I am all in

This was the topic of the lunch hour today. Not a day goes by wtihout the iPhone coming up in a conversation. . Basically, the way I see it, the developer community is hooked to the app store. And consumers like me would not mind spending on apps that are easy to use, fun and increases productivity. I can’t imagine myself posting a blog while in the bus stuck in Sydney evening rush hour. But thanks to my wordpress app in my iPhone I am posting my very first one right now! I personally believe if you want to write an app for the iPhone, it’s better to write a native one. I find myself trying not to use up network data when using apps, and because most of mine are native ones, I have the advantage of storing things locally and syncing or uploading later. This saves me a lot of bandwidth because I am not chewing it up when I am entering stuff or navigating as opposed to using the web app equivalent. Cellular network bandwidth is still expensive, and you don’t get much for the price you pay. Technologies like google gears will enable us to get around this, but it’s utilization for mobile web apps has not taken off that well. Maybe we might have to wait and see what google’s Android is capable of when it is released. So for now, when I start writing apps for the iPhone, I think I will stick to writing native ones.

Let’s face it, weekends are not great anymore when it’s Sunday. It’s the beginning of a new week and you know what lies ahead. But Super Sundays are different. They are different because they don’t always happen, at least not often as you would like them to. On a Super Sunday you go to your favourite burger place for lunch and enjoy the succulent taste of flame grilled beef with crispy bacon and egg and ceaser salad to go as a side dish. If you haven’t tried caesar salad with your burger yet you should, otherwise you are missing out. When it’s chilly and windy at 4.30 in the afternoon, you just can’t resist the warmth of the best hot chocolate in Sydney. That’s when you stroll up to Lindt cafe on Martin Place, one of the only three in Australia(the other two happen to be in Sydney as well). The best of Super Sundays is super stuff doesn’t stop from there. They keep coming. I mean, how often do you see a swiss going for the sixth Wimbledon title in a row? And not only against any other player, it’s against his archrival the Spaniard. You can’t afford to miss the battle between the king and the prince on the holy grail of tennis, not even if you have to be up at 3.15 am. And wait, what about those guys reaching speeds over 300km/h at Silverstone? You just can’t get enough of the lot driving full throttle in the pouring rain, spinning around on the mirror like track trying their best to maintain the grip, there’s no traction control this year remember? This is all too super to happening on a sunday, but hey, I am not complaining!