s a DOLLAR. Now it costs 4 dollars instead of 5. 8 dollars for two books instead of 10.
Big F’n Deal.
Not good enough Marvel. Come down to $2.99 and we’ll talk.
I would like to tell a story, and ask something of Marvel Comics, whose writers and artists are the authors of so many happy memories. Really i’d like to ask this of all comics companies.
I love comic books. I have since I was 11 years old. I’ve collected on and off over the years, falling out of the habit when my preferred shop would close and I couldn’t fit the cost into my life anymore. The last time I regularly bought monthly books was in 2008, and by this point I was getting married with a lot of bills and other demands on my time and money. I’ve kept up with some stories, and I’ve bought trade paperbacks to keep up with really good ones. But really, comics became too expensive to fit into my life, despite my love of the medium. This is still my main concern.
I’ve read a lot of books over the years, but X-Men was my drug of choice. Mom always wanted me to read more. I didn’t read many books as a kid, mostly watching TV and playing Nintendo. She bought me a couple of comic book multipacks that had some 20 books in it. I read everything, but it was the issues of Uncanny X-Men, X-Factor and New Mutants that caught my interest, because these issues were in a crossover called X-Tinction Agenda.
I was able to see a story progressing from one issue to the next. These 20-packs must have been a few months behind, because later when I went to the store and looked at the issues there, that story was over and something else was happening. But damn it was cool. Characters like Wolverine, Cable, Gambit, Storm, they just caught me. People familiar with the time know that this was the end of Chris Claremont’s 17 year run on the series. I’d relyed on issues at the store, but by the time X-Men #1 came out I had found a comic shop. People familiar with the time will also know that this single issue holds the Guiness Worlds Record for most copies sold.
Comic books have NEVER been bigger than that era. It was when Superman died, and comic shops across the nation were holding funerals. But it was X-Men that really set the industry on fire.
And it was so convenient for me to get comics at that time in my life. I did household chores like dusting and vacuuming and mowing the lawn to earn money. The comic shop was next door to the dance class that my sister went to every saturday, so each week my mom felt comfortable leaving my sister at dance class, and me at the comic shop for an hour and going off and doing her own thing. I could spend an hour reading the books I’d just gotten. And it worked out great. The shop owners had two stores. They decided to close the one I went to, but served the entire state via mail order, so my habit continued. That is until they closed the other store too going out of business completely.
By this time my moms original plan to get me to read more had succeeded. Between comics, and a couple of new Star Wars series that were released at the time, my time as a full time novel reader had come. I was getting older and starting high school, making new friends and becoming more social, and comics was something I felt like I didn’t need anymore.
My return occurred when the comics industry had experienced a major crash and comics almost disappeared entirely. Marvel and DC were trying new things to keep existing readers. Going from an era where X-Men #1 sold 2.1 million copies, to an era where the top selling comic in a month only sold 80,000 copies was a terrible shock to the industry.
The 90′s era was defined by being a collectors market. Gimmicks like special covers and huge events eventually caused the bottom dropped out. What was once worth tons of money became almost worthless from a collectors perspective, resulting in that terrible drop in sales. So in the 21st century, comics creators came with a renewed focus on story and character development instead of those gimmicks that turned off so many people.
Just out of high school, I was making my own money and had nothing but time on my hands, and I got pulled back into things in a big way. Those familiar with the time know that this was when Grant Morrison took over X-Men, and the next few years of stories were amazing.
Marvel also began their Ultimate line, a world of books outside the regular continuity of other stories where characters like Spiderman, X-Men and the Avengers were starting fresh. I made a conscious decision at that time NOT to buy the issues for the Ultimate books instead buying the trade paperback collections. This proved to be a good idea, since generally speaking those stories were written for that format, and were often delayed. So when I read them, I read them the way they were intended.
I found another comic shop that really valued it’s customers. They gave good customers a hell of a discount on books, and it was an inviting place to be. I loved supporting a local business where they actually knew my name.
