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Apple announces iPhone now delivers up to 8 hours of talk time, new glass display {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 18th 2007 12:20PM awwwwww pooooor miguel, i feel so sorry for you ... $500 is too much? have you thought about maybe getting a job? I'm so sick of whiners like you ... if you can't afford something, then just don't buy it ... the rest of us will figure out a way to afford the tools we need.
Apple Matters interviews Peter Rojas {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jan 24th 2007 6:55PM Peter Rojas is a stupid dork. HIs Engadget podcast is soul-draining ... his ignorent whine makes you want to take a hammer to your iPod.
Who the F**ck is he to say Apple isn't innovating with the iPhone? In my estimation the iPhone is the most innovative piece of tech to come out in more than five years. Peter is like those kids in high school who think they are cool by putting down everyone else. Somehow only "they" get it, and the rest of us are just stupid, boring lemmings. Well, it takes a lot more than a gay haircut to know what you are talking about Peter. So please do us all a favor and shut your stupid-opinion-filled piehole.
Clubhouse Games in action {Joystiq Nintendo}
Aug 14th 2006 1:51PM is it just me or do the graphics look like a poor quality DOS game from 1986? everything also looks very compressed. somehow the whole thing looks "ported" and not designed for the DS ... dissapointed.
Cringely: blame Vista's delay on OEMs, Apple to sell OS X for PCs {Engadget}
Apr 9th 2006 6:54PM I have to say, Cringley is one of the biggest frauds out there posing as a "tech pundit". He has a long history of not only incorrect predictions -- but downright idiotic, and tinged with more than a little "personal vendetta". For years he predicted the death of Apple -- that was his big insight. This at a time when the iMac was released, Steve Jobs was back and OSX was well on it's way to delivering the best OS experience on the planet. Anyone even remotely clued in to what was happening at Apple knew things were not in a "death spiral" but head way, way up.
THEN in a hush-hush scandal, Cringley claimed to have wired his house from a WiFi connection several miles away, by placing some sort of "repeaters" in the trees between the Wifi connection and his house. Several people tried to replicate this feat, and nobody could figure out how he did it -- or could have. The more people looked into it, the more it became clear his entire claim was a technological fantasy presented as the truth.
Cringley is often "food for though" but his tendency to lie, brag, exaggerate and just plain make things up gives him zero credibility. And if you follow his predictions, you'll see they are often dead wrong and usually grandiose and off the mark. Cringley LOVES to be the "tech guru priest" informing all us little people about the grand trends in technology, but it's mostly smoke, mirrors, ego and delusion.
Seven major studios line up to sell movies online {Engadget}
Apr 4th 2006 3:13AM Apple/iTunes will eventually offer an acceptalbe trade-off between price and experience for movie downloads / rentals. For my money, $4.99 to rent for three days, $12.99 to own (and remember, any DRM'd content that you "own" is actually restricted to your computer and maybe a couple others ... much different than owning a DVD that can be passed along to friends and family quite easily ... therefore I would pay much less to "own" a DRM'd movie than to purchase a physical DVD.
One thought -- perhaps if the movie studios don't cooperate with Apple, Apple will threaten to build in an incredibly easy DVD to iPod Video ripping facility ... Apple will sell tons more video iPods and the studios will gain exactly -- NOTHING. This is Apple's "nuclear option" which i don't believe anyone wants Apple to have to use ... there is just too much money to be made once somebody gets the value proposition right.
TiVo launches newly revised TV listings {PVR Wire}
Feb 17th 2006 11:22PM OK great ... But, WHY can't I use Tivo Central to actually pull up my Tivo information, i.e. season passes, recorded shows, etc. -- what I really want to do is use the web to remotely manage my Tivo wherever and whenever I want. As it stands, TIvo Central is a lame one-way affair; when I pick a new show, i have no idea if I have the room or other programs interfering with it; I have to wait for an email. It would be incredibly useful if Tivo actually used the internet connectivity of Tivo to provide a "virtual networked Tivo" so I could properly program and manage it from the comfort of my desktop or laptop.
Hi-Grade's uDMS P60 teeny tiny Viiv PC {Engadget}
Feb 14th 2006 1:20PM OK just wait until the next Mac mini rev ... it will SLAGHTER this thing ... it's going to have everything this has, but not look like a cable modem from the early 90's ... plus include Front Row to provide an elegant media center solution. Oh, and the price will likely be well under $1,000.
I'm not an apple fanboy, I've just seen this again and again -- PC makers can do amazing things, but the bottom line is can they do it affordably? Everyone thinks Mac's are expensive, but when it comes to packing in tons of well performing, integrated functionality into beautifully designed cases, nobody can touch Apple now.
This is a good sign though -- I hope all PC manufacturers continue getting away from the Dell sh*tbox model of computer design.
Dell discontinues hard drive audio players {Engadget}
Feb 6th 2006 12:44AM I predict Microsoft will launch their rumored "iPod killer" within a year.
They will be swimming upstream with this one ... All of Microsoft's money and all of it's resources cannot buy it inspiration and leadership. Granted, they do seem to operate well when fueled by desperation and envy -- it brings out their "killer instincts" ... but Apple isn't going to roll over like all the patsy's in Microsofts past, in fact Apple right now is in effect a sleeping dragon ... biding it's time until the day it will unleash it's own operating system upon every computer on the planet. Why do you think Apple switched to Intel chips?
But back to the topic at hand: I predict there will NEVER be an "iPod killer". Things are moving too fast; Apple is too innovative; the iPod cements itself and it's ecosystem as a standard more and more every day. As Microsoft is so fond of saying, Apple is "sucking the oxygen" out of the Mp3 digital audio player space ... and leveraging this with new media like video -- for which Apple/Disney is now poised to unleash a torrent of options for consumers.
So another bowling pin has fallen. Next up? Napster, then Creative, at least their MP3 division, after they bleed and bleed and bleed until it really starts to hurt. Have you noticed Napsters home page? The copyright notice hasn't even been updated to 2006 yet -- a small but telling detail -- the wheels are starting to fly off the car, things are coming unhinged, the Napster website has the stale stench of death about it.
Moral of the story? You cannot "kill" the iPod. Many more will try. You can only "bring your product to life" ... does this make sense? Focusing on "killing" the iPod is the surest path to creating a me-too product that can ONLY be inferior and cost more, as nobody has Apple's in-house talent and efficiencies of scale.
Microsoft's on track to portable gaming and media hardware? {Engadget}
Jan 26th 2006 1:33PM When will the bitter retards who claim Apple's success is due to marketing realize that no amount of marketing is effective if you don't have a great product? I remember back before the iPod won the digital music wars all people would complain about is Apple's bad marketing. Now that Apple owns the universe suddenly they have magical powers to fool millions of people into buying the "inferior iPod". Sorry retards -- you can't have it both ways.
Nintendo sez Revolution due in the US before Thanksgiving {Engadget}
Jan 19th 2006 8:53PM One request -- pretentious self-righteous condescending Canadians please stop posting here. Jeez, I'm surprised you guys have internet servive up there. Now back to your beers.
