Does anyone remember Lemonade Stand? That was the first game I played on the Apple ][. I would love to have that game redone on my iPhone. Would that be sweet? I love when old games are ported to new devices... like PacMan as a iGoogle widget (flash). Cool.
That's so crazy it all doesn't make sense. It would be hard to believe that that many units are hanging out in inventory. In fact, its not believable. Something doesn't compute
Great review but I don't believe what they say about the 8 hour charge time on the battery. They've got a faulty battery on their unit... info on MacBook Air battery here.
what bugs me? the fact that they too quickly obsolete products like my sweet iPhone. what also pisses me off? the fact that there isn't a new 16gb or 3g iphone. LOL!
Does anyone realize how many entities know about an Apple release before its out there. There are the hardware companies, the software companies, PR agencies. Apple tries to keep a lid on it but I doubt its easy to do. How much teamwork was involved is questionable, why work together? Who would like to break the story. I found references to the Macbook Air in several places before it existed, e.g., http://personafile.com/macbook-air.html had this page 2 hours before Jobs mentioned it. how?
A must read, pretty interesting, though typical inside Apple story. The iPhone was the easiest product to develop but Steve Jobs willed it into existance.
When does it come out? And does it has copy and paste? The GPS thing for the iPhone will be pretty cool. I think I will actually use the maps thing now.
I am not sure how they can get the speed advertised. Also who will support this. Has Apple signed on? Sure need a faster interface to sync crap to my iPhone especially with video.
Linux on the desktop isn't viable unless Google itself brands a flavor and produces a PC for the masses. Period. End of story. Sorry to say it, buts its clear a day.
-sammy w/ iPhone
Am I missing something here? Seems like the sign the app approach, while adding security, etc. is also about charging for the apps. Not that I personally have anything against that, but will freeware apps be available? I don't think I'll just be able to write an app, and give it to friends. I will have to go through Apple, right?
newton II is already out on the market, its called the iPhone. That's what newton was supposed to be, remember the tag line, the personal communicator. newton's biggest problem was not hand writing recognition (which, yes, sucked and which apple's marketing spun out of control on) but rather size. everyone inside apple wanted it smaller, but the components of the day couldn't make that happen. now ask yourself, which added features did newton have that the iPhone doesn't? the iPhone is practically a superset of newton minus the developer story (meaning iPhone is presently a closed box). i suspect that apple's so-called-move (rumor) into the newton space is simply the next generation of iPhone.
Stupid article. I use Vista, its fine, not perfect, but certainly better than XP. Does it use more memory than XP? Well, duh f**king duh. I repeat stupid article. Microsoft will scrap Vista as soon as Apple scrap OS X.
Perhaps Apple is taking an 'on purpose' posture here and has worked very hard (some say the reason for the delay of this firmware update) to make sure a hacked (unlocked) iPhone is bricked. I kind of doubt it (I think they are getting this outcome for 'free'). While I am no expert in hacking techniques used in this instance, I am quite familiar with the various models to hack into a ROM and vector to some other code. It would seem to me that Apple would have had to go out of its way to make sure that these hacks continued to work on a go forward basis. And whatever you believe their motives, they sure as hell wouldn't spend a cyle making sure something that they generally don't want to work, continues to work. Perhaps they make this new release more hacker proof, in a way we want them to do that. We constantly beat up Microsoft because of the holes left in their software, leading to viruses, etc. and we expect better of Apple. The fact is that we can't have it both ways, a bullet proof but hack available iPhone. For the record, I hate that Apple locked the iPhone in the first place.
Apple is not violating this law. Often people read the article about the law and not the law itself. Apple is not bound to provide warranty coverage on an altered product any more than one would expect a car manufacturer to warranty a car engine if it were altered under its warranty period. This is much to do about nothing, no one will succesfully press this to the point of suit because any reasonable lawyer knows Apple will prevail. Moreover, and perhaps more importantly, any fool that "bricks" his iPhone through modifications and then doesn't restore the "factory" firmware before service/etc. deserves what they get.