But time is like a river, and history repeats itself. The shop closed. My discounts were gone, and there weren’t any other shops in the area that I actually enjoyed going to so I let it go. The internet has allowed me to keep up with things. I still buy a TPB from time to time. Indeed, these days I’m trying to sell my back issues. I don’t have room for them, and I’d like to replace my favorite stories with trades or maybe buying digitally. When I got my iPhone last year I downloaded the Marvel, DC and Comixology apps and download the free issues that are given away every week. I even downloaded the Scott Pilgrim app and read that series for the first time digitally. But reading on an iPhone isn’t ideal, and even though you can read in a browser on a computer it’s still not great. Now I have an iPad. Reading on that thing is a god damn JOY. Most comics available for purchase are back issues and rarely do newer comics appear. Even rarer is seeing a comic appear online the same day it’s available to buy in a shop. That is starting to change, but there is a problem…
When I started collecting in 1990, comics were an average of a dollar. Price increases would only see a quarter or 50 cents.
When I started collecting again in 2001, the price had increased sometimes to 3 dollars, but with the industry on the verge of death, they brought prices back down to 2 dollars. Great! Today the average price is $3 again, and in many, many cases it’s $4 and $5 dollars! For a book that only has 22 to 42 pages of story. That is too damn expensive. Period. I can buy a song on iTunes for a dollar. I can buy an album for $10 or $12. I can buy apps for $1 to $10 as well. I can buy food at the store for that much. It’s more than a damn gallon of gas!
The average price of a comic book, that takes maybe 10 minutes to read should not be $4 and $5. $3 is pushing it. I bought Garageband for almost the same price that is being charged for X-Men: Schism #1.
In September, DC Comics is completely rebooting their entire line of comic books. Their characters are starting over in contemporary times without sometimes 80 years of history to bog them down. They’re taking new chances with established well known characters, Superman in particular. Going hand in hand with this relaunch is a commitment to release all of their comics online the same day as in stores. This is actually really great, and I’m very intrigued. Based on previews there are definitly a few books I want to give a chance.
Their pricing scheme is going to change as well. In the month they’re released, new issues will be $3. After they have been out a month, they reduce to $2. So if you MUST buy something the day it is released, you pay a dollar more. If you are patient, you save a dollar.
The whole goal in relaunching and pushing digital is to gain new readers. Comics are still losing readers for the same reasons they lost me. They’re providing as many entry points as they can, and trying to make it as easy and economical as possible.
Marvel was the first company to release their own dedicated iPad/iPhone app. They were the online pioneer. Now they are lagging behind. They recently announced that they will slowly start releasing new comics online the same day as in stores, starting in October with the X-Men and Spiderman books.
Great! There is even an X-Men storyline going on right now that they are releasing day and date. This series is going to change the status quo of the X-Men, and lead to new stories starting in October. Awesome!
The issues are $4 and $5.
Fuck no! Not doing it Marvel. I want to buy your product. I do. But I won’t pay more than $3. Not when I can buy a 150 page volume of Scott Pilgrim for $8. Not when I can buy multiple songs and apps for the same amount of money. Not when DC just put a bunch of Superman comics on sale in their app over the weekend and I bought All-Star Superman 1-12 for a buck an issue. An entire series for 12 smackers. I don’t need you to reboot your universe like DC is doing. I just need you to price things right.
I love comic books. I want to read them. Now that I have an iPad, I’m more than happy to have all my purchases be digital. My wife and I are no stranger to the digital revolution. Netflix streaming on the PS3 is bringing us THIS CLOSE to cancelling cable, and we haven’t purchased a DVD or Blu Ray since last Christmas. It’s been a long time since we bought a physical CD. She practically hasn’t picked up a real book since getting her Nook. Our apartment doesn’t have room for more and more books, CD’s and DVD’s. Buying my comics digitally would be awesome. It IS awesome, as reading All-Star Superman is proving.
But you need to copy DC’s pricing scheme, or even beat them. I’d love to read X-Men: Schism, and then get on board full time for Regenesis. I’ll probably be buying Justice League, Batman and Superman from DC at that point. Next year when the Avengers goes day and date I’d love to get into that too. Buying digitally is what I want to do.
You need to make the price right.
I said I would SO be there, and I was.
Not at midnight opening day, or on opening day at all. I didn’t see it until Sunday morning. The wife and I thought we’d hit the 9:30 am matinee show, avoiding some crowds and saving some money.
And the damn thing was sold-the-hell-out. So we had to see the 10:00 am 3D IMAX. Not exactly in keeping with the whole notion of saving money. We even checked to see just how “sold out” the 9:30 was. I’m fairly certain there were wizards sitting in each others laps. But oh well, it was worth it.
