New Apple Lust Objects

tbh buying apple is stock is probably not a bad idea, in general, but maybe someday a voice will wake me up and tell me a stock to buy that is not 200 bucks a pop

i like the prospect of apple and google long term as companies - i dont really know anything abt buying stock tho

other than that its a bad idea

so what should we do

buy the tablet, watch a movie

buy a real apple, eat it

if they had a tablet w/ACTUAL FUNCTIONAL handwriting recognition and some kinda killer note-taking app right out of the box, then i would be v v interested

― deej--nuts, butthurt, and yelly (gbx), Thursday, 24 December 2009 16:14 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes but QED u r a fkn doctor innit

buy a real apple, eat it

― max, Thursday, December 24, 2009 12:56 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

should i buy them before the announcement?

"You will be very surprised how you interact with the new tablet"

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/12/apple-exec-jobs-happy-with-unannounced-apple-tablet.ars

u eat it

stock pretty much always drops after announcements. dropped after the iphone iirc

bought apple stock at $48 /braggin

all this new set of tablet stuff boils down to

i) that one guy on the NYT blog has a quote, and a couple of asshat financial services analysts have piled on
ii) they don't know what else it could be and we have to write about something

i.e. i will believe it when i see it

o come on u know u believe

little bit

yes but QED u r a fkn doctor innit

― I am banman (cozwn), Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:56 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is this a handwriting joke :(

Tablet + all those oddball iPhone synth/generative music apps = me first in line to buy one.

Bebot on tablet = Awesome

http://gizmodo.com/5433988/apple-patent-application-reveals-a-bumpy-tablet

internet is ridiculous http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/25/apple-islate

some real private eye work there

the irony of calling item expected a year ago 'islate'

it occurred to me the other day that iPhone OS is far, far, far, far superior to desktop operating systems for about 90% of the population. compare installing an app. updating an app. starting an app. quitting it. buying something. it's no contest.

It's much more like the appliance vision they had for the Mac

yeah the appstore/iphone os is a GAME CHANGER

i mean, re: the tablet, or subnotebooks or whatever, i would imagine that a very large number of people would actually welcome a wholesale shift to iPhone OS, multitasking or no multitasking.

So tablet is actually abt replacing the Mac

i think they need to get some multitasking going. Not neccessarily every app but some way to make it more useful.

But I'm kinda an OSX hater right now. It just doesn't work the way it's supposed to work. Thank god for appzapper.

they do; instapaper, for example, wd be 1,000,000,000x better if it could update its feeds in the background. but that eats into memory, and as a tightly-controlled appliance how does the os regulate that?

but yes I see os x becoming the 'pro' or 'developer' os.

finally with iphone os we have dispensed with the concept of files and folders - and the need to find the fucking things. we've almost gotten rid of the whole concept of 'saving' which should have been obolete years ago imo

in theory ya but u don't actually do much of anything on the iphone that overlaps with most direct use of files and folders - when was the last time you created or edited a document or large project on your iphone?

we've almost gotten rid of the whole concept of 'saving' which should have been obolete years ago imo

wait. what?

he's right.

having to save your document is a huge weakness in any program. there's no reason that you should ever lose data because you "forgot to save." computers have enough memory right now to both autosave constantly and keep a history of your document so you can go back and undo changes—the only real weakness of saving.

ya but u don't actually do much of anything on the iphone that overlaps with most direct use of files and folders

i think a lot of people don't do anything on their Macs that overlaps either. iTunes + iPhoto have got ppl used to the model of the app taking care of the filesystem for you, and Google Docs shows how that can work for WP apps etc. Drag-and-drop covers 99% of interaction cases as well.

even pro programs are moving that direction - adobe lightroom, bridge

seriously. saving will not be a thing within a decade, except unix legacy/coding stuff, and a good thing too.

lightroom is so so great. easily the best big app i use. expensive to start from scratch like that, but worth it x10000000.

i'd like lightroom better if it made some small usability tweaks tbh.

like, i know it's more of an iphoto thing, but just give me an email button. would it be that hard? pro users need to email their photos too sometimes.

yeah there should be email fb etc buttons in there

i guess it depends on how often "sometimes" is for your target market when deciding if it's worth a button.

the export dialog has a "for email" preset which i use occasionally. if you use it often it's the "export with previous" thing. no reason why that couldn't run an applescript to set up the email, but it doesn't for some reason.

should be a "poke person tagged in this photo"

interface to the ilx api has been vaporware since 1.0 iirc. hopefully that will be the big thing to drive upgrades to 3.0.

the export dialog has a "for email" preset which i use occasionally. if you use it often it's the "export with previous" thing. no reason why that couldn't run an applescript to set up the email, but it doesn't for some reason.

― caek, Sunday, December 27, 2009 3:01 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya i use that sometimes but it adds lots of steps & creates un-needed duplicate files on my HD

i would seriously never use iphoto if lightroom just had a couple adjustments to make me be able to be more social-ish with my pics

guys i just got the whole CS suite for free ^___^

also: how do i crack into my demo aperture catalog and get the photos out of it. all my africa pics are in there :(

wow the whole creative suite suite sweet!

Do you just want the photos, or do you want all the info in the library (crops, corrections, etc.)? If you just need the originals presumably they're just in the catalog as regular files?

i didnt end up taking the whole thing (i really don't need most of it), but i COULD have

well, ideally i'd get all the info (crops corrections etc), but starting from scratch on the photos themselves wouldn't be terrible (gotta learn my way around LR and PS anyway)

googling a little, i'm not even sure it's possible to retain the metadata. you may have to export the masters (with/without edits applied?) in aperture and suck it up. same would be true going the other way. i don't know the details of it though. i've been on LR since the beta.

problem is: i can't get INTO aperture. the demo expired and it is locked ;_;