Technology: Apple’s innovation cease to amaze. The cutting edge rumor is that they intend to release a special laptop known as “the brick”. Doing its name justice, “the brick” is supposedly carved out of a solid “brick” of titanium, making it seamless and screwless! The price for such water-blasting crafted item sounds like it would be extraordinary. While it may not be 100% indesctructible, the durability of Apple’s new laptop technology will be a practically unprecedented release sturdy portability. Here are some cool factoids about it:
Macenstein had the best prediction of its bizarre codename:
“it is likely that it is simply a name for an upcoming product (or group of products) that Apple thinks will be sexy enough to pull a huge marketshare away from Microsoft. After all, how do you break “Windows”? You throw a brick through them!”
This is in place of the Tuesday News Blip for this week. I got a huge kick out of this video.
Very impressed with the diverse collaboration of so many well known people for this humorous anecdote of Billy boy’s last day. Also, it’s always amusing and cool to see so many well-known people just casually operating in their down time modes out of the limelight (albeit a humorous glimpse). Magnifico.
Here’s another interesting sequence of videos showing alternative angles from the technological leaders of Microsoft and Apple, twists you would wouldn’t expect like:
Woz. He’s so brilliant. But he just appears so gypped in the business world. Trampled on by cutthroat business sharks. But ironically he’s the smartest person with apple. The mind behind the first apple computer.
Jobs definitely always pushed the sales. Woz is just a curious. He just looks so uncomfortable these days! Like uncomfortable with his body. One interesting pattern you’ll notice here is that Woz is continually talking about the past. “That’s the way it worked back in the day.” “Back in the old days…”. That’s great, but I think Steve Jobs’s prescience and vision and Bill Gates’s ability to always stay on top of new market trends makes for better business leadership. Here he is reaffirming that the tech business (unfortunately) became about programming and actual “tech” work and instead, more about business, wearing the right suit, and sales.
Utter mayhem has been released with people’s bricked iPhones and server delays with mobileme. Despite those temporary delays, I’m still convinced apple has it in the bag and the fact that it’s juggling so much, merely shows it’s versatility.
With mobileme launching two days ago, the transition between old school .mac and mobileme, the iPhone 2.0 upgrade, the release of the app store, AND the new iPhone 3G released all within the same 48-72 time span?! Jeez, each of those huge projects (mobile me, .mac-mobileme, 2.0, and iPhone 3G, and app store) — 5 massive undertakings, I’m astonished things are running as “good” as they are! Seriously. Just one of those projects could (maybe should?) have been the focus of apple’s “integration” teams for atleast a month or quarter of year, but piling them all into the same 2-day span?!! I mean that’s a great marketing explosion, but it can also result in an infrastructure explosion with such change simultaneously. Anyway, Apple still has it in the bag.
Just think, the heap o’ troubles users experienced today was temporary, a fleeting removeable blip in the apple experience…just think, microsoft and non-apple os users experience todays mayhem ALL the time! haha! Basically, I think apple will resolve the technical difficulties, and also they were kind of expected given how much they’re endeavoring. I still give htem props, though, as always.
Well, the 2.0 iPhone OS upgrade should be out (for free, yes!) soon. The newly added Address Book search features, advanced calculator, and other trivial to incredibly useful tweaks and adjustments will further solidify and expand the intuitive features and potent features of the iPhone.
Someone got a hold of an xml link from apple’s servers, apple tried to catch it, but the link spread virally, and now you can upgrade to 2.0 before the official release (Holding down option while clicking upgrade software prompts a window sheet to locate the upgrade locally). However, this is unadvised.
When the crystal ball was examined after the WWDC many guessed June 27, ’08. I’m itching as much to get that 2.0 software upgrade to test out the free apps as many are eager to get a 3G!
Pogue’s recent article of the app store made me realize just how BIG the iPhone is from an electronic industry point of view. The iPhone won’t just knock of GPS companies, it will consume companies that sell house-wide remote controllers (Apple’s Remote app makes all such devices obsolete practically). It’s easy to foresee that the iPhone will cannibalize many other related electronic devices because of consolidation sake: Why spend money and have the extra clutter of an additional electronic device (like a GPS or a house-wide remote) when you can just utilize your PHONE to to acquire those features! Apple has intuitive, potent simplicity combined with consolidation of numerous electronic industries all plugged into its single iPhone device. Utter brilliance. What also has become apparent is how the iPhone truly will become the “third” tier of apple (along with Mac and iTunes).
Indeed, the iPhone has become the new (and quite “real”) tricorder.
Conclusively, Apple’s App Store is sheer brilliance. Taking online merchandizing of great iPhone apps out of web browsers and into apple’s home field of iTunes from a marketing and a development perspective advances apple incredibly. This will further the music revolution making iTunes “The” online community for buying (and now selling) apps, music, and anything that will enhance the already astonishing features of the iphone. Here’s my detail of the outlook on navigation, gaming, reference, and cool knick-knack’s for iPhone sdk.
The remote free app
that transforms you GPSing, Phoning, Texting, Websurfing, Picturetaking, Social-Netowrking, (and much more) Iphone into a WIFO remote control is such an awesome free gift for apple to throw in there. So like apple. Awesome! Additionally, while the GPS is a massive feature upgrade esp. considering that navigation is a core value of mine, it’s good to know (according to David Pogue) that metal devices (like a car) can obscure the gps. But cool that it’s authentic gps on the new phone. Also relieved to hear that even though 3g speeds are top of the charts, you can’t even use your 3g speeds in 10 states and only in certain cities that have the at&t coverage. So your good non-3G is still golden.
For the longest time I couldn’t figure out the difference between all those awesome Italian European coffee drinks. Here’s the basic distinctions of the drinks similar to each other.
Cappuccino — Uses equal part milk and expresso milk:expresso = 1:1. But the milk is “microfoamed” so it’s 2x it’s volume. Making the milk volume:expresso = 2:1 even though the original quantities are equal. If the milk is poured over the expresso you get a cappuccino, if the expresso is poured over the milk, apparently you get a totally different drink, a macchiato (ridiculous but one could say sophisticated).
Latte — Milk:expresso = 2:1. Twice the amount of milk as cappuccino. Milk is heated instead of microfoamed.
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