Spoilers beyond! If you haven’t read the books or seen the movies….really? What the hell is wrong with you?
I don’t really remember why I started reading Harry Potter. I’m pretty sure my mom and my sister were making a big deal about it and going to the midnight bookstore releases of the third or the fourth book. I wanted to see what all the fuss was about (not unlike when I would read the Twilight books years later to see what my wife was talking about.) I read the first three rather quickly because they were short. At least they’re considered short now, long after this series redefined what “long” was. They were enjoyable enough. Then I read the fourth one; Goblet of Fire. The last part where Voldemort returns hooked me sooooooooo hard. A new city was built in my Geekdom especially for Harry Potter. At that point I could start to see the shape of things to come. Snape would be a spy for the good guys and eventually be revealed to not be a complete tool. Dumbledore would have to die at some point to allow for Harry to complete his heroes journey without the old man to hold his hand. I’ve always been kind of good at this sort of thing, being a student of myth and storytelling. Knowing these things would happen never keeps me from enjoying the stories when I actually see or read them. In particular, the wrinkles of how those events played out in the final four books is surprising and awesome.
And now I’ve seen how they pay off on the silver screen.
The movie is good. Really good. It embellishes on the book in some really great ways that give our favorite characters moments we’ve always wanted to see. Moments that fulfill their promise and show how they’ve grown up.
When the battle begins it’s tense and breath-taking. The creation of a defensive barrier around Hogwarts is awesome. Seeing death eaters throw volleys of spells against that barrier… It’s how we all imagined a massive battle of wizards would look. When the first line of defenses fail and the enemy surges forward…even if you know how it ends, you still feel the same fear the characters do. Harry’s scene with the Grey Lady is terrifying, and you feel just for a moment that she is going to be pushed too hard and attack him. We return to almost every important location of the series along the way, giving us closure not just on the characters, but also on the points along the way that made them who they are.
Nobody in this movie is better than Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort. As things move along and Voldemort feels more and more vulnerable, the subtlest amounts of terror appear on his face. There are almost tears in his eyes as horcruxes are destroyed and he realizes that his deepest secret is out and the key to immortality is at stake.
The film makers should be particularly proud of Snape’s final scene and his memories. Those scenes made me genuinely emotional. They provide the true payoff for the character. Like most of the actors Alan Rickman has spent ten years in this role, and even though his appearance has always differed from the one Rowling describes, I truly doubt that at this point even she sees anyone else in this role. Rickman WAS Snape, and I’m going to miss him the most. I’m also eager to see what he does next.
All of the actors should be proud of their performances. Even though the kids have grown up with these roles, there is never a moment that you don’t believe they truly are these characters. This series has always had fantastic casting, featuring some truly wonderful people. This is particularly evident in Harry’s scene in the forest. Here he has lost all of his parental figures, guardians and role models, and they return to him one last time to give him love and strength. There is more emotion in this scene than all three Star Wars prequels.
The film isn’t perfect though.
I’ve always had a couple of gripes about the movies. Usually about elements they choose to leave out. While the fourth movie is practically completely rewritten to streamline it’s story, the third movie is by far the biggest offender. When they didn’t reveal who made the Mauraders Map, or discuss that Harry’s father turned into a stag, a pivitol moment for Harry is lost. Providing such an important link with Harry and his father, particularly because his own patronus was a stag is so important to the character that it’s almost unforgivable to leave out, to barely hint at it. Movies beyond that all feature their own cuts, and I’m almost always okay with those cuts. But every now and again they take an artistic license that is truly frustrating.
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, two changes stood out to me.
There is something very wrong with the way the Kings Cross scene with Dumbledore ends. This scene is meant to bring final understanding between teacher and student. They are supposed to part ways as equals, now that all of the secrets are on the table and Harry has made his sacrifice. They can move on as men, and Harry is free of secrets and manipulations and can finally decide for himself what to do next. That isn’t how the scene in the movie plays out, and I don’t understand the change.
The second one comes during the final battle, as the tide begins turning against the Death Eaters. At what point did the good guys start using a killing curse that is WORSE than Avada Kedavra? One that causes people to straight up explode? Wouldn’t that be an even MORE unforgivable curse? This change is purely for visual effect, but it clearly hasn’t been thought through.
