Going to the Social? Not anymore.
News abounds. There will be better coverage in an hour or two. For now:
- New red iPod Shuffle
- New iPod Nanos with iPhone-like video
- New iPod Classics with iPhone-like video — up to 160GB
- New iPod Touch — a phoneless iPhone with WiFi, iTunes by WiFi and Starbucks music previewing (hold your nose for that last bit of flatulent decay from the Zune)
- New iPhone price, 8GB version only going forward for $399
And remember that Leopard is still out there this year…
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Robert Kerr says:
Much better pricing. I pity the people who bought their iPhones at $599. Ouch!
September 5, 2007 — 1:51 pm
Kris Berg says:
Thank you for this! My daughter just got a new laptop which started the chain reaction. New laptop doesn’t have firewire, old iPod only connects with firewire, etc. I knew they were announcing their newer generation versions today. Race you to the Apple Store!
September 5, 2007 — 1:54 pm
Chuchundra says:
Apple brings out the iPhone at $599 and two months later drops the price by a third. I’ll bet there’s not even all that much complaint from the Apple faithful.
Some days I think that Jobs could crap in a box and the Apple fans would still line up around the corner to buy it.
September 5, 2007 — 5:19 pm
BR says:
Chuchundra, I bought my Godson (1 yr old) an ipoop shirt. I am pretty sure your crap in a box theory is dead on.
I heard/saw the best review of the iphone today that totally sold me off of it- the text message keyboard is horrible. Shep Smith/fox news- editor of pc mag agreed. This does not make for a great re phone. I hope the next generation of the ipoop in a box corrects this fundimental flaw. Not to mention, the phone actually FROZE on live television with a polka music podcast playing outloud. Someone had to take it away.
junk in a box?
September 5, 2007 — 7:55 pm
Carl says:
Greg did you at some point get rejected by Microsoft when you applied for a job there? Just curious where all this anti-MS venom comes from…
September 6, 2007 — 11:05 am
Greg Swann says:
> Just curious where all this anti-MS venom comes from…
I live in the Mac world, have since 1985, a world where things just work. Microsoft crap doesn’t work. You can’t sit down at a Windows machine without having to deal with one or more meta-problems before you can get to the task you came to do.
As an example, on an extended keyboard, why doesn’t the numeric keypad default to numbers? Never has, never will, just boneheaded — one suspects deliberately boneheaded — engineering. Recall that those cursor keys are left over from DOS.
When you have the Caps Lock key down and you type shift-A out of habit, what do you expect? What do you get instead?
Why do you have to refresh a folder view to see the file you just saved into that folder?
When you select a filename, the whole string is highlighted. If you hit the left arrow key, you expect to find the cursor to the left of the first character, the default behavior for a selected string. Instead, the cursor will be flashing to the left of the last character.
Please don’t defend these instances to me. I could list hundreds of idiocies in Windows alone. It’s worthwhile to note that MS-Office is the least Mac-like mainstream Macintosh software on the market. We don’t own it and we never will.
No one at Microsoft thinks, and this is why the company produces kludgey products that are three-years obsolete on the day they are released. Vista users are nauseated now, but wait until Leopard is released.
The way I see it, the religious fanaticism is all the other way: Microsoft produces crap and its users seem to worship crap. They’re welcome to it. As soon as I can flush Bill Gates from my life, he will be gone forever.
September 6, 2007 — 11:27 am
Greg Swann says:
PS: I just checked. My Mac has been running continuously, without a reboot, for 9 days, 18 hours. I push it much harder than I could ever push a Windows machine — I routinely have QuarkXpress, PhotoShop and Illustrator running side-by-side, along with all my support apps and utilities; I routinely work on multi-gigabyte files — but it never crashes. I reboot when there’s a software upgrade, otherwise never. You can’t even see the world I work in through Windows.
September 6, 2007 — 11:42 am
Carl says:
Wow, 9 days… a new record. I have a Windows Media Center box that’s been up for nearly 3 months because that’s the last time I updated the software on it.
I couldn’t tell you the last application crash I had on Windows and I support an ad/PR company here in Scottsdale that uses all the same apps you use, on Windows, and they don’t have problems either. You should try using AutoCAD sometime…but then you’d have to get a PC.
Man, I love pushing fanatics’ buttons. Like no one in the world could *ever* use a PC like a Mac can be used. Please, even Linux has a bigger market share now that Apple. Maybe that Leopard release will give Apple the boost to finally jump over the number of Windows 2000 PCs still being used. LOL…
September 6, 2007 — 12:23 pm
Greg Swann says:
> Like no one in the world could *ever* use a PC like a Mac can be used.
