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The point is that @ $150/barrel, the problem will take care of itself. Not today or tomorrow, but quicker than many would like to think.
There is an ocean of stuff in the ground...
Snow Leopard, Flash, and ZFS should all converge nicely at a upper-end but not unreasonable consumer level in ~12 months.
At $150/barrel, we're going to find more oil than we can consume without completely clogging up the atmosphere. Necessity being a mother, and all...
...costs exactly the same...(minus $100...)
So which is it - exactly the same or -$100?
...they are going to sell boatloads...
Without question. Including to me. I just don't see anything that makes this an obvious slam dunk relative to Android. And I'm really disappointed that Apple couldn't do something about the semi-feudal "capitalism" of the current mobile carrier business.
I know, I know, they never claimed (or even hinted) they would, I just had hopes...
after having 24 hours to reflect on everything, i think i have to say i'm disappointed with the keynote. basically, a hardware upgrade to the phone, and nothing else particularly noteworthy.
the cost thing sucks. had hopes Apple would bring some kind of rationalization to mobile pricing.
ah well.
there's always tomorrow.
someone is going to have to explain how this "push" replacement for background tasks is going to work for location-based apps, 'cause i freely admit i don't get it.
One for Dilleet - MLB.com has an "instant update/replay" app for iPhone2.
We miss ya, bud...
There is nothing special about mac hardware except for form factor.
That's exactly it. What makes Mac hardware special is that virtually every bit of Apple hardware out there is...well...not special. As opposed to the Dells, where every model number comes in 8,342,432,432 unique hardware combinations.
Imagine selling 20 million OSX copies by years end...
It would only add ~5% to revenues, assuming zero cannibalization of hardware sales (big assumption) and no damage to Brand Percpetion (bigger assumption).
Isn't anything running 10.x by definition a "mac"? EOM.
We've become what we once despised in others.
What the hell, I'm dealing with that reality every morning for the past post-acquisition year, everytime I get up and actually go to work. What's a little more karma damage?
:(
Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose
Any minute now I'm expecting all hell to break loose
People are crazy and times are strange
I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
I used to care, but things have changed...
Would two versions of the OS be entirely for technical reasons?
They bloody well better be! I don't want my desktop OS constrained by concerns over power, flash storage, etc.
A lot of stuff came up "no longer available" (it's in the "Just Added" bin!) or "this content is being modified" or....Methinks the guy updating the database didn't get the memo on time. ;)
Seems to be better now.
If there's anyone left who actually lives in Detroit...Congrats on an outstanding cup run. And thanks for breaking the Euro Captain curse!
And the first movie purchase is...
...Ghostbusters.
I'm so ashamed.
I think what you're trying to do is a bit beyond the scope of the tool you're using, though I heartily commend the effort. There's a free demo of Aperture available, might be worth a shot.
Cancelling Zip as we speak...EOM.
Hey man - I can be as wrong as everyone else! :) Don't shoot me if this turns out to be one of those times...
It's a stretch, but I wouldn't rule it out.
I now think it's a done deal. Sorry, can't link you to anything, just call it a hunch like the one about the $200 top. ;)
Fortunately, this just doesn't sound like an Apple kind of thing. Because you're right, a solar phone is a net eco-negative relative to a Li-ion phone.
However I'm not sure that matters on a board dedicated to a company producing gadgets by the millions in the least eco-sensitive place on earth.
(not suggesting they're alone - they're not!)
This should bring the iPhone to 67 countries this year.
Interesting how they're pre-announcing all these 3G providers. Wouldn't it be something if Apple somehow convinced this network of providers to collaborate on a truly global, seamless, roaming-less network...
For iPhone users only, of course.
OT:
OLED was everywhere at SID. Roughly 30% of Samsung's wall space was dedicated to OLEDs in sizes from 1" to 31". Sony announced they will be mass-producing "large" OLEDs for consumer TV applications in '09.
