Why I'm not getting an iPhone 4S

1. My iPhone 4 does all that I need it to do,
2. standing in line to buy something is less fun than watching reality TV,
3. I want to wait and see who's likely to win the 4G/LTE race, and most importantly,
4. ...Siri will be much more useful after millions of customers provide nine months of use and pattern data that Apple can use to make Siri truly useful when iPhone 5 (likely) launches next summer. The current version's campy pseudo-clever responses make very clear that Siri IS A BETA PRODUCT. It's very limited, and I have enough distractions already.

Update on Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 6:30PM by Robert Cathey

Shameful on my part to miss a typo for this long. Thanks to Alesa Grant for spotting it!

Cloudscaling news

Three recent news items from client Cloudscaling deserve noting:

1. Randy Bias blogs that AWS's runaway success in public cloud is due to design simplicity and giving developers a limited set of choices. Joe Brockmeier at ReadWriteWeb posted his own take on Randy's POV yesterday.

2. It was fun connecting Cloudscaler David Bernstein with Ian Scales of TelecomTV for a chat in London last week. The interview is embedded below, in case you don't want to register.

3. Troy Angrignon is participating in a webinar on Friday with Arista Networks and Taiwan gear maker Quanta Computer. It focuses on architecture and equipmente selection, along with some case studies. (By the way, Quanta founder Barry Lam has a nice tribute to Steve Jobs in the Bloomber Businessweek commemorative edition. (scroll) )

Everest Group in the news

Was honored to help Everest Group secure a guest post on Forbes.com. Next Generation IT Practice Group leader Scott Bils talks about how cloud is fundamentally transforming the job to be done by CIOs in large enterprises.

OpenStack: open source PR works for open source software

OpenStack's first year has been a success. A small part of that is due to the open PR and communications model in the community.

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Does the filter bubble stack the deck against disruptive ideas?

Updated on Friday, July 1, 2011 at 10:32AM by Robert Cathey

Your click history tells Google and the sites you visit what content to show you. Is this kicking serendipity in the teeth?

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