Rediscovering Myself

I was just out of some good practices/habits I followed. I just did work that come to me and not tried to focus on my interests. The growing son made me busy all these days. I realized this and I'm trying to back on track. Starting a day with great enthusiasm. Active all through the day.

Restarted the hobby of Photography. Booked a seat in local photography event. Planned to pen up blogs frequently.

The October 22nd

This October 22nd, there are couple of big product launches,

Windows 7 : The much waited OS from Microsoft is all set to launch. Steve Ballmer will unveil the new Windows 7 in NewYork. Though it had been released to manufacturing on July, now this release is for general retail availability. Lets wait and see how the public reacts after the so called failure product in market Vista.

Nokia 3G booklet : Nokia's booklet available with AT&T for $299 (2 year data plan and i hope $60/month) $599 for unsubsidized version. Will Nokia success in this crowded area?

Acer 3D gimmick : This has been promoted as world's first 3D laptop. It demands to wear glasses to see the 3D image. This may price around $1500. I feel this is the cheap way to fake 3D. This technology is being around for decades. However a step towards the 3D vision on computer screens.

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One reason to put braces in IF statement

Recently it happened to read adam-bien blog. I found the interesting explanation for why curly braces blocks are required for IF statements in Java.

Without curly brackets, you could accidentally write a semicolon after the IF-statements. The semicolon is a valid, empty statement, which will be "execute" instead of the actual (intended) one.

So either write the IF-statements with curly brackets blocks ...or carefully search for semicolons after the IF-statement.

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Apple's mistakes on iPhone in India

Apple's iPhone is great phone with high memory, highest display clarity, smooth touch screen panel and many other compared to other phones available in India. It has already got a world wide community which delivered cool applications for iPhones. But it is yet to get a big sales attraction in India though it has been launched year ago.

Why apple fails? Doesn't care the sales in India? Why apple hesitates to land in India firmly? No official stores yet to open. I do not know what apple thinks or what business pressure it has with Indian mobile market. I feel the below

1. It is price tagged huge (200$ in US should be priced below Rs 12,000. But now the 8GB model priced Rs.31,000 and 16GB is Rs.35,000 (approximately 660$ and 770$)
2. India is a big market for mobile phones (more than 60% by Nokia). Indians can afford the cost if this is available in rest of the world. Phones with features that iPhone has are available in India. but they are(will be) expensive if apple quoted 12,000 rupees.
3. India has huge GSM market and should not stick with operators. but iPhones are currently with Airtel and Vodafone. (I've changed this point as i didn't know this earlier)
4. I do not think they understand the India mobile market clearly.
   

I like the Apple's strategy with iPod and iPhones. Keep the same name for the upgraded model and the applications have backward compatibility. This is missing in current Indian mobile market. Every phone behaves its own way and interestingly we have hundreds of model actively available. Few options apple can consider

• Reduce the price as they can sell more.
• Should not tie up with service operator.(I know that there are many to disagree with this point)
• Apple can have more direct stores.
• Design sales and marketing strategies FOR India