Today’s edition (10 Sept. 2015) has two full pages in the business section on the new IPads, iPhones and other things Apple. For one thing there is a list of what sound like killer apps for iPhone panoramas. Tech columnist Farhad Manjoo says that the iPhone is “… directly a product of the savvy way Apple has designed and marketed the device to produce global lust.”
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
I like the user multi-tasking (finally!) that iOS 9 brings to the IPad with features like the split screen. Windows had this since the dawn of time (or at least Windows 3.0). I also like the designed in inclusion of a stylus (Apple Pencil) that Mac prospered with since their inception. Live photos might be one of those "why didn't we think of that" concepts that really takes off (clearly enabled by ever faster processors and better cameras). NYT Apple Product Release Article
"savvy way" = appealing to so desperate to appear hip poseurs
each new release creating more plastic crap and driving rampant consumerism in a LOOK AT ME! kulture