Reading all the news about the Apple, it’s hard not to feel like the world as we know it has just changed forever.

Ever Since the Verdict of the Apple vs. Samsung, I’m trolled by friends around for owning a copied product or it’s just another Korean product which is well marketed. But my attempts of convincing them with all the information I have got isn’t successful either.  It’s all personal; let me give opinions about the verdict.

A federal jury ruled on Friday that Samsung has to pay more than $1 billion in damages for infringing on five Apple patents. In an “internal memo” released post verdict, Samsung says it will counter-sue in order to protect the company. Doubts are certain about Apple may have got judicial support since the verdict was in US (who knows attorney may be an Apple freak).

Money aside — the jury said Samsung should pay $1.05 billion to Apple as a result of the finding — the big question on everyone’s mind is what this all will mean for Samsung, Android, and the larger mobile world. Countless blogs and websites are weighing in, predicting everything from the end of Samsung’s sales dominance to a radical change in how manufacturers approach Android. Some are even saying the move will help Microsoft’s Windows Phone get the love and attention it so desperately desires.

For all the hubbub about the billion-dollar jury decision in the Apple-Samsung lawsuit (and despite Apple moving forward with a bid to ban eight specific mobile gadgets), we’re not even close to a final resolution of round one in this case — let alone an appeal.

This is when we’ll find out whether Apple gets to block those eight phones from store shelves, or whether Samsung’s counter-arguments — yet to be filed, but due in the next two weeks — are more persuasive.

The one good thing that could come from this money- and time-wasting mess? It’s bringing an awful lot of attention to just how absurd the U.S. patent system really is. Apple “owns” the concepts of minor UI interactions? It alone possesses the right to “determine when a user is using one finger to scroll versus two or more fingers to zoom”? The list of silly-sounding claims goes on and on, but you get the point: The trial is bringing a renewed focus to the need for a major overhaul to our current patent system, and that’s something we can all celebrate.

Shit on your face people behind lawsuit and the jury who approved it.

Technology may move at the speed of electrons, but the law tends to slouch stubbornly along like — well, like an ass.

On an auspicious day of Independence of my beloved country I woke up little earlier in the noon to the phone call of my mom, who yelled at me for my laziness even on the holy day of “Independence day”, I was hesitant accept it as holy day or what ever equivalent it can be labelled with. Blame on my ignorance or even call me non-patriotic(I deserve a bash) but so does million other adults like me spread over the country who have same way celebrating their Country’s independence. They are either unaware of the importance of the day or fed up with the system. I belong to latter group of fed up pies(I’m sure there’s huge Que).

One such pie(happens to be my buddy) shared his hatred on his FB wall, with attracted tens of likes and comments from like minds, ensuring our fed up pie numbers at large. That whole conversation left me wondering why we all have problem with the system and few even claimed that extended British Raj would have escalated us to greater heights(Nothing wrong in the point). 

At the end of the day, does that mean struggle for independence by our great predecessors went vain. I’m scared that few people may agree with it, in that case souls of those great people may never pardon us all. 

We all are reasons for our gross or net failure as a Nation as whole..

My friend quoted “I am sorry today about our country, but there is still hope for us. As we have had for past sixty six years. A hope that the real independence is actual reality to us than just a mere celebration which we forget tomorrow. It’s high time we introspect about our system, which has not provided social security, equality, lawfulness and real freedom”. 

what does real independence day mean, what was 1947 then and 1991(which many businessmen claim real independence).. 

I think we celebrated our Independence 40 long yrs without doing much to the country.

Right after the independence, Indian leaders not only romanced and celebrated the moment but fell in love with it like newly wed adults with indefinite honeymoon. It was an antipathy moment for Indian leaders to favor protectionism and closed policies making it impossible for any country to do business with India. The socialist mindset created the License Raj and corruption simply became a fact of life. While many other countries continued to be a post-industrial society India’s growth stalled. Things got really bad. In 1991 Manmohan Singh(i’ve heard this name somewhere else too) opened up the economic policy that attracted foreign direct investment and the nation started to see the growth that it never saw post-independence. What happened in India in the last twenty years should have happened soon after its independence. till early nineties we were no different from the ones we were in late 40’s. I assume with liberated trade and economic policy, sudden inflow of capital made the so called leaders to grab the big fish in the name of corruption. There started India’s biggest obstacle of the day.

