New Apple Lust Objects

RW otm

I like all the people asking me (since I am apparently TECH GURU FRIEND OMG):
1. If I'm getting one
2. If I think it's the greatest thing ever
3. If I think it will totally suck
4. If I really think Apple fucked up by not making 'business apps' work with it (wtf does this mean, cryptic non-techie friend)

I also enjoy just saying that I think it looks like a pretty good product and will do fairly well.

On the other side, I look forward to managers understanding why cross-platform, standards and accessibility-capable webpages are a good idea now. I already had someone ask if one of our contract bid websites will work on an iPhone.

it is amusing to imagine that apple would steal the obnoxious blackberry e-mail signature line wholesale, though.

I totally wish I could short sell a few hundred shares of AAPL now at $122.

1) maybe, but not first gen
2) better than anything so far
3) no unless you're not good at things
4) no

it is amusing to imagine that apple would steal the obnoxious blackberry e-mail signature line wholesale, though.

They *are* doing this.

they are? even in message board text boxes??

in the US nobody even knows what "3g" means; i doubt an announcement of some future "3g" version would change anyone's mind

Suddenly everyone knows that "3g" is somehow faster than the iphone, though. That is all they know, but oh man, do they know it.

So, the blackberry crap relies on something that has to be installed in front of your corporate email server, right? Because even the woman at the AT&T store I dropped by was saying something about how it won't do "business email" which I find pretty stupid. Hey admins, turn on Exchange's shitty imap support.

Uh, and my blackberry namedrop was meant to reference the fact that there's a proprietary infrastructure in place for other shit to work, the iphone isn't lacking key functionality or anything.

They *are* doing this.

I meant the "blah blah blah tm wireless handheld" dit dit dit dit dit crap. It just says "sent using my iPhone" which is better copy. Of course on either device it's supposedly trivial to turn that off.

and yeah blackberry requires that your company interface with RIM's datacenters in Canada and/or wherever they keep them for overseas (ireland? bangkok?) so RIM can push without your company having to know their proprietary crypto keys

of course some folks don't like this and go and buy their own rim servers to stick in the basement, but in-housing is strictly for the paranoid and rich, you know?

has anybody come up with a 0-day for Safari iPhone yet?

Not yet, they are all trying to hack the firmware to get it to work with t-mobile.

http://www.marketcircle.com/iphoney/

I wish I'd read the iphone PR shit though, somehow I missed that the lcd is 160 dpi, that little screen looks pretty sweet.

whoa, i had no idea either

that's actually the most exciting thing about the iphone by far

catch up! we were slavering over the screen res at the original announcement. nom nom nom

still haven't seen one in real life! tomorrow, i hope.

books might actually be readable at that rez

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170129995323

Here we go agane

hi dere imacs

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http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/08/dsc_1297.jpg

apple ghraib

Are there any good coverage sites? MacNN and gizmodo are taking hours to refresh, and engadget's coverage always drives me nuts by dumping pictures inline

macrumorslive.com, maybe

<img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/08/dsc_1309.jpg";>

WANT

my mom just bought a 999 17-inch

TOLD YOU SO

http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/07/live-from-apples-summer-mac-product-press-conference/

ooh, so now I can organise my photos into folders eh? coo ur

gimme more metadata in my document browser apps.

"The crowd starts clapping, which seems a bit unnecessary" LOL

Wait, no numeric keypad? Boo *and* hiss.

(ha ha, it's the G4 mini keyboard all over again)

even it had a numberpad!

o, it's just the wireless one that has no numbers.

oh yr rite! (times two)

I am ordering the wired version of that keyboard as soon as the store comes back up

(because the old bluetooth one SUCKS)

What don't you like? My one is pretty good, but the wireless mighty mouse is shit.

i'll have the numeric-keypadless bluetooth one for my outdated 17" G5 plz

what's the diff between wired/wireless mighty mouse? (i love MM, but i know some people are irked by the lift-finger right click thing)

hmm @ all-new imovie

mine goes randomly nuts -- becomes sluggish, stops listening to clicks, and you have to cycle bluetooth to get it to behave again. It's my second one, so I don't think it's just the model.

hmm at .mac 'overhaul' so far generally :-/

new iMacs are fugly based on the engadget pics

yr kooky

fuck me this new iMac is basically everything I wanted when I sprang for a Mac Pro

i am tempted to cut this short i'm working on in the new imovie just to see how it works.. if i can get my hands on it soon