Say what you will, but what other company figurehead in recent memory has came out and apologized for other people's willingness to spend their money?
Maybe it was all planned out from the day one though, and if that's the case, I wish Steve would run for the next presidential election. Talk about planing for every contingency...
Not only can it sync with outlook but it also formats your new iMac and installs Windows XP SP2. Apple has realized that MS products are so superb in the areas of efficiency and user friendliness and are focusing on integrating their entire product line-up with whatever products Microsoft has to offer.
As far as other apps it can run, it can crash regularly on MS Word, Excel, and garble up its slideshows so they look like powerpoint, so Microsoft noobs can feel right at home with it.
You seem to forget that constant punishment is just a part of a regular Windows experience. This numbs his sense of irritation, and the subject can literally spend 2 hours in front of a loading bar and feel completely neutral about it.
No offense man, but are you retarded? Here is the gist of your review:
I'm not sure i'm a fan of the new memory management. Vista loves to eat up all of the memory, and then when my apps need it, it slowly gives it to the app however it still triggers swapping as it does so. And it is frustrating and anoying.. not to mention SLOW. The new file explorer hides too much on its tree menu when you open a file explorer. Its hard to explain but it takes a few clicks to get to a drive, or to look through your "favorites". I'm not having too much difficulty with Vista. I have been feeling that file operations were slow... I dont like the DRM features, but none have been an issue for me yet. Otherwise i'd probably run XP 64 and install MS's desktop search addon... The thing i dont like is the complete unstable nature of the PC DESKTOP. Suddenly things are quite messy, and i blaim microsoft.
Vista on a whole, usage wise... seems to work fine for the most part but... i'm not convinced that it is required.
How the hell do all those things amount to "seems to work fine"? If that's fine, I've got a fine 15 year old Tempo to sell you. Not only is it fine, it's a helluva machine! Inline v-4. Four tires and up to 75% of its doors can be opened!
That's what the budgets are for. Engineering dept. doesn't pay for the labs alone. All the money goes into one big pool and gets distributed. Labs already have fees attached to them to cover any supplies beyond what is considered nominal...
Fantastic, that's funny on a couple of levels... It sounds funny phoenetically, and then the true nature of the joke hits you. Well done.
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Quit posting out of your ass.
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Ironically, AT&Ts execs with their complete lack of understanding of the intertubes had not realized that the iPhone would go to the particualr tube that lets it do that, and therefore have completely skipped over the issue.
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Well, you're obviously a clever guy so you don't have a problem ripping DVDs (and watching them in crappy resolution) dumping MP3s on SD cards and worrying about antennas.
But you've got to realize that some of us are fucking tired about thinking about SD cards, busses, interconnects, formats, ratios and standards. I've got a wife and 2 young kids, I don't wanna be dumping MP3s on SD cards. Or heaven forbid try to tell them how to do it. I just want to plug it in and synch it. Sometimes it's just nice to touch a button and for that button to just do a thing with all the magic happening behind the scenes.
iPhone doesn't claim to have two dozen features, it has what it has, and if it stays true to Apple style it will do them really well. I know because I rely heavily on iLife to organize and edit my media. The level of integration is hard to explain to someone who's only seen the crap on Windows. About as hard to explain as why the iPhone is so different. It's not about the glass screen and the sexy interface, it's about the fact that that sexy interface allows you to actually use it, in a way that all the other phones have told you you can do, but made you drag MP3s on SD cards to do it.
Tell me, how often do you dump 400 or however many MP3s you need onto your SD card? How often do you rip and watch DVDs on your phone?
Because if you don't do it, it's as if your phone doesn't either.
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It's not really about the grandma any more. Grandma doesn't want an iPhone, I'm (pretty) sure. It's the younger, or even middle aged people who would really really like to have a phone that is for once easy to use and is useful as well.
You know what happens when a person buys an Apple computer? They start using iPhoto to organize their digital photos. They start using the iMovie and iDVD to make movies. All of a sudden they do all the things they were supposed to be able to do on their PCs. I know this because my sister and about a half a dozen other people who switched are doing it. So all of a sudden now, they see their computers as appliances that are actually useful and easy to use too.
Same will happen with the iPhone.
I'm sure that my shitty Motorlla has an address book function in it somewhere. And it charges via a USB port. But you know what, I can't for the life of me figure out if I can move my contacts onto it. Hell I don't even know where the address book on it is! But I only have 2 college degrees, so maybe I don't meet Motorolla's requirements for a cellphone license.
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You can't judge if a product delivers on its promises before it's been delivered.
You're right, but you know what, David Pogue, and Walt Mossberg did, and they say it does live up to the hype. And since I very much agree with their assesments in general, I'll believe them on this one as well.
The price is not the problem. I'd rather spend 500 bucks and get a phone that's worth 500 bucks, than spend 250 bucks on a phone that drives me nuts with its user interface. Everything has its price. The polished turds that carriers are selling now are vastly exceeding theirs. They're about to see what happens when a company actually implements common sense in the user interface.
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I know I may be late to the party here with 44 coments already posted, but for all you naysayers, here is why we are excited about the iPhone:
The bar is being raised right now for the cellphone industry, and being raised well. This is the industry that has bent us over for so long, with unusable features, overpriced gadgets that don't deliver on what they promised, and ease of use of a manual lawn-mower.
No, iPhone is not the cure for cancer, but it is making the cell manufacturers and networks change the way they do their business. After months of being out on the market, the "Chocolate" cellphone will get capability to have songs transfered from the computer. This is not a win for Apple, but a win for the consumer, who without Apple was at the mercy of PHBs and middle management making decisions about how their cellphones should work.
This happened at least one time before... Remember what happened to Exploder once FireFox came out? Oh, well crap, yeah, here's your IE 7 all of a sudden, sorry you had to endure 7 years of exploder 6, no tabs, millions of infections and popups, but we really thought that's what the consumers wanted.
Like I said, the bar is being raised, and it's good to see Nokia, Motorolla and especially the carriers bend over and take it where the sun don't shine from Apple.
Everyone knows that the 3rd gen will have a ball massager and and a cheek flosser. However, I am really stoked for the 4th gen which will cut the price of the phone to.25 of its original price, as Apple always does. According to the rumor mills, the 4th gen may also come in watermellon red, which as far as I'm concerned is the color of Kings.
Don't worry about it man, They wouldn't understand "change" if it bit them in the ass.
So they take it out on the people who happen to see the big picture.
btw. I see that the new "chocolate" phone (coming out shortly, I guess) from one of the other carriers will now start supporting transfer of music from the computer onto the phone. Where did they get that idea, and how did they ever find engineers that could accomplish such an amazing feat? And only a dozen months after they released their original music playing phone!
As a Windows user he's probably trained on clicking whatever the first default button is, to get to the next screen...
Q: how do you install an app on windows? A: Easy! Doubleclick "setup.exe" (or, since windows folks like their 2 button mouse so much, you can right-click, no, RIGHT click, you have to click the RIGHT mouse button, not the left one, then click "Open") then just click "NEXT" half a dozen times!
You new kids are getting annoying with your complaining, lack of understanding, and self loathing. "watch my karma burn".... Please... We'll burn your karma when you post a good troll or a flame.
We're not fanboys, we just prefer *nix to that piece of shit from Redmond because *nix saves our asses on a daily basis, and allows us to read slash instead of cleaning up viruses all day long...
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Say what you will, but what other company figurehead in recent memory has came out and apologized for other people's willingness to spend their money?
Maybe it was all planned out from the day one though, and if that's the case, I wish Steve would run for the next presidential election. Talk about planing for every contingency...
It's always costed them ~$250 to make.
It doesn't matter what it costed them, it matters what people payed them.
Talkeding with you is more pleasuring than correcteding my 6-year old.
Can it Sync with outlook?