This corruption is the script writer in the aftermaths whatever have happened till now and to all the things gonna happen in the future. As Nandan Nilekani puts it in his book Imagining India, India got its real independence in 1991. This is when India’s journey from socialism to capitalism started to shape up. India’s foreign cash reserve, which was $1B in 1991 grew to today’s amount of $286B.  This growth(with increased corruption at ends to meet)accelerated even more between 2004 and 2008 with GDP growing close to a double digit rate. India became an unstoppable force and yet again, one more time, the country fell in love with that moment instead of working hard on making crucial policy decisions to sustain that growth.

What I personally see is significant untapped potential and uncanny enthusiasm amongst the Indians. I am excited about the future. It’s easy to latch on to that “moment” India saw in the last few years, but the key is not to take anything for granted and continuously challenge the government for policy reforms and motivate individuals to surge ahead despite of obvious challenges that the country faces.

At last, i’d say we all are culprits and reasons for the reason why we are today in the one or the other way. We should start the change or transition i would like to say has to start from inner self, it will be reflected on the whole. Personally, Hope to see the change by waking up early for the next independence day, not really, as i hope to do more than that.

JAI HIND!!!

With all due credits to all the quotes, individuals i have referred in this blog… Thank you,,,

Few weeks back one of my friend Dr Arjun BT(@drarjunbt), Who is very tech savvy Doc and hyperactive guy on social media tweeted “Top question to ask yourself before starting a blog – Does the world need another?”. he was trolling on the number of bloggers and he was right too. Any person with little knowledge about current affairs and access to internet will make him a blogger. blame on the free time he is provided with or the number of platforms encouraging people to bloggers.There are huge list of blogging sites with almost same functionality and intended towards jobless jacks. 

Tumblr is the latest one to join that list,

Not too long ago, I discovered the world of Tumblr. I’d been aware of it for a while, but had written it off as the domain of teenage hipsters looking to assert their identities through the endless lazy re-blogging of stuff made by other people.

(For the record, I still sort of think that’s what Tumblr is about…but now that I’m a part of it too, I’ve had to reconfigure my judgement into something more positive.)

Out of curiosity finally i finished signing up on the microblogging platform Tumblr for my next scribbling. If you’re interested in social media and blogging then you may find this interesting!  it’s not terribly long…

For people uninitiated to the world of Tumblr, a simple explanation is that Tumblr is a microblogging site used to promote the creation, curation, mashed and sharing of mixed-media content across a social network. This process is made easy for Tumblr users by means of a simple “dashboard” interface, which allows for users to add content to their “tumbleblogs”, or share content from other user’s blogs, with one click. Tumblr, unlike its dominant social media counterparts, Facebook and Twitter, allows for seamless, streamlined multi-media content creation, curation and sharing while retaining the ability for users to connect with their fellow users on an interpersonal level, even though Tumblr is not first-and-foremost a social platform.

                                                                                                           Tumblr has streamlined and reinvented both social networking as well content sharing. Taking cues from many of its social media predecessors and adapting them to the immediate and ever-changing nature of today’s Internet, Tumblr has utterly simplified for its users the process of generating and sharing content with other like-minded internet dwellers.

It is perhaps Tumblr’s overwhelming sense of community that has come to spearhead its resounding staying power in the social media landscape. As opposed to a user feeling like a cog in a seemingly boundless machine (as might the users of Facebook and Tweet), Tumblr users are enabled to create their own sense of identity and community internally and find, with great ease, other users with whom they can share content, ideas, and relatable human experience/sentiment that is simply not possible when dealing with the mainstream powerhouse social media platforms.

Happy bugging others, Oopss i meant blogging……