512mb storage and (possibly) up to 1gb on an SD card? I can see it competing with the iPod Shuffle. This phone is useful to me because I usually have a cell phone, while my iPod is mainly for my drive into work and while at work. To have a 5 hours worth of music with me at all times would really make the time I spend waiting in line, at appointments, etc, move faster. You can't always carry an iPod, even a Shuffle, but you can usually have your phone with you.
Now add in game-playing and decent PDA functionality (PalmOS, ideally), and this is the all-in-one gadget to rule the world.
More storage would be nice, as would more megapixels, but I'm definitely planning on getting one to replace my V60 and Palm Pilot and use as a second iPod.
is the dismantling of CBS's attempt to flaunt the(obiviously) fake National Guard memos as evidence of Bush's slacking off in the Texas Air National Guard. Whether you agree if Dubya did such or not, the way the various conservative blogs built off each other in chasing down that fraud and exposing the sloppy journalism of CBS is a model for future "open-source journalism" efforts.
So *that's* what happened to ELO and Olivia Newton-John.
Gene Kelly deserved better than to be in that crapfest.
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I'd say the lack of a spreadsheet app is bone thrown to Microsoft to placate them that iWork is not an enterprise office suite. And the $500 iMac is a great enterprise-level machine, meaning more sales of Microsoft Office X to those customers who want as smooth of a transition from Wintel to Macs.
No shi'ite. This little thing, combined with Airport Express and/or and El Gato box, will make one hell of a media server. Perfect for hooking up to a plasma TV/Monitor.
And I can get the Mrs. a FlashPod to mollify her so I can get what I want. *vbg*
Okay, a point by point rebuttal: no way apple will lower prices, as they have highest margins in the PC world
That's not the concern it used to be. They have one of the hottest gadgets in recent memory with the iPod, and they make as much on that as they do with some of their computer line. They can afford to take a hit in profit to build up user base. It's called a "loss leader".
a clone mac was tried last year and it failed.
If by "last year" you mean "1994", then you're correct. And they failed for a whole host of reasons, the least of which is that Apple killed OS licensing in 1996.
Besides,with bittorrent taking up 35% of net use,apple software would be canabalized and free
You've never installed OS X, I take it. There is no serial number registration, there is no unique identifier for the disc. You can use the same disc to install OS X on any number of computers and they'll all work just fine. Illegally, but fine.:-) Apple doesn't think everyone in the world is a thief and lock you into DRM hell (okay, the iTMS is the exception. Compare their DRM to WindowsMCE, though). Look at the DRM that's packed with an iPod: a brief note exhorting you not to steal.
Thanks for one of the most entertaining tech stories I've read in a long, long time. With the recent successes of Apple, it was great to be reminded just how charlie-foxtrotted things were there in the early 90's.
Sorry, Washington Post, but buying Slate does NOT mean you get the "New Media", anymore than Pathfinder meant that Time-Warner got it.
The citizen-journalists of the blogsphere are where journalism is heading. There's a million fact-checkers out there, and the Old Media better wake up to it, or be cast aside.
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it's all fun and games until Hiro Protaganist shows up and carves a hole in the hull with his chain gun on steroids.
"I think I'll go for a walk." "I feel happy, I feel happy, I feel...(THUD!)"
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And duplicate posts.
/.'s ability to predict the next hot consumer toy is nothing I'd bet the farm on... ;-)
512mb storage and (possibly) up to 1gb on an SD card? I can see it competing with the iPod Shuffle.
This phone is useful to me because I usually have a cell phone, while my iPod is mainly for my drive into work and while at work. To have a 5 hours worth of music with me at all times would really make the time I spend waiting in line, at appointments, etc, move faster. You can't always carry an iPod, even a Shuffle, but you can usually have your phone with you.
More storage would be nice, as would more megapixels, but I'm definitely planning on getting one to replace my V60 and Palm Pilot and use as a second iPod.
My God, if every here did that, it would mean the end of /.!
I, myself, watch the watchmen.
Or is there some kind of double-negative rule kicks in here, and they're real, but I am not?
In France, they call it the Mac Royale.
Yes, it is painful, from all accounts. But those same accounts mention that it does NOT void your warranty.
It can't be any worse than putting RAM into the original iMac.Gene Kelly deserved better than to be in that crapfest.
I'd say the lack of a spreadsheet app is bone thrown to Microsoft to placate them that iWork is not an enterprise office suite. And the $500 iMac is a great enterprise-level machine, meaning more sales of Microsoft Office X to those customers who want as smooth of a transition from Wintel to Macs.
By buying 12 of each, of course! :-)
And I can get the Mrs. a FlashPod to mollify her so I can get what I want. *vbg*
Best. SteveNote. Ever!Okay, for the version that ships with the machine, this is correct. What I said applies to the retail box versions of both OS X and it's predecessors.
A three hour tour.
Hmmn.
no way apple will lower prices, as they have highest margins in the PC world
That's not the concern it used to be. They have one of the hottest gadgets in recent memory with the iPod, and they make as much on that as they do with some of their computer line. They can afford to take a hit in profit to build up user base. It's called a "loss leader".
a clone mac was tried last year and it failed.If by "last year" you mean "1994", then you're correct. And they failed for a whole host of reasons, the least of which is that Apple killed OS licensing in 1996.
Besides,with bittorrent taking up 35% of net use,apple software would be canabalized and freeYou've never installed OS X, I take it. There is no serial number registration, there is no unique identifier for the disc. You can use the same disc to install OS X on any number of computers and they'll all work just fine. Illegally, but fine. :-) Apple doesn't think everyone in the world is a thief and lock you into DRM hell (okay, the iTMS is the exception. Compare their DRM to WindowsMCE, though). Look at the DRM that's packed with an iPod: a brief note exhorting you not to steal.
Thanks for one of the most entertaining tech stories I've read in a long, long time. With the recent successes of Apple, it was great to be reminded just how charlie-foxtrotted things were there in the early 90's.
Sorry, Washington Post, but buying Slate does NOT mean you get the "New Media", anymore than Pathfinder meant that Time-Warner got it. The citizen-journalists of the blogsphere are where journalism is heading. There's a million fact-checkers out there, and the Old Media better wake up to it, or be cast aside.
It's not that big of a secret.
Because reading SD cards means nothing to me and my CF-card-using D70, mayhaps?
Why yes, these people do.