This is an odd argument. Apple can do what it wants with its platform(s) and the consumer can do what he wants: buy or not buy it. Go buy an open phone if that's what you want. If you hate Apple policy, there is plenty of consumer choice (I can name dozens of smartphones that are "open" or support multiple carriers). I think this argument is really about: Apple is cool on one hand (its products) and not so cool on the other hand (its biz practices)... and people want it to be cool on both fronts, but like many things in life, you can wish it to be true, but doing so doesn't make it so. Personally I love my iPhone (the product) and basically live with the fact that Apple, the company, can be a real pain in the ass! Love hate relationship.
-sammy / loving my iPhone
I think Woz is a great engineer and certainly a valley legend and I respect him highly. But why he finds it necessary to opine on Apple's marketing decisions is beyond me. I guess he just has an opinion and his soapbox is bigger than most.
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Does anyone remember Lemonade Stand? That was the first game I played on the Apple ][. I would love to have that game redone on my iPhone. Would that be sweet? I love when old games are ported to new devices... like PacMan as a iGoogle widget (flash). Cool.
That's so crazy it all doesn't make sense. It would be hard to believe that that many units are hanging out in inventory. In fact, its not believable. Something doesn't compute
Great review but I don't believe what they say about the 8 hour charge time on the battery. They've got a faulty battery on their unit... info on MacBook Air battery here.
what bugs me? the fact that they too quickly obsolete products like my sweet iPhone. what also pisses me off? the fact that there isn't a new 16gb or 3g iphone. LOL!
This is what Apple wanted to do... put bricked iPhones back into service. They have been having a support nightmare with this.
Does anyone realize how many entities know about an Apple release before its out there. There are the hardware companies, the software companies, PR agencies. Apple tries to keep a lid on it but I doubt its easy to do. How much teamwork was involved is questionable, why work together? Who would like to break the story. I found references to the Macbook Air in several places before it existed, e.g., http://personafile.com/macbook-air.html had this page 2 hours before Jobs mentioned it. how?
I love the new MacBook Air. Everything but the battery that is not removable!
The MacBook Air is great. Perfect for the biz traveler. Love the wifi optical drive. Oh, yea I also ordered the 1.6 MacBook Air one about 1 hour ago!
A must read, pretty interesting, though typical inside Apple story. The iPhone was the easiest product to develop but Steve Jobs willed it into existance.
This is a good article. Looking forward to developing iPhone apps with next week announced SDK. This is going to be cool.
When does it come out? And does it has copy and paste? The GPS thing for the iPhone will be pretty cool. I think I will actually use the maps thing now.
I am not sure how they can get the speed advertised. Also who will support this. Has Apple signed on? Sure need a faster interface to sync crap to my iPhone especially with video.
Why would anyone expect Apple to not break the hacked iPhones. Its what they do! /sammy with iPhone
Linux on the desktop isn't viable unless Google itself brands a flavor and produces a PC for the masses. Period. End of story. Sorry to say it, buts its clear a day. -sammy w/ iPhone
I hope people realize this whole thing is a joke. - iPhone
and now my iPhone will be wanting a grande non-fat latte and will be able to order it itself.
looking forward to the iPhone SDK, some info at iPhone
This is already in Vista... right? -sammy / http://personafile.com/Apple-MacBook-13-inch-display-2.16-GHz-Intel-Core-2-Duo-Black-MB063LLA-P885909100187.htm
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- sammy iPhone; Touch; 1st gen shuffle
Stupid article. I use Vista, its fine, not perfect, but certainly better than XP. Does it use more memory than XP? Well, duh f**king duh. I repeat stupid article. Microsoft will scrap Vista as soon as Apple scrap OS X.
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This is an odd argument. Apple can do what it wants with its platform(s) and the consumer can do what he wants: buy or not buy it. Go buy an open phone if that's what you want. If you hate Apple policy, there is plenty of consumer choice (I can name dozens of smartphones that are "open" or support multiple carriers). I think this argument is really about: Apple is cool on one hand (its products) and not so cool on the other hand (its biz practices)... and people want it to be cool on both fronts, but like many things in life, you can wish it to be true, but doing so doesn't make it so. Personally I love my iPhone (the product) and basically live with the fact that Apple, the company, can be a real pain in the ass! Love hate relationship. -sammy / loving my iPhone
I think Woz is a great engineer and certainly a valley legend and I respect him highly. But why he finds it necessary to opine on Apple's marketing decisions is beyond me. I guess he just has an opinion and his soapbox is bigger than most.