• Apple finally gets sued over iBrick. I rant over a miserable analysis of Apple bricking the iPhone.
• People begin to defend Apple, I go on a rant about that targeting a MacNN/Wired article.
• Steve Jobs quote slammed.
• Spam being fought in France while the US does nothing. We’re number 16 in broadband but number one in SPAM.
• Cluster computing initiative, cloud computing announced.
• Seagate launches a hybrid drive.
• Vista is getting better?
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Vista has no lips.
#3, pedro don’t care
The hybrid drive is huge news to my mind.
I’m an Apple fan boy from way back but recently am thinking that Apple is coming apart due to it’s own success. I can’t imagine people believing Apple actually cares about their customers when they repeatedly screw them over with the iPhone pricing and bricking. Sounds like they sought advice from George Bush about management.
Sadly they’ve lost their focus on the OS X which is finally making inroads into a large number of corporations I see. It’s the classic mistake of neglecting their core business while screwing up in a new business model.
Hey Pedro, I feel lipstick on a pig jokes coming.
I’m amused at any stories that try to paint Apple as only interested in their customers’ wellbeing. They have ALWAYS ripped their customers new backholes in order to pull out more cash, as regularly as possible, and with as high a profit margin as they can get. The iTunes infrastructure is a perfect example of ridiculous profit potential.
Not to mention using their customers to do their own R&D (i.e. NeXT, which was pretty much Jobs’s R&D on the new Apple operating system until he could jump back into the company.) Not that I’m completely knocking the strategy, it’s not like nearly every company in the tech sector doesn’t put out BetaAlphaGamma products and insist we pay for them.
Now with the iPhoney stuff, we see that Apple has finally realized it doesn’t really care about its customers, it only cares about pulling in their cash. Hmmm sounds like AT&T actually.
I’ve always been supremely suspicious of any “evangelism”, especially when it comes from a company or government. Well, ok, from anyone. And Apple was pretty much built on the concept and uses it as often as possible. Which is largely why I don’t own one apple product and likely never will.
Apple is like any niche-market enterprise hitting the big-time…
You can’t suck-up to the fanboiz anymore, you have to be more concerned with catering to the mass market.
Fanboiz lament that iPod dropped Firewire in favor of USB, when Windows iPods started outnumbering Mac iPods.
Harley Davidson started forcing their dealers to build new, flashy showrooms visible from highways, to cater to all the wanna-be idgits who started filling waiting-lists for Harleys – after the “custom-built chopper” TV-shows became popular.
Everybody’s pissing & moaning about the iPhone being locked onto AT&T’s network – but nobody seems to give a rat’s ass that any of the “iPhone killers” are also locked into a single network… i.e. LG’s Voyager being a Verizon “exclusive”.
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=13941
Last sentence in the linked story:
Both new phones are Verizon exclusives. Prices have not been announced.
John great idea lets shoot spammers. I all for that
TECH5: NOW, MORE ANNOYING THAN EVER!
1 – BUBBLING NOISE AND LOUD, OBNOXIOUS-ANNOUNCER LEAD-IN
2 – NEW AND UNNECESSARY EXTERNAL LINK
3 – NEW AND UNNECESSARY POPUP
Whiners – at least the anti-Apple-fanboys – really should look around at sound hacking. Your rationales for whining are parallel to cheapskates who rationalize any and all forms of piracy because it sticks it to the RIAA.
There are differences. There are standards. And the hackers who are going to make money from the iPhone are those who line their products up with the BSD standards.
That is – after all – whence forthcometh OS X and the portable version of same in the iPhone and Touch iPods.
I realize that means nothing to the religion – cult? – of Mac-hating. But, meanwhile, Jobs and company keep on making sales and profits by ignoring – “the few, the proud, the boring!” The same is true of hackers whose modded iPhones don’t brick.
#10, you could check Tech5 from here:
http://cagematch.dvorak.org
Look on the left under the Tech section for Tech5. This Tech5 was posted yesterday at:
http://cagematch.dvorak.org/index.php?topic=2542.0
Bypass the announcer if you like, that’s fairly simple with a click ‘n’ drag. I kinda like the varying intro sound effects, but that’s just me.
#10 – Oh be quiet.
The only thing wrong with Tech 5 is that it’s not “The most important 5 minutes of your day”
It’s more like “The most important 5 minutes in all of history.”
#10 – Your comment was MUCH more annoying than anything I’ve heard on Tech5.
Don’t be an idiot. Just click on the arrow at the bottom of this post to hear it without going to the site.
Fact is… Apple is starting to fuck up.
Just when they’ve started converting some of the most enthusiastic M$-ass-kissers, (take a look at what a computer columnist who used to worship any piece of shit to come out of Redmond and dump on Macs more than pedro has to say now…A few days with a 24″ iMac, and he’s buying one) now they’ve diverted resources away from beta testing any software – it’s all starting to show the signs of coming apart.
It looks like they’ve taken a leaf outta the M$ playbook and decided that rushing incomplete and buggy code out the door is sound policy.
The recent bugs in 10.4.10, QuickTime audio and iTunes 7.x, not to mention some inexcusible blunders w/ iWeb & iMovie, suggest to me that unless something is done soon, they’re gonna destroy the goodwill of longtime Mac users like me. And the bitch of it is, they have the money to hire enough people – or to give the people they have the time – to squash 95%+ of these things before they ever touch an end-user’s machine, so WHY AREN’T THEY DOING IT??
I see a bad moon risin’…
Funny that John should mention TRS-80. I had one, and it did have expansion of a sort. An edge connector on the back let you hook it up to an expansion box that let one add floppy drives and extra ram. But it was ridiculously over priced. So few hobbiest or non-business users, got it. Also, the stock TRS-80 came with only 4K memory. But for an extra $200, they remove (and keep) those 8 4K rams and replace them with 8 16K rams. Then they probably recycled the 4K rams into another TRS-80.
Radio Shack also had this weird Apple-like policy. When they offered a free mod. to improve the data cassette input signal, I accept it. But after they install the little amp curcuit, they demanded payment for parts and labor, because they claimed I had opened the case and added foreign ram chips. Fortunately I had the receipts showing that an authorized RS dealer had installed all the ram. They had based their “tampering” claim on the color of the glue covering the case screws. And apparently they used a different color, in different regions of the US. I had moved back east, right after getting the ram installed. And Radio Shack hadn’t allowed for this. So the east coast service center saw a glue color that they didn’t use, and decide that was grounds for a warrantee violation. And all work done would then be chargeable. But I proved they were wrong. And got the mod. for free anyway. As insignificant as the damn thing was.
BTW, I had opened the case, to look around inside. But I repainted the screws with the same color paint-glue that they used. After all that trouble, I really opened her up. And rewired all the loose lines thru the one Rom chip ribbon cable (as it should have been). RS never offered any more freebie mods. And soon after they came out with their “color computer” model. If RS wasn’t so greedy, they could have made the whole TRS-80 MK1 upgradeable, retaining just the Z-80 processor, keyboard, Level II Rom, and whatever Ram you had. But no, it was “throw that old Model 1 away, and get the Model 2 because it now does color graphics”. I got an Apple II instead, which was very upgradeable.