That is to say, you worship the thousands of software defects Microsoft has encysted you with. Enjoy them.
September 6, 2007 — 12:27 pm
Greg Swann says:
> I have a Windows Media Center box that’s been up for nearly 3 months
I just looked up Windows Media Center. You win: Windows is a much better joke.
September 6, 2007 — 12:36 pm
Robert Kerr says:
re: iPHone
Apple is offering a $100 store credit to those who paid full price. Good for Apple!
re: Mac up for 9 continuous days.
You’re joking, right? That’s supposed to be commendable uptime? Greg, my XP Pro box only reboots when MS deems an update requires one. That’s about once every 2-3 mos.
I have a 2003 box that’s been up for close to 2 years. The last reboot was either the upgarde to R2 or the RAID reconfiguration.
September 6, 2007 — 3:22 pm
Greg Swann says:
You’re a fun guy, Robert. How does your refrigerator run? I do work I would never do on a Windows machine because they crash all the time. Our Macs never crash. We reboot to upgrade and when the power fails.
The issue is productivity. Every time you type “aNNE aDDISON” and have to go back and fix it, Windows has cost you money. Every time you have to reload an inexplicably missing driver, Windows has cost you money. Every time you have to reboot a machine because it has lost its network connection, Windows has cost you money. When that fails and you have to reboot the whole network, Windows has cost you money. The unnecessary after-market cost of Windows machines is obscene, a tax of 5% or more on every user. I work with both operating systems. I know Windows sucks — and I know why it sucks in immense detail, alas. When something comes along that increases my productivity over what I can achieve on the Macintosh, I’ll replace it in a heartbeat without a backward glance. In the mean time, I work every single day to get the Windows machines out of our office forever.
September 6, 2007 — 4:01 pm
Robert Kerr says:
I agree that Mac OS is superior, but if Windows is crashing that frequently, or losing its network connection, then maybe you need someone who knows what they’re doing to set up that Windows box for you?
Is this Windows XP?
September 6, 2007 — 4:09 pm
Greg Swann says:
> maybe you need someone who knows what they’re doing to set up that Windows box for you
I have a better idea:
September 6, 2007 — 4:31 pm
Carl says:
..When that fails and you have to reboot the whole network
Are you kidding me? I have to reboot all of my Cisco switches because a PC fails? Greg, save your hyperbole for your real estate clients please. And guess what? In Word, if you start typing aNNE aDDISON it corrects it **automatically** to Anne Addison. Or even better, you can turn that feature off! Wow, amazing, hold me back.
Maybe you should use something besides notepad on your PCs. Or just admit that really have no idea what you’re talking about. Maybe you should check this out:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136949-pg,1/article.html
September 7, 2007 — 4:02 pm
Greg Swann says:
Shoe pinch?
Let me see if I have this right.
The behavior of the caps-lock key in Windows is and always has been defective. Not a bug, but an intentional error introduced by stone literal software engineers who, if they are not actually user-hostile, have never invested even a single second in thinking about how to create a satisfying user experience.
So: With the caps-lock key down, I type a name. Except, out of habit, I hold down the shift key for the initials.
On my Macintosh, I would get:
ANNE ADDISON
which is what I would expect.
In Windows or in virtually any Windows application, I would get:
aNNE aDDISON
an obvious error, which I will have to correct manually.
In response to this, you proudly boast:
> In Word, if you start typing aNNE aDDISON it corrects it **automatically** to Anne Addison.
That is, the Word programmers are smart enough to know that the default caps-lock behavior is and has been wrong in Windows for decades, but they lack either the moral fortitude or the political clout to get this fixed.
Instead, they will attempt to paper over a fundamental defect in the operating system — one of thousands — “fixing” my text by getting it wrong!
You worship an operating system that taxes your productivity in thousands of bizarre ways, all of them a reflection, fundamentally, of thoughtlessness, the failure to have thought. I can understand being stuck with a bad decision. I can understand reflexively defending that bad decision. I don’t understand fanboys, and I really don’t understand this religious devotion to crap software. The only issue is productivity. I don’t understand why you would sacrifice yours, nor, especially, why that sacrifice would become such a matter of religious frenzy to you.
Windows sucks. This is a secret to no one. Get used to it.
September 7, 2007 — 5:50 pm
Will Farnsworth says:
Apple comes up short once again with the iPod touch. I would actually consider purchasing one if they hadn’t stripped out the email client and maps feature. I guess they didn’t want to anger their new BFF (AT&T) by offering a product that only needed a microphone and 3rd party software support (Skype) to make it into a true smart device.
September 8, 2007 — 6:32 am