Technology

Steve’s Kill Your Cable Adventure #1: The Device Experience and The Discussion

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Well, there's a lot of re-orging going on at my apartment.  One roommate is moving away for work for a year.  Another may move.  Plus we've thought of a relocation anyway for a bit more walkability.

Somewhere among all of this we came up with trying to Kill Your Cable.

It fits.  It saves a good amount of money a month, lets you not pay for stuff you don't want, and it's seemingly the wave of the future.  So my remaining roommate and I looked into this – and I'm going to share my findings.

Kill Your Cable both seems to be a trend – and be inevitable.  So I'm going to explore it from the user end and see what lessons we can learn from it – programmers and media people, pay special attention!

So here's what we found.

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Geekonomy, Technology, Homosexuality, Culture, and Apple

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This may be one of my longest post names.

Last week I mentioned I was curious about Tim Cook's appointment as Apple's CEO and the fact he was gay, though it was a subject he didn't talk about (and frankly there's no reason he should or have to).  For me he's a reliable, wonkish, even-handed appointment who's good for a temporary CEO as Apple deals with the change of Jobs – but may have the chance to set a vision and go long term (his stock options hint at that).

As Cook was outed by Gawker (and 'Out' magazine listed him as the most powerful gay person in the world), I'm concerned that his sexual preference might become a Geekonomic/Geek culture issue due to some other trends I want to discuss.  Thus I consider this relevant to the blog, but at the same time feel a bit invasive.

That's a long-form way of kind of apologizing to Mr. Cook if against the odds he reads this or hears about this.

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