New Apple Lust Objects

Sources inside Apple say that Jobs is hiding the real reason for his treatments: He wants undergo radical hormone replacement in order to make a run to become California’s first female governor in 2010.

lololololol

Most shocking news was the Jobs story and no Mini or iMac refresh - though it might come soon, why would they bother holding off on it? Pretty underwhelming...

This is funny because hormones ARE proteins! Bossy little bitches.

multi-touch trackpad is pretty dope imo

What's more multi-touch about the new ones compared to the last lot?

i don't know? i just bought my first laptop ever -- which is my first computer purchase since my g4 ppc swivel-neck imac

i am not the guy to ask

Mostly it's that smooth glass/push button thing which is really nice. Also, the standard Macbook/non-Pros didn't have the fancier three and four-button gestures that the Pros got earlier in the year, I believe, and now do have them.

never thought I'd say this but I prefer my current MBP to the update. =(

the two-finger scroll is *fantastic*. the two-button pinch to zoom and rotate to spin are nice. but i seriously haven't used the three-button gesture ONCE since i got this thing, can't imagine using a four-button gesture. and not having a button just doesn't sound like a great idea to me. I'm still not really down with the mighty mouse for that reason.

and i'm sort of pissed at apple about iLife 09. some of that stuff - particularly the iPhoto stuff - really seems like it could've / should've been included in an update for iLife 08 users.

i mean, i own two ipods, two iphones, two macbook pros, an airport express, extreme and time capsule. and a cinema display. and i pay for mobile me. and now i have to *pay* even more just to be able to sort my pictures by something other than date!?!?

i should just give them my firstborn and be done with it.

this is why apple is genius, not only do they reign supreme at the software-as-a-magazine-subscription model, they also managed to bolt it onto the fuck-you-our-hardware-sells-at-a-premium model from back in the day

oh that's why they call it a "genius bar"

it would be nice though if you could just go ahead and buy a three-year contract for any + all OS and iWhatever upgrades whenever you buy a machine from them, along with your mandatory applecare and the ball gag

seriously though it's not like i'm asking for a free upgrade to CS4 or whatever ... but paying $100 for flickr integration and the chance to sort by photo location?

i keep hitting "software update" hoping an iphoto update will magically appear

i guess i've been spoiled by all those nice itunes and iphone updates ... thank god they didn't charge me for google maps integration on the iphone

you should've heard when they demanded $10 from my GF just to let her ipod tooch work the App Store. she's not used to the rough stuff like we are.

i regret every dollar i've spent so far at the app store

even the free yelp app sort of sucks

I kinda wonder if ten years from now they will have a photo sequence of an iphone owner like they have with that poor lady who was addicted to meth

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Apple's pretty generous really, considering companies like Microsoft won't even fix some basic functionality bugs without fisting you for an entire upgrade.

true ... but sometimes you wonder if "it just works" refers to the product or the sales model

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the two-finger scroll on my G4 Powerbook rules

the only apps i am happy about buying on the store are:

- frenzic (awesome cheap tetris-y game... super-addictive... seriously... only good game i've downloaded)
- STM app (montreal bus/metro schedule)

I'm happy w/Instapaper and Byline.

and Stanza, but it was free so doesn't really count.

Wé aer going back to the Mothership this morning when the Company Store opens. Anyone want anything? I'm going to try and see if I can talk my brother into buying me an iPod since he's spent the entire holiday addicted to his iPhone like crack.

ok I think the new shuffle is stupid but I just downloaded the new iTunes, which said that it makes browsing large libraries fast, and sure enough, there is no lag when scrolling through my 37,452 item library, where there used to be very annoying and noticeable pauses. Bravo.

am i crazy to want the new macbook pro? ive always had windows machines but that thing sure is pretty and my Toshiba laptop is making the most godawful whirring and ticking sounds like its about to die

I am so sick of waiting for my build to order Apple imac - ordered on march 3 and ship date is april 21 - just because I chose the ATI card rather than the nvidia - ridiculous

Royal Trux (rules!) - yeah you are crazy - I'd wait for the next iteration myself - I've seen too many complaints on various mac forums ... or - ask yourself how bad you need the portability - that's why I'm getting the imac - everywhere has a terminal, your pockets have stuff anyways ...

what are people complaining about? i thought this generation of mbps was considered pretty solid.

you can always get a wrong idea from reading complaints forums tho

Case in point: Is happiness overrated?

Are we expecting anything good tomorrow or will it just be jesus phone with a new hat and an invitation to drop $100 onsnow leopard?

Can't decide if there's going to be something tablety. The docs for the iPhone 3.0 SDK seem a bit more generic than the previous ones -- more emphasis on not hardcoding to specific screen sizes and reference to "the device" and "the device's default sizes" and so forth -- which suggests different machines running Mobile OS X, but beyond that, no idea.

I would love something tablety, e-reader plus note taking (it doing itunes is probably agiven but I could care less about that really), I doubt it is going to turn up although what you mention about iPhone 3.0 sound promising.

think this is the first time i've genuinely given a shit, just because my contract is up w/sprint and i wanna see if it's worth jumping to ATT or getting a palm pre

the answer is still blackberry.

yeah, but i want something that plays nice with my mac (mostly calendar, since i use gmail IMAP)

also: epocrates, eventually

oh n/m, apparently it's on everything BUT the iphone

blackberry plays very nice with mac, basically I sync everything through google. anything I put on my calendar on either mac or Blackberry appears on the other within seconds. Mail is done via IMAP, I love it.

epocrates website says it is on the iphone.

I will be buying two of the next model iPhone. Can't wait.

blackberry plays very nice with mac, basically I sync everything through google. anything I put on my calendar on either mac or Blackberry appears on the other within seconds. Mail is done via IMAP, I love it.

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wait, so you have all yr cals on google? i should probably do this. explain.

epocrates is available on iphone, but it's not the real deal

not that it REALLY matters to me, as a lowly MS1

iCal to GCal via the CalDev sync built into iCal (calendars have to be created on google)
Gcal to Blackberry via Google Sync
Blackberry Contacts to GMail via Google sync

the only thing that is missing is Address Book to GMail, support is there but you have to hack it to make it appear and it doesn't work very well.

Avoid the Blackberry Storm though.

huh, i'll look into it

is it gonna be a new design iphone or just the same design but w/new components/features/camera?