Well, thanks
...now I get to buy a new sarcasm detector AND I get to clean the fume hood! Wheee
Gooooood morning, Pacific America. Today is at last the great day. From 10am today, 1700 UTC, Apple will reveal the new era-defining machinery that will power our lives into the future. Our excitable cousins in the UK are not like us here in San Francisco, California. While we hold hope, they hold scorn. This is now a no-hate …
Agreed. My heart rate increased and i was pouring with sweat at the thought of such a glorious day. A day when Windoze Lusers and Android pussies were put firmly in their place.
Then I suddenly realised that I did not give a fsck and that none of my money would be spent on these products.
http://lastcrazy.com/and-not-a-single-fuck-was-given-that-day/
My laptop just started whooping & hollering & clapping, wondering what the hell was going on I went through my browser windows & tabs to discover I'd left the apple-events tab open on Chrome - it appears they're accomodating the 'peasants' with the now recorded video of the event.
I'm so overwhelmed I think I might have to go and lie down in a dark room and listen to some Tangerine Dream.
Jobs was wrong about the sizes of both phones and tablets. He was right about the strategy - vertical integration, stick to the top of the market, avoid talking about prices, create an aspirational brand image. Back in the day I once blew £3k on a Mac because it integrated so easily with a graphics tablet and could use removable 100MByte discs.
But there is no way I would buy one of their watches and I am very unconvinced by this big tablet.
I demand more freak in my show. Let's start with St Crispins Day:
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From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood applauds Tim Cook with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought bought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
Oops,
That would be me, commentarding on a Samsung Note Pro, and it cost ONLY 375 of Her Maj's finest....
I am looking forward to Apple-ites saying how amazing this big, sodding expensive walled-garden new tablet iz, and no fecker has EVER done it before!
But I could be wrong
My ha'pennies...
Jay.
No. We weren't. Apple makes a point of inviting every journo and blogger in San Francisco except us. After the public show, they thrust hacks at the gear they've announced so they can do hands-on reviews, take photos, and talk to exec with PR handlers breathing down necks. And they wouldn't want us within 500ft of that.
C.
Well, as an Apple user (and also a Windows/Linux user too - let's not be biased) ... I'm seriously underwhelmed by the new products.
It's about time Apple came up with something truly revolutionary and disruptive yet again instead of these small incremental changes year on year ... it's getting dull.
Ugh. No revolutions there except for the medical stuff, that was quite impressive. But for the rest? Bleagh. I entertained myself with trying to spot anyone who actually LOOKED excited when they uttered that compulsory word and others from a VERY small dictionary of hyperbole. I was not thrilled with all the people who were thrilled to be there, and the day that Apple makes something that is NOT "more advanced than ever" means the Earth has stopped to pin because duh, otherwise you would not show it on such an event. "We have made this thing slower and simpler" just doesn't sell so well.
Anyway, such a non-fibrous diet of hype causes me problems, so excuse me while I go and take some laxatives to dump core.
Can't believe they went with 16GB in the base model phone again.. Android phones can get away with this because they usually have SD card slots. If you're going to charge so much for what is basically a fast SD card imbedded in the phone, at least make it so the price difference between models is as negligible as the cost of said SD card.
If I can by a high speed 64GB SD card for under $50.. the cost of a 64GB iPhone 6whatever should be absolutely no more than $50 above the base model. I'm pretty sure that Apple can get better prices on SD RAM than I can.. but if not they should look at buying theirs from Walmart or Office Depot..
I see they're keeping their margins high - $99 for a stylus (seriously, what tech do you need in a stylus to justify that price tag?) and $169 for the keyboard (and you could just about get a chromebook for that price).
And yet, people will pay those prices. For some, the price will be worth it, I guess.
I hope Apple has licensed Wacom's excellent tech -- their Bamboo Fineline stylus is excellent. I've used one with my Pad since last Christmas and been quite happy with it (fine point, not the big rubber knob of standard styli, bluetooth, and 1024-levels pressure-sensitive). Besides Wacom's own Bamboo Paper notebook app, other apps support the stylus, including Smart Note which does tolerable OCR if you print relatively neatly and -- for old-school geeks -- can export to LaTeX, among other formats.
I assume that was a reference to the German officer who surrendered to the Russians at the end of WW2. In an effort to ingratiate himself he began "Today is a great day...", and the Russian officer replied "Today is a great day for us. For you over there, it may be different."
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Requiring a stylus was the norm before the i-things.
It was all very clunky -basically some minor adaptions of desktop GUIs.
I had a personal organiser Sharp running Linux (still have it somewhere). Required a stylus. Unless you had fingers shaped like styli.
Palm was probably on the right path, but still.. required a stylus.
People just seem to forget how massive a change the iOS was.