The stuff looks good - damn good - and I would be surprised if we don't see shipping laptops with OLED screens - maybe still a pricey BTO option, but shipping nonetheless - within 9-12 months. And if it can be done for laptop sizes, iPhone size should be a slam dunk. :)
The tide is rising. Will be interesting to see if OLED does to LCD what LCD did to Plasma - squeeze it out of ever-larger form factors.
Those look pretty good. I've had very good luck with the G-Tech ones:
http://www.g-technology.com/Products/G-DRIVE-mini.cfm
Apple at SID.
Ok, not Apple exactly. Samsung, to be exact. Showing a 52" LCD with RGB LED backlights, local dimming, 1500 nits brightness (~3x a "typical" TV at max). Colors and contrast to sear your eyeballs.
What does it have to do with Apple?
Part of the demo clip as a nicely stylized Apple logo. A clue? Copyright gray area?
Only time will tell...
Canada Day is July 1. Tomorrow is...well it's kind of complicated...but it's neither what it's called nor what you seem to think. :)
Would love to see what Apple designers could do with this and SSD storage - "piece of paper" Air 2.0?
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/samsungs-12-1-inch-oled-laptop-makes-us-swoon/
Apple thinks different and implements in almost everything they do.
That's a bit over the top, given they use the same eco-mess factories in China as everyone else. A green roof is nice and all - but let's be frank - it's a symbolic gesture at best given what is being sold underneath that roof.
...iCommunism...
That's actually pretty funny. Nice!
Better Red than Dead. EOM.
Geez - if that's the first guess maybe I'm not low enough! :) That's the right area, just hoping to snag a momentary panic. Most likely it'll never even fill...
after thinking about it, i'm leaving some overnight low-balls in on YHOO. may well live to regret and wouldn't recommend trying this with anything but money that carries no emotional attachment. :)
Hillary is peecee, Obama is Mac...
From a safe distance they both seem more like Etch-a-Sketches.
I feel for ya. NO IDEA what Yahoo management is thinking. They were tossed an undeserved lifeline and chose to spit on it.
Unbelievable.
Hard to imagine some execs aren't going to end up in a courtroom over this debacle.
nice article. this (and the thought of a gin cart being pushed into my office) caught my eye...
The way you explore complex ecosystems is you just try lots and lots and lots of things, and you hope that everybody who fails fails informatively...
i've been in-and-out of startup land long enough that i'd forgotten how resistant to so-called failure "real" companies can be.
so you end up in this loop where people are doing obviously high-risk things, but they can't be treated as high-risk because then they couldn't be justified as budget line-items and besides who wants failures (informative or otherwise) on their annual performance report, so this charade plays out where they're treated like "real" projects, so it takes a VERY VERY long time to fail because you can't take a single meaningful step until a @#$##@@ waterfall chart is pushed up, down and sideways through the hierarchy, and by the time you can finally acknowledge it's all been a (useful) dead end your entire division has been spun off to some private equity company based in Dubai.
forget that the whole process is based on organizational double think and therefore causes any sane person's brain to explode - it's just damn inefficient - the fastest way to succeed is to fail as quickly in the process as possible.
ok, i'm done whinging, thanks for the couch all.
...cubicles and casual Fridays not your thing?
just shoot me now.
first job out of college was at a mega-corp - i suppose it's useful to get a reminder of just how bloody inefficient and wasteful super-sized "capitalism" really is.
There are startup people, and there are big company people. I think maybe you don't really know which one you truly are until about a year after acquisition.
Anybody got anything interesting to do?
How does the US compete with that?
It can't. It's not supposed to, by design. Enjoy this while you can, because the currency pegs aren't going to hold for much longer.
Am I missing something?
No.
God help them if they decide to slice and dice features or the data plan..
I'm hopeful Apple will not allow that. And I'm also hopeful Apple learned from the last chit-chat with Rogers and has a firm, not-to-distant definition of "later this year". Maybe with the 3G release.
Don't know what it's like in TO, but in V there are all kinds of "stores" doing jailbreaking in bulk.
Seemed to be a site issue - ok for me now too.
"...later this year..."