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Woz Dumps on MacBook Air, iPhone, AppleTV
AcidAUS writes "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak heaped less than lavish praise on the company's iPhone, MacBook Air and Apple TV products when visiting Sydney this morning. Wozniak said he was puzzled by the lack of 3G support on the iPhone and that he didn't believe the MacBook Air would be a hit."
Really?
FTA: Wozniak, who has moved on to new ventures since Apple but is still an employee and shareholder...
I would say that he is earning off of these products.
Woz also states in the same interview that he's tired of reporters taking his comments out of context and making him look like an Apple-hater.
Quote: "[Jobs] calls me and he says he doesn't like something that I was reputed to have said. But he gets it out of context. A reporter's seized on a comment and strung along with that. I'm very positive on Apple, but I'll also point out things that could be better, or aren't the way I'd like them to be."
The p-133's weren't first-gen by a long shot.
The 1st-gen Pentiums were P5 (Intel product 80501/ 80500) - 66 and 60 mhz (the 60mhz chips were those that couldn't pass QC at full speed). - .80 micron process. Your p5-133 is either a P54CS or (if its a lappy) a P55C. You skipped both the original P5 and the P54C.
Good thing too - the original P5 was expensive, and slowwwww compared to an AMD 486-120.
I have an iPhone and the EDGE connection is fine. Yeah, it could be faster, but let be honest, I ONLY use EDGE for Maps and the odd web request while in the car (not when I'm driving of course). I'd say 90% of the time the phone is tapped into WiFi somewhere and that's plenty fast. I can see 3G being a draw for some, but that alone is not going to be enough for me to upgrade. I have to agree with the removable battery though. It would be nice to always have one in the cradle ready for a swap out.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws-Plato
I have a two and a half year old Nokia N70 which is one of the oldest 3G phones on the market. I still get over 3 days between recharges. I use my phone quite a lot for web, games, talk and text and as I said, I get 3 days. I don't believe this 'battery life' explanation for 3G on the iPhone, I agree with the poster who said it's for marketing reasons. I mean, look at the iPod photo... It's capable of playing video if you install iPod Linux, yet Apple said it wasn't powerful enough and that's why they didn't include an option for it. Yet, one year later they release the iPod Video. It's BS.
Same as my experience.
I own Samsung Z400 phone, but I don't have a plan that covers 3G. But the network is there. I had to manually turn off 3G, in order to get 3 days battery life instead of 2 day life.
My wife also owns the phone and one of our friends, and all of us benefited from turning 3G capabilities off.
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For me, Trebuchet. The OS X firewall solution is too simplistic, so I had to install something that gave me tighter control of IPFW. After years of working with IPFW, scripts that work just fine on any other OS still don't seem to work correctly on OS X. The wrong rules get prioritized and I have to fiddle around in vi to get what should be a simple list of access rules functioning in a sane manner.
/Applications or ~/Documents. I like to organize my software and documents, but (and this isn't really Apple's fault for the most part) if I try to organize these files so that they are sorted in a logical (to me) manner, many third party apps just stop working, and Software Update stops correctly locating Apple software for updates. Oh, and WHY does the dictionary app have to go in Applications root in order to be found by the context menu and various services? Apple designed around fixed paths decades ago. And yet we see so many fixed path issues persisting into 10.5!
Then, of course, there's the issue of EVERYTHING getting dumped into either
The iPhone didn't change the face of the cell phone market.
The actual evidence contradicts your random opinions. According to Google and other web tracking sites, iPhone users search and browse the web between 2 and 10 times more than any other type of smart phone. That sounds like a game-changer to me.
I bought the iPod Touch because I didn't need a new phone, but even that is a game-changer. Until you carry it around for a few days you don't realize how much you'd use it.
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I agree on the build quality. The hard drive in my PowerBook G4 died back in November and I decided to upgrade to one of the new Intel Macs. Now the PowerBook was the first Mac I ever owned but I found it to be an extremely durable machine. With the amount of abuse I put it through I was thoroughly impressed that it was still working just perfectly, although it is dented in certain areas.
So when I upgraded I decided to go with a MacBook, partly because I didn't want a 15" screen (my PowerBook was 12") and partly because I didn't want to spend a ton. Well I'm typing on my PowerBook right now as I had to send in my MacBook after some things went wrong. The exhaust fan is rattling, the hard drive was having really weird problems, and the white plastic case (which must be manufactured by Mattel) was developing hairline cracking. Now I understand that sometimes people get faulty components, but the case cracking was unacceptable. Furthermore their tech support (which I never had to deal with with my PowerBook) was terrible. You can only call their customer support for 90 days after buying it, and after being thrown around for a bit I drove to an Apple Store where you apparently have to make an appointment to get your laptop fixed. I finally called them again and told them to send me a box to send it to them. Between school, work, and a dying car it was rather infuriating to say the least.
Perhaps the MacBook Pros are better, I don't know. But one thing is for sure, Apple has lost my business. I may prefer OSX for what I do but I'd rather make my own linux distro than buy another product from Apple.