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Even the Best Get It Wrong Sometimes

Posted on 1 February 2005 | Leave a comment

There’s a discussion on Slashdot about an article detailing Apple’s 10 greatest failures. The article itself is suffering mightily from the /. affect, so here’s a link to a mirror on MacCreate. This is a fun read and a walk down memory lane. Yes, I remember it well, where I was, when I saw my first MacTV….

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But is it safe to taunt it?

Posted on 11 January 2005 | Leave a comment

I love this little disclaimer from the Apple iPod shuffle page:

Do not eat iPod shuffle.

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More on Apple iPhone, More or Less Official

Posted on 16 December 2004 | Leave a comment

According to this bit from Forbes on-line, Apple and Motorola have leaked some quasi-official news about a phone their going to launch together.

Gimmie gimmie gimmie!

The big value add seems to be that one will be able to take a few iTunes along with you on the phone. To me this is not the biggest deal in the world, but I think we can expect Apple to make sure that the user interface and physical design of the phone will be sexxxy.

The Forbes bit makes a big stink about Bluetooth enabling users to bypass high-price data networks and talks about a Verizon requirement that Motorola disable Bluetooth on a phone they developed for Verizon. The last two phones I’ve had both included Bluetooth, which enabled me to bypass the carrier network to exchange files with my Mac and PC. This isn’t a deal killer by any stretch, and a well-designed phone is only going to encourage customers to use the data functionality. Considering Apple’s experience with media content for digital devices I would suspect there would be plenty of data to fill up carriers spectrum for customers using this phone.

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Religious Zealotry?

Posted on 12 December 2004 | Leave a comment

Perhaps I’m letting my Macintosh religion get the best of me, but I have to take a bit of an issue with this line from the VoIP Watch blog entry Andy posted about the fusion of AT&T and Intel:


Intel already is inside every PC and PDA that matters.

My religious zealotry aside, I can’t help but question the ability of this joint venture to do anything really beneficial. Intel’s role in Wi-Fi is largely peripheral and somewhat opportunistic in my eyes (the Centrino marketing campaign is little more than an attempt to brand Wi-Fi as an Intel creation). AT&T have been showing a frustrating tendency to shift their strategy for bypassing the RBOCs every year or so (Cable, anyone? UNE, anyone? Dixie cups a strings, anyone?). Add to this the fact that the powers that be at AT&T still dont really get IP even after all these years.

Add to this the rousing success that Cometa, the joint venture of AT&T, Intel and IBM, which was supposed to set the Wi-Fi hotspot world on fire, somehow only managed to launch press releases. Theres not a great track record of success for either of these companies in the space into which they now both tread.

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An Apple iPhone?

Posted on 3 December 2004 | Leave a comment

Apple iPhone….. arrrrhhhhlllllll…. (picture Homer Simpson drooling over a forbidden donut, unexplained bacon or pressed peanut sweepings).

Please please please let it have bluetooth and Wi-Fi on board.. One can only imagine the sexy features that the iPhone would have and how it might integrate with my Mac or my iPod.

I will switch to ANY US carrier that offers this if Cingular should be silly enough not to offer it. This is assuming, of course, that the rumors are true, which is very far from certain.

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Do You iPod Here Often?

Posted on 19 November 2004 | Leave a comment

If the New York Post is to be believed, the SoHo Apple store has become a good pick-up joint.

I can’t say I’m entirely surprised to see an article like this, except that it’s taken so long. The Apple Store in Clarendon has its own kind of cruisy vibe, or so I had always felt. Perhaps it is the eye candy. Perhaps it is the alllure of all that fine hardware.

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