Overall, Harry Potter is really the first of it’s kind. A modern series of books, adapted for film before the novels had even been completed. The final book arrived, and many of us could already imagine how scenes would go and how the actors would handle certain moments. That they could begin making these movies before the series finished, and manage to keep the same tone and be such a wonderful reflection of the books is an amazing achievement. They aren’t perfect, but the books aren’t either. But both have changed their respective industries. When was the last time there was a great 8-part series of movies? When was the last time film makers had the guts to split a book into two movies instead of just cutting everything to make it fit into 120 minutes? When was the last time kids gave more of a damn about reading than other activities? When was the last time a movie series retained ALL of it’s actors, with the exception of recasting after someone passes away? This series changes things for the better. I can’t wait to watch all of the movies one after another to get the full effect.
I’m sad that Harry Potters story is over, but I can always relive it however I want.
You know, I started this blog for a couple reasons. I wanted to get my various thoughts out there, focus them, see if anybody gave a damn or not. I also wanted to improve my writing abilities. Years ago I was told by teachers that I was a talented writer, but for various reasons I didn’t pursue it beyond high school. I’ve been a poster on message boards for years, and I decided to take those opinions and refine them into blog-form.
So I start it. Make a few posts then abruptly stop. Why?
Life. Life distracted me from my desire to write. But here I am, trying to get back in the saddle.
As they say in the so-hilarious-I-wish-it-were-real fake movie “Face Punch” from the New Moon movie…
LET’S DO THIS!!!
(um, that means expect new content soon)
From MacWorld
The Woz (Steve Wozniak,) who for those of you who don’t know co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs back in the day.
He recently had an interview with MacWorld in which he said the following:
That is what I’m talking about. Our mom and dads don’t need the heavy duty, high powered desktop PC or even laptop that we use for graphics, multimedia and editing. They need something that is easy to use and serves their needs. Thats what tablets are doing.
Black Swan comes out on BluRay/DVD tomorrow. If you haven’t seen it, do so because it’s as good as you’ve heard. Natalie Portman absolutely earned the awards she’s received including the Academy Award for Best Actress. The work she put into the role is immediately apparent upon seeing the movie, and how she was able to do that while also having no less than three other movies in the pipeline is nothing short of amazing.
I saw another movie last week that reminded me of it in a number of ways.
BTW, some light spoilers on both movies if you haven’t seen them. You’ve been warned.
Both movies are about someone slowly going mad. Both movies deal with hallucinations and questions about what is and isn’t real. Both lead roles required the actor/actress to lose an unhealthy amount of weight for the role. And watching both gave me the distinct feeling of “this is what it feels like to go stark raving mad.”
In The Machinist Christian Bale plays Trevor Reznik; a character who works at a manufacturing shop and is plagued by insomnia that has lasted for over a year. His time is spent working, eating at a diner where he has a crush on the waitress, or with a prostitute for whom he is a regular. He is emaciated to a frightening degree, and the people around him at work and his prostitute begin to question his health and state of mind. His sense of reality is further threatened when first he notices a game of Hangman is being played on his fridge, and second when he meets a fellow named Ivan at work who has a bizarre and cavalier attitude about life. Ivan comes and goes, almost haunting Trevor as nobody seems to know who Ivan is.
Trevor’s life takes a terrible turn soon after meeting Ivan. Trevor is distracted by Ivan while performing maintenance on a machine at work. The machine is activated, costing a co-worker his arm. While Trevor blames Ivan, everyone else questions Trevor’s sanity because there is no Ivan on the payroll. Is Ivan a hallucination? What is real?
You could say that Christian Bale has been type-cast. When you think about it, he’s been cast to play numerous roles where his character is someone with tons of issues and mental problems. Patrick Bateman, Trevor Reznik, Bruce Wayne/Batman, a magician who seems to have two personalities (yes, I’ve seen The Prestige and know what the deal really is,) his own Oscar Winning turn as Dickie Ward, hell even John Conner. Bale plays crazy people. He plays them reaaaaallly good though. Yeah, he’s had a few non-crazy roles, but overall? He’s one of my favorite actors, but the dude himself may be a little nuts. It’s probably why he’s so good at it.
While the source of their bent realities is quite different, both Black Swan and The Machinist present a terrifying view of what it must be like to go crazy or be crazy. A fractured mind living their life through a haze of reality and hallucination, seeing things that aren’t there, living events that didn’t happen. Having their surroundings change without their knowledge, all while somehow also living in the real world…
Portman’s Nina Sayers sees pictures her mother has drawn talking to her and making faces. Reznik is playing a game of Hangman on his fridge with an intruder trying to tell him a message. Sayers sees herself sprouting feathers and scratches at her skin. Reznik over a years time has lost so much weight he looks like a zombie. Sayers has a lesbian encounter with another dancer that never happened, and Reznik spends an evening with a waitress and her son that is somehow at the root of his insomnia. Sayers sees images of someone stalking her that could be herself, or the other dancer. Reznik is being stalked by Ivan, but why? Sayers insanity causes her to lash out and hurt her predecessor, while Reznik’s sightings of Ivan cause him to accidentally turn on a machine while his co-workers arm is inside. The site of his severed arm is terrifying, juxtaposing the horrors of real life with their imagined horrors.
As you watch both, a foreboding sense of claustrophobia and doom overtakes you. As each character succumbs to the violent false realities their minds have created, you become afraid of what is around the next corner in a way that Freddy or Jason can’t compete with. It’s the purest fear of the unknown—fear of your own mind. In Reznik’s case, he has repressed something horrible he’d done a year earlier and his mind is trying to make him realize the truth. In Sayer’s case, years of repression by her mother and her own terrible anxiety are the cause, but each persons broken mind is a sad and terrifying thing to behold.
These movies required their lead actor to put their bodies through heavy trauma for the role. Bale went for long periods without sleeping to understand the effects of sleeplessness, and he lost 63 lbs. for the role. Late in the film there is a flashback of him at normal weight, just in case you’d gotten used to his emaciated look. The level of dedication that Portman gave to Black Swan is no less amazing, as her intensive six month dance training gave her the thin, boney but muscular frame of a professional dancer. When you think about what actors sometimes put themselves through for roles, it’s sad. Renee Zellweger going up and down in weight for Bridget Jones and Chicago movies is another example. Portman is now pregnant, and Bale gained all his weight back and then some for Batman Begins.
Both were amazing movies, and each actor was amazing in the movie, so why did Portman get nominated for this, but not Bale in the past? Interesting question. Maybe people really do think that Bale is crazy, and therefore he hasn’t had to “act” that much, while Portman has had a wide variety of roles. Who knows.
I recommend both movies to anyone who wants to see what it’s like to go bat$#!+ crazy.
As an aside, something particularly interesting to me is that the roots of both of these movies lay in mid to late 19th century Russia. Black Swan is of course about Sayers trying to win the lead in a new production of Swan Lake, a ballet and musical piece written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. One of the chief influences on the Machinist was the works of author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. These men were contemporaries in the arts in Russia during the politically turbulent time of Czar Nicholas I. Commentators and critics said of their works: “With a hidden passion they both stop at moments of horror, total spiritual collapse, and finding acute sweetness in the cold trepidation of the heart before the abyss, they both force the reader to experience those feelings, too.”
The movies force the viewer to experience those feelings as well, and those themes are immediately apparent. These same themes are persistent in the life of both men. Indeed Tchaikovsky was known to have struggled with homosexuality, and I wouldn’t put it past Director Darren Aronofsky to have included lesbian tendencies in Black Swan as a parallel to that. Such similar movies being inspired and influenced by contemporary artists more than 150 years ago, artists who through different mediums explored similar concepts and themes.
And as a reflection of reality 150 years later, what do you see when you look inside yourself after seeing of these movies?
Been awhile since I posted. Sorry, been a lot going on. This is just a quicky.
So who the heck programs reruns of shows to run out of order? On WGN just now they showed the episode of How I Met Your Mother where Stella leaves Ted at the alter—uh—spoiler alert? Sorry peeps—and then showed the episode where the guys have an intervention for him marrying her. These are from the same season, but out of order. Why? Who programs that to happen? It seems like it would actually be more work to play them out order than it would be to play in order.
Pet peeve y’all.
Have you noticed this?
I was listening to Mike and Mike in the Morning this, uh, morning, and Greenberg was talking about the NCAA games coming up today, and he was all scared of missing something. Apparently he’s a master of changing the channel just before something awesome happens. He demonstrated this with a comedy bit where he’s playing the intro to some sitcom, wondering out loud if he’s forgetting something. He switches over to a game, and something amazing has happened and he’s missed it. I heard the old Growing Pains theme and I got to thinking…
What has happened to TV show intros?
