Apple

the iPhone is NOT a netbook, Mr. Jobs

October 22, 2008

Steve Jobs confirmed what I have long suspected: he has no clue at all what a typical consumer’s usage-model is for their personal computers: A recurring question among Apple watchers for decades has been, “When is Apple going to introduce a low-cost computer? Mr. Jobs answered that decades-old complaint by stating, “We don’t know how [...]

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Calvin and Jobs

August 6, 2008

Hobbes has been replaced by Steve Jobs: Brilliant. I especially love how Jobbes turns into a stuffed toy when the parents or others are around. The artwork is perfect, but the comic has a sharp edge, too: Calvin: Jeez! How come all your stuff so expensive, Jobs? Jobs: Well, Calvin, it’s carefully put together by [...]

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for great justice

July 4, 2008

Steve Gillmor celebrates Independence Day by heralding the arrival of the Enterprise iPhone (or ePhone) by Apple. I guess I was wrong, the Singularity and Transhumanism really are here after all.

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two sticks and an apple

January 14, 2008

I’m Mac curious. And while I’m not losing any sleep over how the hair on my head can be fuller with iTonic, which mammals will start flying first, or any other airy announcements likely to come tomorrow, I’m excited nonetheless. Not fan-blind giddy, but excited enough to add a couple extra feeds to my RSS [...]

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I give up

January 9, 2008

I tried to use the Netflix live-movie streaming service to watch Ghost in the Shell:Stand Alone Complex and was rewarded for it with this: that was after I was told that Firefox was incompatible, then asked by Internet Explorer to download three things and install two others, and after jumpin through all those hoops, got [...]

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the DRM drama, act VII

January 4, 2008

Cause: In legal documents in its federal case against Jeffrey Howell, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer. The industry’s lawyer in the [...]

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the Redwood in their eyes

October 23, 2007

Brian approvingly quotes Evariste’s sneering disdain for Microsoft’s Zune campaign: This is sooo pathetic. Can you bear it? It’s unbearable. The contempt oozing from every pore of Microsoft for their customers, that not only would the marketing team think of this, but that Gates would approve the idea. “Sure, go ahead and put a fake [...]

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brilliant

September 10, 2007

Ringo talks to The Steve about The Beatles on iTunes. True story, FSJ assures us: He goes, “Oh there’s always something next, innit? We had the vinyl records, and then the cassettes and the eight tracks, and the CDs, and now there’s your iTunes, but really I think we’ve missed that one. We’ve just waited [...]

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Big Brother Steve

September 7, 2007

too good to pass up. Fifty years from now people will look back and mark this date as the turning point when the shackles of 20th-century media and telephony and film and TV and print were thrown off, shrugged away like so much heavy useless armor. And you, Apple faithful, will tell your grandchildren that [...]

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O Apple, why hast thou forsaken us?

September 6, 2007

I don’t think Apple is doooomed (h/t to Brian for the meme) but it’s clear that Apple is losing some of its focus on what its users want in its drive to become a media company rather than a computer company. There’s a lengthy article over at Tech Digest that looks at the current Mac [...]

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