Agile Web Application Development with Yii 1.1 and PHP5Over the past months we have heard right and left about the new comer and so called great tool ‘iPad’. Now, it is the best tool to interact with Internet, to view-share your photos, to blah, blah, blah… Again, the same story. So, marketing wise, Apple is unreal, their designs, their messages, their ‘hey people wait that is something even greater to come’ is remarkable but let me ask you guys, what is the exact point of so much technology nowadays if most of us, mere mortals, dont have a freaking clue on how the hell all those house-work-devices really work? I bet that 90%, if not 100% of us, don’t use all what a machine-device is capable of. I am a programmer and I don’t even use the full potential of my Blackberry, are you doing something I don’t? I guess not.

For me, and this is a humble opinion, so much technology is crap. Filing the gap between phones and/or netbooks and computers? What a great marketing concept but what a waste of time.

Also, let me share with you something I read on the http://www.independent.co.uk/:

The Foxconn factory in the southern Chinese boom town of Shenzhen is so vast that walking around its outer perimeter takes two hours. Its workers turn out components that are supplied to big Western electronics brands including Nokia, Hewlett-Packard and Dell. And it is here that most of the parts for Apple’s iPhone, and the much-awaited iPad, which goes on sale in the UK this week, are manufactured.

Yesterday, Li Hai, a 19-year-old employee of the firm, jumped from the top of the building in Shenzhen to his death. It brought the number of suspected suicides at the factory this year to 10. There have been another two attempted suicides.

All of the deaths have been of youngsters between 18 and 25 years old. Li Hai had only been working at the plant for 42 days. The incidents have prompted intense soul-searching in China, about conditions in its factories and the social cost of breakneck economic development.

Here you go and yes, we can all excuse our selves saying that, they have chosen the job, they decided to finish their lifes… whatever. The truth is that we don’t really know what happened to the minds of those youngsters and in which circumstances they had to work… Maybe they were forced to work for their families survival, we don’t know. The only thing that matters is that we had iPad right in time, isn’t that true mr Steve Jobs?

In 1984, Apple next launched the Macintosh. Its debut was announced by the now famous $1.5 million television commercial “1984″. It was directed by Ridley Scott, aired during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII on January 22, 1984 and is now considered a watershed event for Apple’s success and a “masterpiece”.

Mr Steve Jobs, you are not different from IBM.

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