Not only can it sync with outlook but it also formats your new iMac and installs Windows XP SP2.
Apple has realized that MS products are so superb in the areas of efficiency and user friendliness and are focusing on integrating their entire product line-up with whatever products Microsoft has to offer.
As far as other apps it can run, it can crash regularly on MS Word, Excel, and garble up its slideshows so they look like powerpoint, so Microsoft noobs can feel right at home with it.
Now I have something to want (tm) for christmas.
..A Zune?
Like what?
Don't be an idiot. Frogs wouldn't know a revolution if it bit them in the ass.
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You seem to forget that constant punishment is just a part of a regular Windows experience. This numbs his sense of irritation, and the subject can literally spend 2 hours in front of a loading bar and feel completely neutral about it.
No offense man, but are you retarded?
Here is the gist of your review:
I'm not sure i'm a fan of the new memory management.
Vista loves to eat up all of the memory, and then when my apps need it, it slowly gives it to the app however it still triggers swapping as it does so.
And it is frustrating and anoying.. not to mention SLOW.
The new file explorer hides too much on its tree menu when you open a file explorer. Its hard to explain but it takes a few clicks to get to a drive, or to look through your "favorites".
I'm not having too much difficulty with Vista.
I have been feeling that file operations were slow...
I dont like the DRM features, but none have been an issue for me yet.
Otherwise i'd probably run XP 64 and install MS's desktop search addon...
The thing i dont like is the complete unstable nature of the PC DESKTOP. Suddenly things are quite messy, and i blaim microsoft.
Vista on a whole, usage wise... seems to work fine for the most part but... i'm not convinced that it is required.
How the hell do all those things amount to "seems to work fine"? If that's fine, I've got a fine 15 year old Tempo to sell you. Not only is it fine, it's a helluva machine! Inline v-4. Four tires and up to 75% of its doors can be opened!
Who the hell gave him mod points? Steve Ballmer?
That's what the budgets are for. Engineering dept. doesn't pay for the labs alone.
All the money goes into one big pool and gets distributed.
Labs already have fees attached to them to cover any supplies beyond what is considered nominal...
No, seriously, is there really anyone even using vista?
What's next, firmware upgrades for Ngage?
Fantastic, that's funny on a couple of levels... It sounds funny phoenetically, and then the true nature of the joke hits you.
Well done.
Quit posting out of your ass.
Ironically, AT&Ts execs with their complete lack of understanding of the intertubes had not realized that the iPhone would go to the particualr tube that lets it do that, and therefore have completely skipped over the issue.
Well, you're obviously a clever guy so you don't have a problem ripping DVDs (and watching them in crappy resolution) dumping MP3s on SD cards and worrying about antennas.
But you've got to realize that some of us are fucking tired about thinking about SD cards, busses, interconnects, formats, ratios and standards.
I've got a wife and 2 young kids, I don't wanna be dumping MP3s on SD cards. Or heaven forbid try to tell them how to do it. I just want to plug it in and synch it.
Sometimes it's just nice to touch a button and for that button to just do a thing with all the magic happening behind the scenes.
iPhone doesn't claim to have two dozen features, it has what it has, and if it stays true to Apple style it will do them really well.
I know because I rely heavily on iLife to organize and edit my media. The level of integration is hard to explain to someone who's only seen the crap on Windows. About as hard to explain as why the iPhone is so different. It's not about the glass screen and the sexy interface, it's about the fact that that sexy interface allows you to actually use it, in a way that all the other phones have told you you can do, but made you drag MP3s on SD cards to do it.
Tell me, how often do you dump 400 or however many MP3s you need onto your SD card?
How often do you rip and watch DVDs on your phone?
Because if you don't do it, it's as if your phone doesn't either.
It's not really about the grandma any more. Grandma doesn't want an iPhone, I'm (pretty) sure. It's the younger, or even middle aged people who would really really like to have a phone that is for once easy to use and is useful as well.
