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Android Pub : Getting To Know Me

Hi, I'm Android Pub. No, I don't frequent English watering holes at the day's end (though I did spend a good time studying in the UK), Android Pub is just my handle as the publisher of Android Alliance - The Philippine's First Online Magazine for Android Users.

Why I'm writing this intro is for all readers of Android Alliance PH to understand where I'm coming from as I share my stories on my Android journey. After having written about my first Android, a Motorola Dext, I was about to write about my second Android. Then it dawned on me that it would be best to tell you the story of what I do and why I need two Androids - ALWAYS. So here goes...

A little bit about myself. I'm an advertising executive. I used to work in a multinational ad agency in Makati. I left the agency a few years ago to slip into semi-retirement. As I write, I am at the threshold of starting a new engagement with another multinational agency, not as an employee but as a strategic alliance partner.

I am also a multipreneur and a Certified Digital Marketer. I blog. I write. I take pics...loads of them. If you're wondering what these pics are, these are mainly pictures of the billboard advertisements in EDSA, SLEX, C5, NLEX and elsewhere in the country. I take a lot of pics of advertisements as well when travelling abroad. Thus a phone with a good quality camera is very necessary.

I also play golf and usually work while playing. Hence the need for a phone that is easy to use in between shots when people I work with bug me via phone or SMS in the middle of the game.

This picture shows me planking on the golf course while my son and his teacher from school are watching. This is how I literally take Steve Jobs' urging to Stay Foolish.

More about me soon as it leads up to "My Second Android".

Cheers!
Android Pub
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Still Innovating, Wherever You Are -- Rest In Peace, Steve Jobs


 He was a tech icon, and the hero of most of the IT industry’s greats.

He was the man who revolutionized computers and how the Average Joe used them; he was the man who saw the potential for regular people to own computers. With friend Steve Wozniak, they took what used to be amachine that could fill the whole room, and turned it into something that every family in America could have. He was the man who envisioned that every family would have a personal computer, just as TV sets were present in every home. He was a man who changed the world in a niche you could hardly call “little.”

Steve Jobs led a remarkable life as a visionary. No one could envision or spot beautiful machines as sharply as he can. He knew what makes a machine an art form, and with this, he steered the company that brought the Mac, the iMac, the Macbooks, the iPod, the iPhones and the iPads to the world. If Acer, Samsung and the other computer companies are striving to create computers that have chiclet keyboards, it’s the Macbook’s fault. If you notice more and more laptop models sporting the “no visible screws” look, or a wafer-thin, sexy profile, be sure that it’s the Macbook Air’s fault.

In short, Steve elevated personal computing into an art form. He made sure that his side of tech would become more than just a utilitarian industry. He made sure that it’ll be a utilitarian industry that came in eye candy form. He made computers sexy.



We join Google and the rest of the world in saying:

Rest in peace, Steve. We’re sure you’ll still be innovating, wherever you are.
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