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New iPods in the offering today? Who knows?
I hope its a nice new shiny MacBook Pro. Or mini laptops bringing back the PowerBook name.
Eh, whatever. I’ll probably refreshing my browser early and often to find out what is going on.
For the Seeds need for deals, here's a link to a story on refurbished
iPhones.http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/20/iphone-now-available-as-refurb/
Almost forgot. It’s iCal day! Did you put your mac under your pillow to receive warm Apple Inc. goodness.
Now the calendar on my iPhone matches the one on my macs, Dorthonion and Doriath!
Unlike CapitolSwell, I am currently an owner of the iPhone. I have no idea why. Mostly, it is because my current phone sucks. Its screen is busted. The vibrate doesn’t work. And that was the last straw.
I bought the hype. Now I just need to sync it up, and connect.
Tomorrow is another big Steve Job’s Keynote speech. He may introduce a new ipod phone or when Leopard will be released. Use this bingo card to play along. You know the rules. Fill in whatever Steve Jobs has said. The winner is the Apple users!
Update:Here’s the definitive Keynote Bingo Card from the originator himself.
Come on Apple. Release an intel desktop soon. Because these damn laptops are looking mighty inviting.
Cringely hears from a friend who heard from Microsoft engineers that IntelMacs will run Windows Vista so fast that there will be no need for OS X. Here’s the scoop:
The story came to me, as many do, from a reader. He’s the night auditor at a hotel, and one evening around 2AM, found across from his Front Desk seven somewhat intoxicated Microsoft engineers who wanted to order morning wakeup calls. They started talking and my reader asked if Intel Macs would ever run Windows? That’s all it took to start a 20-minute presentation (obviously prepared and long-practiced) on that exact subject, how Intel Macs will run Windows Vista very well, thank you. Not only that, but the Microsoft engineers were convinced Vista would be so superior that nobody would need OS X again.
Notice that these dudes were drunk. There is no way Apple would abandon OS X. They will make it sleeker, faster, more secure, easier to program and better UI design before Windows Vista arrives in 2007.
Why would I also want to pay for all new apps? Look at the pro apps make makes: Final Cut Pro, Aperture. Have these been ported to Windows yet? Does windows offer the same functionality as OS X? Can windows offer the same types of programming styles that OS X? Tiger was marketed as Longhorn before Longhorn has arrived. Look at the iLife suite. Besides iTunes, are there ports of GarageBand, iMovie, iPhoto even iWeb coming soon? So if, Apple abandons OS X to be these great (and free at time of purchase) apps must be replaced or you the consumer is taking a step back in functionality.
Cringely has lately been believing that Apple is going to be the next greatest Windows OEM vendor. Why sell shit? OS X will not be dead in a long while. Plus, do you know how many developers that would just piss off?
Yesterday, the Apple world was atwitter (not to mention WallStreet) with the release of BootCamp, the dual boot utility that will let you load Windows XP onto an Intel Mac. As you know, I am an Apple enthusiast. This is good news. Maybe I will have an audience for my software.
Why is it good for Apple? They are a hardware vendor. More people buy Macs the more they profit. Apple is hoping for spill over affect. Come for the XP stay for the OS X. Also, games. Want Apple games? Here’s XP. Suckas!
Anyhow, I really can spout off on this but it’s best to let the Apple pundits take care of the brilliance of this move.
Update:
Here’s some more good info on whether to buy Apple stock. It seems that Apple is going to go big this summer. Continuing on the XP as the “New Classic” here and here.
Another topic we discussed in tonight’s class was the question if “computers inspire creativity?”
Once again the Windows consultants in class said no. They couldn’t ever imagine a computer helping someone be creative. I pity their outlook in life. Why would anyone ever use Windows if this was the case?
One of them said that, while there are software programs that help you create things, computers do nothing to inspire creativity. He said that photoshopping is nothing like painting and that computers are for performing various drudgw work.
I wanted to snap, “Get a Mac!” That will show you the endless possibilities of being creative. Break those chains and get a mac. You don’t know what you’re missing.
Computers are tools. Software programs are tools. In the artist’s hands, these tools can do amazing things. Look at digital animation. That is creative! I think that using them will ignite the creative side of you. You never know until you’ve tried.
This is why I like the Mac platform. There are endless inspiring programs coming out for it. I believe the indy Mac developer world is just like the indy film world of the eighties. It is ready to go big time. If it could just change the developers that are like that Windows consultant, then Apple could rule the world. I think that day is coming.