In the past we had American Anthems! Just listen to this and tell me it doesn’t make you want to sit down to a home cooked american meal?
And what about Growing Pains itself? Listen to the passion of the guy!
These days we get quick little licks like this:
Or the one from one of my new favorite shows, Mr. Sunshine:
I actually like this one. My wife and I sing along.
Speaking of Courtney Cox and Mathew Perry, Friends had a freaking top 10 hit for an intro!
Or how about Married with Children and it’s awesome Frank Sinatra tune?
Most of these are 30 seconds to a full minute!
It was always normal for popular shows to shorten up their intros in the later years or for syndication, because by then the audience was built in and they knew what they were getting. When did we start to get these 5 note intros? I think it started with Seinfeld. The first season or two would intro with Jerry doing some stand-up with the wicked bass line underneath it. Later they’d play just a small snippet of the bass line while the logo appeared over the opening scene. That was probably pretty cool and edgy at the time, to just jump right into the show. But how cool was that bass line?
And it’s not just sitcoms. Drama’s are doing it too:
They probably do it to make it feel more like a movie. More cinematic.
I know, I know, not everything does it. NCIS has a fairly traditional intro. How I Met Your Mother straddles the line between traditional and speedy. 30 Rock has a full intro. But for every traditional one, I feel like there are two quick ones. What is the purpose? More show? More commercials? The longest one I can think of is True Blood with it’s dirty, sweaty, sexy intro.
Am I wrong? Is this becoming a lost art in television?
All I know is, where would we be as a people without the A-Team theme?
Have you seen this?
This conceptual video by Corning is freaking amazing. Not because it’s so flashy, but because it’s right around the corner.
Imagine the iPad, and then apply it to EVERYTHING you own. Your TV’s, your kitchen counters, your windows, and your freaking bathroom mirrors. All of it working in sync, connected to your car, your phone. Your phone interfacing with a surface at work. We use a lot of this technology today, it just needs to be integrated into other things.
This is where things are heading. The rise of smart phones and social media can’t be disregarded as fads. I’m here to tell you that the iPhone or the iPad are not dumbed down computers, or that people are just buying them because they’re the shiny new thing Apple told them to buy.
I spent six years as a technical support representative at an antivirus software company. Every day I took between 10 and 30 calls from the average person having trouble with their computers. The horror stories are true. Nobody knows how to use a computer. People don’t know how to uninstall programs. They don’t use the Start Button. They don’t understand the difference between using email in Outlook and in GMail. The average joe views a Personal Computer as a barely penetrable monolith that they have to take classes in order to learn how to use properly.
the comparisons are obvious
Ninety-eight percent of the people I would talk to would preface their call with “I’m not a computer nerd” or “I’m a computer idiot.” They only used the computer for the web, email pictures, etc… They felt like they had to learn how to do actual programming in order to know how to use their computer.
I used to think that computers were comparable to cars. You don’t need to know how to change your oil or even replace the struts in order to know how to drive. I would equate proper uninstall techniques and file management to getting gas and refilling the wiper fluid. This comparison is flawed. What grandma and grandpa can do with a computer is equivalent to turning the key and taking it out of park. They haven’t even begun to drive. But it wasn’t until the iPad that I started to realize this comparison didn’t work.
I wasn’t initially impressed with the iPad. It was just a big iPod Touch. But it really is more than that. It is the first true PC. Personal Computer. It isn’t dumbed down. It isn’t flashy. It’s intuitive and personal. With an iPad, the computer is no longer scary. It isn’t that impenetrable monolith. The things that the every day person uses; email, the web, social media, photos, games are all presented in a way that makes sense. I can’t overuse intuitive. Buying, installing, using and deleting an app is all simple and makes sense. It truly puts you in the drivers seat in a way that wasn’t being provided before.
I use my desktop PC (an iMac) for graphic design, video, etc… I’m an experienced user. It won’t be long before people only have a desktop PC for high level work like that. Images, video, programming and so on. The average person is only going to have some kind of smart phone or tablet device, and not long after that, those devices will start interfacing with our every day needs. A counter top that detects my ingredients and display recipies that shares information with my phone or tablet, or better yet shares information with my fridge or pantry to actually tell me if I have the necessary ingredients?
Wicked.
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