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Friday, September 7, 2007
Please stop whining
You paid $599 for an iPhone; so did I. And then Apple reduced the price to $399. Now you are whining.
Please shut up about it, ok? I don’t want to hear it. If you didn’t think it was worth $599, why did you pay that much for it? Yes, it is cheaper now, so what? Now people who didn’t think it was worth $599 but is worth $399 will be buying it too. It is called supply and demand, that is how the world works, get used to it.
And now you get a $100 credit from Apple which is nice, but you don’t “deserve it,” you are not “entitled to it,” Apple is being generous.
So. Please stop whining.
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
Steve Jobs: Master of words
From Daring Fireball
Jobs on the enthusiastic reception to iTunes for Windows:
“It’s like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.”
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Friday, February 16, 2007
tweet tweet
The idea of providing presence data is an interesting one; basically providing a service so that my friends know what is going on with me at any given time. Figuring out who is doing what in an easy way makes it simpler to make plans more spontaneously. Right now, the best method that exists amongst my friends is IM away messages. Works ok when people are online, but most people don’t leave themselves logged in all the time, so the system falls down.
Enter twitter. It provides persistent storage of presence data. It can be delivered via the web, via IM, or even via SMS. It seems like a great solution, but granted it only works if people you know also use it. Classic chicken and egg problem. In an effort to start things up, I have signed up and I will try to start using it.
- My twitter page
- Twitterific - A great (free) OS X app for interfacing with twitter
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Saturday, January 13, 2007
San Francisco, Macworld 2007, EFF 16th
I’m back. I made it. I didn’t freak out and get thrown off the plane. I even had a great time. The week was long but productive. Not much point in talking about the work stuff as no one who reads this really cares. Suffice to say it was geat to put faces to names and meet new faces and forget their names.
Tuesday after work, Andrew and I wandered down to Pier 39 and along the waterfront which is where I took most of the pictures. The big excitement for me at least came Thursday night, when I got to go to both Macworld and the EFF’s Sweet 16 party.
Macworld was just cool. It is the ultimate Apple person’s destination. I have been to Macworlds in New York before, but the one in San Francisco is just better, no questions asked. It really is an overload of stuff. I was looking through my bag-o-schwag when I got home and I found things I had put in it from vendors I don’t even remember visiting. As for the big ticket items? The iPhone looks very cool, I am going to seriously consider getting one. The Apple TV also looks very cool, although I think my current set up is more than suffiecient for now. But maybe when I finaly splurge for an HD TV, the extra $299 will be worth it.
The EFF Party was very exciting and a bit unnerving. It was clear to me that most of the people who come to these events are regularls, so I felt out of place a little. But I eneded up meeting a very nice woman who authors A Dress a Day. This is obviously not my thing, but she is apparently near the top of the game for her genre. We had a great time talking about all sorts of things. (And when I got home and mentioned it to Rachel, she was like “Oh yeh, I used to read that a lot.”) As I looked around the crowd, I realized there were many people present that I was used to seeing either as subject matter or posters for sites like Boing Boing. Not to mention that for most of the evening, Bruce Schneier was maybe 5 feet away from me bad cameraphone picture). I could get very used to going to events like that.
So I had a great time. I have linked to pictures I took and to pictures others took of the EFF event (as I didn’t have my camera). Enjoy
Some links
- My trip pictures - This is the sorted picture sets and has what I think were the good shots
- All my Macworld pictures, unedited - Many out of focus and bad shots, but if you want to see everything, here you go
- Vallywag pictures of EFF Party
- More pictures from the EFF Party (I found me in one of these, can you?)
- Even more pictures from the EFF Party
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Sunday, September 10, 2006
MacArthur Center Apple Store Opening
So I finally did it; I made it to an Apple Store opening and it was cool. It was campy, filled with cheesy enthusiasm, and reminiscent of high school pep rallies. But it was wonderful. Being surrounded by hundreds of crazy Apple fanboys (and girls) is a unique experience to say the least. The whole trip was just fun.
Being squeezed into Jim’s car with 4 other people wouldn’t normally seem like a good idea, but somehow it just added a certain extra crazy atmosphere to the whole trip. How often do you get to squash into a car with other Apple geeks and spend the entire ride down to Norfolk talking about the various pros and cons of different Apple coding techniques?
So thank you to Jim for organizing, and Adam, Tiffany, and Q for a great trip. Oh yeh, I got a t-shirt :)
Picture: Apple Store MacArthur Center Opening
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