I lost my Sunglasses

Last week I realized that the sunglasses that I really loved, the Ray-ban New Wayfarer Sunglasses disappeared. I bought this pair of sunglasses last year when I was on the way back to Bozeman, in the Soul Airport duty free shop. I had about three hours to wait for another flight, plus my parents gave me some money. When I walk around at the airport, i have just influenced by so many people who are insanely like to shop in the airport because of duty free. I found a shop that sells Ray ban glasses, then I tried a few on. I wasn't sure if I really want to buy, but the sales person, a pretty young cute girl, said I look better in the brown one. This helped me a lot to make a decision. I bought it at $126 after discount, the original price was $140. Not Cheap, but I can afford it. After back to Bozeman, I checked the price online, which it turns out it is only $80 at Amazon, Holy @#$%^&*! Well, I like it though, because all of the shopping experience was very enjoyable. The whole process of buying this pair of sunglasses was a psychological thinking experiences. For example, the magnetosphere that people all like to shop,  enough money, cute sales person, and self benefit exploration have encouraged me to buy this one. I really liked it, even if I spent more money than others. It is sad that I can't find it. Bye, my dear Ray-Ban

Film or Digital?

I like photography. Taking picture is party of my daily hobbies. I have a phone which allow me to take picture at anytime, anywhere. On the other side, I like film photography, because of shooting film is more expensive than digital, which drags me have to think twice before I press the shutter. I enjoyed playing film, and I really like Polaroid, the instant camera. Even though there is type of software may convert a digital picture into the look like a Polaroid picture. However, I feel it is really fake.

Obviously, the reason why film is not so popular today is because it is cheap and convient to share on Facebook. If you a not a photography lover or a professional photographer, film could be a legend in your mind.

Yesterday, I went to a pawn shop and found a Polaroid 600 instant camera at just $4.50.     Then I went to All of the Bozeman photography shop to see if they have any film available for sale. It turn out they did not, which is really sad. I checked the price after, it shocked me, a box of film will cost me approximately $50, I will not spend money on this because I am a poor student. But I still feel sad about can't afford the film and can't really play with it.

There is a demand, there is supply. Without demand, nobody would still liked to stay there. Fiji released a few camera which designed very modern, it turns out very popular in Asia. Shall we keep the old history or just look forward?

Kony 2012

This year is not only the year for presidential election in the United States, but also a year might be the end for Kony, a man who is a dictator and killed millions of people by others. There is a group has advertised a compaine to let US government to get into this issue in Africa, and help to save the people becuase it seems a right thing to do. They have posted a 30 minutes long video, that shows how bad of this man have done to African People. The Producer encourage people to speak loud this name in public and donate if they can to encourge US congress to assign US military to arrest Kony. However, on the other side there is a group people say the short film was a lie. People came from africa did not have idea about such thing, Then there is a fight between those two groups,

What I want to say is the producer used really good format to tell the story and it did make me feel sympathy just after watched the film. Then I donated 10 dollar on their website. Then I realized this was not necessary, I could have spend money in some place better.

Texting and Driving....It Can Wait

Nokia Lumia 900 has dragged so much attention recently, ATT is plan to spend more than 150 million dollar on advertising campaign. However, what interest me was the words appear on the phone every time when I see it when some one is doing an unboxing online. It seems ATT and Nokia is trying to use this slogan to attract or create a emotional sympathy or awareness about driving safe. They took very serious attitude and responsibility to advertising such awareness. Everyone should do it, but lots of people ignore the possibility of getting in to the risk when texting while driving.  From my opinon, after seen this series of advertising commercials, I was really shocked that people got into serious trouble by texting while driving, It reminds me that I had done the same thing before. This commercial really touching and works effectively. ATT and Nokia gives an impression that they are the company who really care about their customers and brought up the social reprehensibility related to the service and goods they provided.

Gas prices actually start falling around the US

Good News, Gasoline prices are starting to fall. According to Associated Press, after a fourth-month surge pushed gasoline to nearly $4 per gallon in early April, drivers, politicians and economists worried that gasoline prices might soar past all-time highs, denting wallets, angering voters and dragging down an economy that is struggling to grow.

Instead, pump prices have dropped 6 cents over two weeks to a national average on Friday of $3.88. Experts say gasoline could fall another nickel or more next week, saving drivers about $2 per fill-up.

Drivers might also get to say something they haven't since October 2009 — they're paying less at the pump than they did a year ago.

Did they copy?

Today I have seen a new says that in China, Nokia has first time dropped its market share from top one to second place. Sumsung become the number one highest market share in phone business.

Personally I used to like Samsung a lot when I was in middle school, because its design looks pretty good, and very fashion. However, I do not like Samsung in the last few year, because I think they have copied a lot from Apple's design. As you can see the features from their products , there is a strong relationship to relate their products with Apple's. Expect a display product from Samsung, which they are really good at this, I do not buy any other products from  this company.

Nokia, however, on the other side, has struggled long time to find its own way to compete with Apple and Sumsung, it turns out it didn't work well as they expected. They have lost large amount of money in smartphone or high end phone business. the things I learned from Nokia is that they tried to become a company like Apple, but they still prefer to stay with its own creative design, even if it did not response well in the market, but as a result after so many years of competition, Apple did not sue Nokia, but declared a huge war with Samsung.

So, my question is, is this really the era that the person who steal from others could make a good business? Who is gonna be a winner  in the end?

Creative or Conservative?

Recently, I have read a news about Nokia's company value has dropped from 110 billion euro in 2006 to 11billion dollar euro this year 2012.

What's happened to Nokia? Is the company lack of creativity?

To me, in my own experience, Nokia was always being famous for reliable, tough resistance, cheap, and easy to use. However, compared to Apple iphone and Samsung's smartphone, Nokia really did not find themselves a spot in smart phone business. Is Nokia failed to invent advanced technology or failed to understand the market demand? Actually, what I have heard is the problem of their management team. For example, apple is the first one who introduce multi-touch technology and first one who brought app store to make it become popular. However, Nokia has actually developed those technologies before Apple, but it is just management did not want to introduce  too soon. Then Apple took the chance and succeed. This thing actually happens to a lot of technology companies that has a great number of advanced technologies but did not perceived that customer want. they are afraid to introduce new products and not wanted to give up the old technologies. Some technologies are too old to use and also impact on system performance.

Apple, a company likes to introduce new technology and also brave to abandon old ones. Such as they are the first one who brought CD rom, now they are the first one who decide to abandon such storage medium. because they always tend to introduce the latest technology to customers, their company has increased its value to most valuable company in the world.  People go crazy on what their products.