One of the blog posts on my classmate Lulu Shu’s blog had caught my attention. The title was named Why Apple?. I am a big Apple fan, in loved with every one of their products, the iPods, iPhones, iMacs, Macbooks, etc. But I have never thought of the question before. A few years ago, people are starting to get crazy with Apple products. Some people even started to admire and follow Steve Jobs, the big innovator of the brand. However, with the past away of Steve Jobs last month, people are questioning whether Apple would still have the amazing ideas of inventions. Also, the recent new products from Android and Blackberry might have effects on Apple’s sales of the iPhones.

As we all know, the iPhones and Blackberrys are close competitors in the smartphone market. Although their target markets are different, where the iPhones tend more to the youths and Blackberrys are more for the professionals, this distinguish line are becoming blurry. Business professionals are slowly changing and adapting to the popular iPhones, while the Millennials would not reject the Blackberrys when choosing a smartphone. Due to this fact, I guess the two companies have to be more creative to invent new stuff to attract the customers.

RIM has made the move first. The company has recently announced the collaboration with Porsche Design of their new limited edition product, the Blackberry P’9981. This move definitely could help the company to build a good brand image. Tt also could establish a sense of luxury on the product because of the price they are charging. Apparently, this new collaborated product would be selling only in Porsche Design stores at a price of approximately $2,000 each.

On the other hand, Apple’s next move probably would be the iPhone 5. We shall wait patiently and see what new things Apple has for this long-waited generation of iPhone.

After reading Eliza Lee‘s blog post on virtual subway grocery store, the rapidly developing knowledge of technology that us human holds has really amazed me. Without actually spending extra time in a grocery store, people with smartphone can easily and conveniently buy their groceries. This can even let consumers effectively use their time while waiting for subway.

Speaking from a similar standpoint, there are other high-tech inventions that designers and marketers come up with. One of such is the Nike innovation of the Nike Air Mag “Marty McFly”. What this innovation patent about is that the company has came up with the idea of a new shoes with an automatic lacing system. YES! IT’S A AUTOMATIC LACING SYSTEM. With this new technological shoes, you don’t have to spend extra time dealing with your shoelaces, or worrying that they might fall lose again. Just leave this problem to your shoes, and it will solve it for you. The expected date of the product is somewhere between now and 2015.

Can you imagine how this world will be like years after with all these technological changes? Some might think this is just totally awesome, but some others might be in doubt.

Are we that lazy to even have products tying our shoelaces for us?