Is tech slower or faster in the summer? When I say, “slower or faster,” I am talking about how many new things happen in the tech world. When tech is slow, not many things are happening and well, it can get a bit boring. When tech is fast, developers are coming out with new apps, such as Apple releasing and announcing new things, and the tech world is exciting. The question is, does tech “speed” change or is consistent at different times? In this post, I will focus on summer.
Students take the summer off from school and usually go away for the summer on some sort of trip. Most of the time, they don’t happen to bring their computers. This slows down tech in many ways. Also, a lot of people online are students. These are the people hanging around forums, using youtube, digg, etc. There may be a big slow down in these sort of sites because of all the students who go away. Also, many developers are students, so there may be a slowdown in the production of apps. Then again, there are a lot of students who take the summer off and not go away. These students have a ton of free time without homework and school stress. They roam around the web finding things to do and taking up new projects. I think this may even it out a bit.
Freelancers are like students who do not go to school (that didn’t make much sense, haha). They make a living doing work online at their own pace. They have no boss giving them timelines, due dates, etc. I think summer is like a day at the job for freelancers. It is no different from spring, fall or winter. They have just as much time and just as much will to work. Hey, maybe the heat gets to them and makes them want to sleep longer. Who knows….
Summer for company workers is another day at the Job. But in terms of tech, I have to argue that Summer makes a difference. Apple is one of the biggest tech companies in the world and they are always releasing things in the summer. For example, July 11th is going to be HUGE. We’re talking MobileMe, iPhone 3g and iPhone 2.0! Last year was iPhone 1.0. I don’t remember the years before, but the point is, summer is big for Apple lovers.
My conclusion is that tech is FASTER in the summer for a few reasons:
1) Apple releases products and that causes a ton of hype. Whether or not students are out on vacation, Apple’s announcements are still much more powerful than anything students can do. If you think about it, Apple is sort of is in control of how fast tech is. If Apple has been boring, a lot of people get bored themselves. Even I have trouble writing sometimes when there is no Apple news.
2) Summer is mostly the same for everyone. Freelancers and other companies are not changed by summer. It doesn’t matter how good you feel being on vacation (assuming you are a student) it is the same for everyone else in this tech world. These companies keep working and the freelancers keep working as well.
3) Students have more time to waste. Students like me are going to come up with as many ways to kill time as possible. The best way to kill time is to do something fun, like writing. Even really smart students will start projects and end up with cool new apps. Even though the lack of students away from the computer slows some tech down, the time spent by the students online in the summer makes up for it.
What do you think? Does summer feel slow or fast so far? Is tech slower or faster in the summer? Comment and start up a discussion!
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