6 posts tagged “apple”
--Why Prince didn't electrocute himself in the rain. I'll admit to thinking during the performance that Prince exploding would have made for a pretty spectacular finale.
--The RIAA completely misses the point of Steve Jobs' open letter to the record industry. Now they're just insulting my intelligence.
--Star Wars fan art. The Stormtroopers one is my favorite.
--Why Prince didn't electrocute himself in the rain. I'll admit to thinking during the performance that Prince exploding would have made for a pretty spectacular finale.
--The RIAA completely misses the point of Steve Jobs' open letter to the record industry. Now they're just insulting my intelligence.
--Star Wars fan art. The Stormtroopers one is my favorite.
--Steve Jobs takes it to the music industry over DRM. "Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat."
--Meteorite found that is reportedly older than the solar system. "These little particles within the meteorite seem to predate everything else. We don't know exactly how old they are, but they could be billions of years older than the rest of the meteorite"
--Oh snap. =/
In the undisputed Shocker of the Millenium, Apple announces the dead sexy iPhone. Widescreen iPod, buttonless touchscreen, OSX, Safari, widgets, and I don't even know what else.
Now all I need is $500 USD and a reason to actually use any of that and I'm all set.
EDIT: Oh, and apparently it also has sensors that turns the touchscreen off when it gets close to your face to prevent inadvertent keystrokes. Let the Naomi Campbell jokes commence.
Reading news items from the past is something I always find fascinating, and today I ran across nice one: Some ten years ago Wired wrote a piece on 101 ways to rescue the once-floundering Apple from the brinks of obselesence. Some of the advice is completely on the nose ("Create commercials featuring real-life people in situations where buying a Mac (or switching to a Mac) saved the day."), some were the basis of some pretty smart decisions ("Stop being buttoned-down corporate and appeal to the fanatic feeling that still exists for the Mac."), some are indicative a few trends Apple was wise to avoid ("Invest heavily in Newton technology"), and some just remain hilarious victims of dramatic irony ("Team up with Sony, which wants to get into the computer business in a big way - think Sony MacMan.").
Basically, if Wired ever gives you business advice, you'd probably be best to listen to a fourth of what they say and run with it.
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Useless trivia alert: The little twisty icon on the Apple Command key is a Scandinavian symbol used to indicate places of interest. Supposedly dating back a thousand years, it gained modern usage on roadsigns to designate historical and tourist landmarks before becoming a last-minute addition to the Apple Macintosh.
The real reason for posting this story? "We're taking the Apple logo in vain!" Heh.