You know what happens when a person buys an Apple computer? They start using iPhoto to organize their digital photos. They start using the iMovie and iDVD to make movies. All of a sudden they do all the things they were supposed to be able to do on their PCs. I know this because my sister and about a half a dozen other people who switched are doing it.
So all of a sudden now, they see their computers as appliances that are actually useful and easy to use too.
Same will happen with the iPhone.
I'm sure that my shitty Motorlla has an address book function in it somewhere. And it charges via a USB port. But you know what, I can't for the life of me figure out if I can move my contacts onto it. Hell I don't even know where the address book on it is! But I only have 2 college degrees, so maybe I don't meet Motorolla's requirements for a cellphone license.
You can't judge if a product delivers on its promises before it's been delivered.
You're right, but you know what, David Pogue, and Walt Mossberg did, and they say it does live up to the hype. And since I very much agree with their assesments in general, I'll believe them on this one as well.
The price is not the problem. I'd rather spend 500 bucks and get a phone that's worth 500 bucks, than spend 250 bucks on a phone that drives me nuts with its user interface.
Everything has its price. The polished turds that carriers are selling now are vastly exceeding theirs. They're about to see what happens when a company actually implements common sense in the user interface.
I know I may be late to the party here with 44 coments already posted, but for all you naysayers, here is why we are excited about the iPhone:
The bar is being raised right now for the cellphone industry, and being raised well.
This is the industry that has bent us over for so long, with unusable features, overpriced gadgets that don't deliver on what they promised, and ease of use of a manual lawn-mower.
No, iPhone is not the cure for cancer, but it is making the cell manufacturers and networks change the way they do their business.
After months of being out on the market, the "Chocolate" cellphone will get capability to have songs transfered from the computer. This is not a win for Apple, but a win for the consumer, who without Apple was at the mercy of PHBs and middle management making decisions about how their cellphones should work.
This happened at least one time before... Remember what happened to Exploder once FireFox came out? Oh, well crap, yeah, here's your IE 7 all of a sudden, sorry you had to endure 7 years of exploder 6, no tabs, millions of infections and popups, but we really thought that's what the consumers wanted.
Like I said, the bar is being raised, and it's good to see Nokia, Motorolla and especially the carriers bend over and take it where the sun don't shine from Apple.
Me too!
You've got to pay attention to the wink at the end.
Is because they have such small user base, naturally. ;)
The Newsweek reviewer is having trouble typing.
Maybe it's because he's using his thumbs? (As he says in his review.)
Geez, talk about missing the point.
Everyone knows that the 3rd gen will have a ball massager and and a cheek flosser. However, I am really stoked for the 4th gen which will cut the price of the phone to .25 of its original price, as Apple always does.
According to the rumor mills, the 4th gen may also come in watermellon red, which as far as I'm concerned is the color of Kings.
Don't worry about it man,
They wouldn't understand "change" if it bit them in the ass.
So they take it out on the people who happen to see the big picture.
btw. I see that the new "chocolate" phone (coming out shortly, I guess) from one of the other carriers will now start supporting transfer of music from the computer onto the phone. Where did they get that idea, and how did they ever find engineers that could accomplish such an amazing feat? And only a dozen months after they released their original music playing phone!
As a Windows user he's probably trained on clicking whatever the first default button is, to get to the next screen...
Q: how do you install an app on windows?
A: Easy! Doubleclick "setup.exe" (or, since windows folks like their 2 button mouse so much, you can right-click, no, RIGHT click, you have to click the RIGHT mouse button, not the left one, then click "Open") then just click "NEXT" half a dozen times!
To recycle an old joke, it depends how you define "runs".
You new kids are getting annoying with your complaining, lack of understanding, and self loathing. .... Please...
"watch my karma burn"
We'll burn your karma when you post a good troll or a flame.
We're not fanboys, we just prefer *nix to that piece of shit from Redmond because *nix saves our asses on a daily basis, and allows us to read slash instead of cleaning up viruses all day long...