Apple has released new stuff, so because Slashdot and the like dub me an Apple fanboi it’s my civic responsibility to discuss them… from my iTelephone. We still don’t have home internet, you see :(.
Hardware
My current kit is my venerable first generation MacBook Pro, a ThinkPad X40, a homebrew E8400 desktop, a 16GiB iPhone 3G, my pocket-rocket Nikon D60 with a couple of DX lenses, and a Stonehenge of external hard drives. Oh yeah and a ridiculously amazing Unicomp bucking spring keyboard!
Thursday 02nd September 2010
Sunday 08th August 2010
Friday 30th July 2010
Steve Ballmer has commented on the success of the iPad, calling it an "interesting product", only to then defend his company’s own record by stating they’d been "selling Windows on tablet computers for years".
He also said the iPhone had “no chance” of gaining significant market share in 2007. He bought and ruined Danger (should have stuck with NetBSD). He trumpeted the Courier as a tangible competitor even though it never got past the concept video stage. He abandoned the Kin project almost as soon as the phones went to market. The Zune had a "squirt" feature and came in brown!
Forgive me if I don’t take his words very seriously, especially in the mobile space.
Photo of Steve Ballmer by Martin Olsson on Wikimedia Commons.
Wednesday 28th July 2010
With their launch of new iMacs and Mac Pros yesterday, Apple are perhaps copping the most flack for discontinuing the 24 and 30 inch Cinema Displays. Presented for your consideration are my thoughts, interspersed with plenty of pointless nostalgia. Is that how you spell "interspersed"? Doesn’t look right.
Sunday 25th July 2010
I completely missed this story, but Google has decided to stop selling the Nexus One. For all my talk of the iPhone and how my 3G model still does everything I want it to, I’m sad to see Google pull out of the race as a direct competitor.
Thursday 22nd July 2010
Presumably they asked Apple but it was rejected from the App Store. Thank you thank you, I’ll be here all week! From SBS News:
Raytheon, which makes the Patriot missile defense system, is developing software which could enable a soldier to find enemies in his or her surrounding terrain using a mobile phone running Google’s Android operating system.
Friday 16th July 2010
I wasn’t going to talk about this, but I’ve been asked enough about it on The Twitters that I feel obligated to now. Well okay and I’ve been thinking about this whole mess too, and I know the universe was anxiously awaiting my analysis. Hey you in the third row, stop laughing!
Tuesday 13th July 2010
Grabbing a quick coffee at our local deli this morning I happened upon an article in the Sydney Morning Herald by David Flynn talking about the utopian idea of all day battery power. Where do I sign up? :)
Saturday 26th June 2010
While I’m ragging on Android and on my mobile soapbox thingy, why is it the media consistently gives the platform a free ride but criticises everything Apple does?
Monday 07th June 2010
Looking forward to seeing what Apple delivers at WWDC this year. Some quicky thoughts thingys:
