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Interview With iMac designer, Jonathan Ive
rleyton writes "The Independent has an interesting interview with Jonathan Ive, the designer of the new imac (and the iBook, the iPod and original iMac...)" It's actually a pretty interesting
even if you think the new iMac is repulsive. Personally I dig it.
Itroducing iLamp:
http://www.ridiculopathy.com/news_detail.php?di
They could have called it iCon.
It cuts both ways. (design) Icon/I con.
When I use Mac OS X, I can *feel* that somewhere in Cupertino there's an English major who was losing sleep at nights trying to make the text in the dialog boxes as clear and understandable as possible. When was the last time you felt that way about the latest d/l off of sourceforge?
...or Slashdot for that matter.
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Submitted for your approval, an Onion-like story on the subject:
Honey I Melted The iMac
The picture of the iMac with a lamp shade on it is worth the click.
Somehow Jobs' remarks always seem to jumpstart my brain, if nothing else. Of the first iMac he said "It looks like it's from another planet". And oddly enough my first reaction to the new iMac after reading the article was "Hey, its a skutter holding an LCD!". That makes alot more sense if you've ever seen Red Dwarf.
OSX + iTunes Visuals + "Dark Side of the Moon" = Transcendence
Boy, I never thought of that when I bought my laptop. If that laptop LCD drops a pixel or two, I'll be stuck with a proprietary solution that's loaded with all this great hardware, and I'll have to hook up an external monitor, which will ruin the reason I got it in the first place...
I'd also like to learn more about that $99 wireless option for Wintel PCs. Are Linux drivers available?
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What non-standard components are you talking about?
Everything in the iMac except the screen, the OS, and the motherboard, is a conventional, PC useable component.
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Personally I keep slipping into the thought that it's a first person recounting, what with all the things like "Ive designed it as small as possible to maximise the distance from screen to CPU" and "Ive anonymously paced the show floor, watching people's reactions". Betcha the writer had to turn off the Auto Correct in his word processor to keep it from adding an apostrophe in the name, too.
He wrote a few Applescripts, downloaded a few more, and now he can control his computer from anywhere in the house.
I played around with the same thing. The one problem I had was when I said" "Computer play classical music" (which would launch iTunes the desired playlist) that was the last command I could give it. Once it was playing music it would get confused by it's own audio output. I would think that would be a pretty easy thing to fix - just have the computer cancel out it's own output when processing audio input. Unfortunately Apple does not seem so interested with speech recognition - which is too bad, with their control over hardware and software they could probably put together a machine with a very powerful speech UI.
See. They're not more expensive because of propietary parts of pretty cases. They're more expensive because they get chicks. Geesh. You guys need to look deeper into the computer. Pretty cases and ghz only do so much, but female magnetism?! I'd glady pay twice as much as they're selling for.
Man, if that's all you see you are clearly not in the potential market base. What is it with slashdotters making some weak-ass comparison with every new thing that comes along, saying "That's nothing new - I once heard about something vaguely similar in a pull-it-out-of-my-ass sorta way, so what's the big deal?"