Don't Get Excited About Activation Lock

I should point out that I am yet to use iOS 7 beta. Therefore, this article is partly speculative but rest assured that some concrete facts are included as well.

Apple’s new anti-theft feature in iOS 7, Activation Lock, is being hailed as the absolute deterrent to phone theft. As mentioned earlier, I am yet to try iOS 7 out but from what I can surmise, Activation Lock is anything but perfect.

A Shortage of Perfect Trilogies

Hollywood has become infatuated with trilogies. Once a movie or a movie character shows a cult following, the studios almost always turn it into a franchise. The reason behind this is not far-fetched. They get to give fans more of the first movie and their characters and of course, they get to make more money from the budding franchise. There are those times when the decision to make a trilogy is not motivated by the above reasons but by the source material. That is, if a novel is adapted for the big screen, it follows that subsequent sequel novels will also be adapted except if the first movie failed to perform at the box office. That being said, it seems delivering the perfect trilogy has for the most part, eluded Hollywood.

This Cartoon is Better Than The Dark Knight Rises

There is a cartoon; a brief animation clip. It is actually the trailer for a video game. It is just five minutes long. A little under five minutes actually. This cartoon is the trailer for Batman: Arkham Origins. And it is better than The Dark Knight Rises in many ways. How could a five minute cartoon possibly be better than a movie? Well, it is everything the movie wasn't: dark, gritty, sensible and awesome. Not to rehash, but that travesty called The Dark Knight Rises was not the sequel / conclusion that we deserved neither was it the one that we needed. And it has good sound editing too.

Enjoy.