New Apple Lust Objects

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (5436 of them)

There's a difference between simplification by removing features and abstraction of features in the name of simplicity.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

lol @ "otomatic"

― m@p (plosive), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

OS X != a device. If we are talking about the computers themselves, Apple are always removing bits that they deem to be legacy (e.g. floppy drive).

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 12:34 (seventeen years ago) link

e.g. MODEM which is driving the lovely Emma B around the bend right now since broadband provisioning in most temporal earthly dimensions is not instantaneous upon receiving keys to new flat!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link

where do you live, hillmarton?

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i live on what you call earth

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link

this will sound smug but fuck it: u can get broadband hizooked up so it's running when u move in.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

week and a half to activate the line (??) + 48 hours until broadband company can "see" it + one week for them process order and activate ADSL at MINIMUM

so, you see, when you sign your lease 1 week before moving in, u cannot get broadband hizzucked, so get fizznucked, enruk, k?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link

granted, expecting a built-in modem would have been considered ridiculous even as late as 1998 but it's easy to get used to things

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

usb modem then sell it on ebay

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link

when you sign your lease 1 week before moving in

ah seen

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 13:06 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, it makes no sense to build something into a computer that the average user will use for a maximum total of like, two or three months; but simiarly, it makes no sense to buy a separate add-on that you will use for a maximum total of like, two or three months, so alang your suggestion is the only sensible one. although i have never sold anything on eBay and have no plans to.

from way upthread:

the other metadata you mention is not exclusive to itunes. any mp3 player can access it. and you can make smart folders that can access that stuff, too (genre, etc). no need for itunes.

Well, aye, but I didn't think you were talking about other MP3 players -- you were suggesting using the Finder to do it, which can't access any of this.

actually it can - smart folders can access even more metadata than iTunes can.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

So I guess I know what we're all doing 9 am PST...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Listening to the start of Danny Baker on Radio London?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Or the end, rather. I keep forgetting where the Pacific Ocean is.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

actually it can - smart folders can access even more metadata than iTunes can.
They can't get to useful stuff like play count or skip count though.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish they'd stream the keynotes in real time though. It's shit watching macosrumors or whoever trickle in with updates.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

having thought it unllikely for ages i'm suddenly persuaded to go on the new UI look (to go with the res-independence) - which might tie in with some new hardware "look" too.

this change of mind brought to you by daringfireball

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

The Register has their usual editorializing on how the Apple Phone idea is stupid because phone companies won't play ball:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/23/iphone_will_fail/

I suppose this is just like how the record companies and television networks and movie studios wouldn't play ball either. Poor Apple.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

ok i'm buzzing on an overdose of lemsip i just took. an ipod with a camera, mic and speaker in it, a cut down iChat AV frontend on board and wifi to yr mac so you can video chat away from your base mac.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I bet Apple would make a really good Lemsip.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

iSip

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I think they're actually moving away from the i prefix on everything. The iMac is the only one of their computers that has it since the demised of the iBook; they can't call a phone the iPhone cause it's someone else's trademark; and well, it's just getting a bit old.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

The only convincing argument I've heard against the phone is that they don't own any patents, and all the big phone companies do. There are around 25 you need to make a phone, and they all cross-licence to one another. But to apple? hm. Costly, too.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Lem Sip Pro

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish there was a video stream, so we could see the fanboys go crazy over "15 new templates in Keynote!"

I think I used http://www.macrumorslive.com/ last time for live updates.

― schwantz (schwantz), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

schwantz, that post is some kind of weird masterpiece of inverted self-loathing voyeurism.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish there was a video stream so we could watch the uncomfortable silences when nothing cool comes out/the dull Microsoft woman is droning on.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I know. I buy the shit, but I don't *buy into* it. maaaan.

― schwantz (schwantz), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

8:59 am Attendees are being let into the hall

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

okay dudes, keep me posted. i want minute-by-minute, blow-by-blow shit goin' down.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

That macrumorslive.com site will satisfy your needs.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

1) i'm at work, so it'll look too obvious
2) it won't be funny. this thread will

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

True.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Shit, they've announced the phone

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

ATTENDEES STILL TAKING THEIR SEATS!

― schwantz (schwantz), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I fear this thread may be an unreliable narrator.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

**9:08 orcs cheer **

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Jobs takes the stage in an ice-white plastic suit, with a giant touch-wheel-emblazoned phallus, and invite fanboys up to the stage to stroke him!

― schwantz (schwantz), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

truth is less interesting than fiction.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

YOU got a new car, YOU got a new car, YOU and YOU! - NEW CARS FOR EVERYONE!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

"Sheryl Crow playing in background"

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

9:08 am please turn off all cell phones and other devices
BECAUSE YOU WON'T BE NEEDING THEM ANYMORE

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

"Sheryl Crow playing in background"

END TIMES

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Jobs takes the stage in an ice-white plastic suit

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/05.27.99/gifs/talkingheads3-9921.jpg

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

9:12 am Now Bonnie Raitt is playing - "let's give them something to talk about"

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

9:10 am people still seating, ushers wearing turquoise shirts
DAVID ICKE WAS THE ONLY ONE TO GET THE RUMOURS RIGHT

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

9:14 am new apple range of cold and flu products announced.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I use FileMaker on a PC so... ner @ Mac people! Er! Hello!

*orcs devour pc user*

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

9:12 am James Brown - "I Feel Good" playing now
TOO SOON TOO SOON

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Skipping 5336 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

This thread has been locked by an administrator

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.