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    Why People Are Barking Up the Wrong Tree With the iPod Touch Camera Case

    The Fevered Fantasies of Apple's Fanboys

    J-School Identifies Apple-Friendly Financial Aid Loophole

    Steve Jobs and the Power of Refusing Reality

    Microsoft Preparing to Put Zune Out of Its Misery

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    09/01/09

    In reply to The Fevered Fantasies of Apple's Fanboys
    Ryan: If you're going to make fun of Mac fanboys speculating on insane shit that they want to see announced at an Apple event, could you at least have the decency to cross-post it to Gizmodo.

    Nothing irks me like someone without the guts to insult me to my face.
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    Image of Paul.B.Dodd Paul.B.Dodd
    09/01/09

    In reply to The Fevered Fantasies of Apple's Fanboys
    Why do these people list what kind of computers they have underneath their signature like it's a part of their vital organs?
    Do these people jizz in their pants when Apple make a press announcement?
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    09/01/09

    @Paul.B.Dodd: I have Windows 7 runnning on my MacBook Pro.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/01/09

    @Swifter: I have MacPower XL running on my Dell home edition Gateway G51
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    09/01/09

    @Paul.B.Dodd: I had my pancreas replaced with an iTouch.
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    09/01/09

    @MrInBetween: I downloaded my personality from the App Store.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    09/01/09

    @Paul.B.Dodd: Come on over to Gizmodo and watch the LiveBlog. There is indeed a lot of masturbation going on.
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    Image of HenryLovesFonzie HenryLovesFonzie
    05/07/09

    In reply to J-School Identifies Apple-Friendly Financial Aid Loophole
    M-I-Z...
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    Image of Midwesterner in NYC Midwesterner in NYC
    05/07/09

    @HenryLovesFonzie: Ha! I actually went there. Unfortunately, I'm still a PC. Z-O-U!
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    Image of Astigmatism Astigmatism
    05/07/09

    In reply to J-School Identifies Apple-Friendly Financial Aid Loophole
    NYU law required me to have a Windows laptop to take my exams (we weren't allowed to have a Mac laptop with Bootcamp, etc., so my almost-new Powerbook was out), and yes, I could get that counted in my federally-subsidized loans. Why is this news again, other than some obnoxious not-yet-a-journalism-student thinks that there's a conspiracy behind it?
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    Image of La Cieca La Cieca
    01/14/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs and the Power of Refusing Reality
    it is his own body which has proven resistant to his formidable power to reshape the world.


    Gawd, that's about the most mawkish thing I've ever read! At least let the poor bastard die before you embalm him in schmaltz!

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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    01/14/09

    @La Cieca:
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    01/14/09

    @unclevanya: (Yeah I know this started at Valleywag but still...)
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    Image of Krashstar Krashstar
    01/14/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs and the Power of Refusing Reality
    Does this mean Steve is about to unfriend everybody?
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    01/14/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs and the Power of Refusing Reality
    So Steve Jobs has been been irresponsibly denying Steve Jobs the medical treatments that might have saved Steve Jobs' life?


    I think that horrible. How could Steve Jobs do such a thing?


    If Steve Jobs dies, he'll have no one but Steve Jobs to blame. And then, for the rest of his life, Steve Jobs will have to live with the guilt of having caused his own death.

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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    01/14/09

    Fucking Scientologists!
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    01/14/09

    @MisterHippity: I'm going to start writing that in response to all my comments
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    01/14/09

    @MisterHippity: "It was clear Teve Tobs had it goin' on."
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    Image of PrincessKashmir PrincessKashmir
    01/14/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs and the Power of Refusing Reality
    It's a bit early to be skimming the files for his obituary. And FYI, those examples you give to justify your assertion that Jobs has hubris: They all seem like incredibly forward-thinking innovations from a remarkable man.


    I'm not an Apple girl, but I know when credit is due. Hope he gets better.

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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    01/14/09

    @PrincessKashmir: I hope he gets better, too, but frankly, with pancreatic cancer, he's already beaten the odds.
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    Image of RonMwangaguhunga RonMwangaguhunga
    01/14/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs and the Power of Refusing Reality
    I wish him the best, but as someone who covered Jobs for years, worse than being fast-and-loose with the truth is the fact that he studiously never groomed a successor. He was, I think paranoid at the prospect of ever losing his baby again (as if that could ever happen). His bad to the Apple shareholders, who are in a fine mess to come up with a replacement who is cult.
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    01/14/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs and the Power of Refusing Reality
    These are interesting observations, but they presume to come from a place inside his head that none of us have access to. I think it's still a little too early to try to mold him into a mythical character, equipped with the stock dramatic motivations.


    But I could just be coming from an emotional place right now. Either way, let's not bury him before he's dead.

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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    01/14/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs and the Power of Refusing Reality
    We cannot claim to know that Steve Jobs the man has been living in a state of denial about the truth of his health.


    The public announcements of public company and public figure —

    however confusing, outrageous, counterfactual —

    these are not the man’s private thoughts.

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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    01/14/09

    @iplaudius: There is also nothing wrong with living in denial about declining health. It's very natural. I was in denial for about 3 months that I couldn't stop losing weight because of an illness. It wasn't until I hit 99 pounds that I realized I needed to make life changes.
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    Image of SeaBassTian SeaBassTian
    01/09/09

    In reply to Microsoft Preparing to Put Zune Out of Its Misery
    I don't think MS is ready to give up the ghost just yet! As a dedicated Zune consumer, I certainly hope not. I don't know what the actual market share is, but I am sure that Microsoft turning a healthy profit on the Anti-Ipod.
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    Image of WagCurious WagCurious
    01/09/09

    In reply to Microsoft Preparing to Put Zune Out of Its Misery
    Should I even bother mentioning that the "recent glitch which rendered a popular Zune model dead on New Year's" was completely due to the processor HARDWARE, not the Microsoft software?


    You know, I would say stand up and something, but I feel so bad that they canned every single Valleywag writer (except Owen) that I can't bring myself to do it. Owen's almost-accurate reporting is as good as it gets, and I love the big bear.

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    Image of HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
    01/09/09

    @WagCurious: You are wrong, sir.
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    Image of rekoil rekoil
    01/09/09

    @WagCurious: No, it was software. It was a bug in the driver code for a specific chip, but it was most definitely the driver software, not the chip itself. See for yourself.
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    Image of WagCurious WagCurious
    01/10/09

    @HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak: OK, I dumbed down my comment for the new Gawker readers... I should have said "a driver written by Freescale, not Microsoft software".
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    Image of WagCurious WagCurious
    01/10/09

    @rekoil: Yes, you are correct. The point is the fault was Freescale's, not Microsoft's.
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    Image of websterphreaky websterphreaky
    01/09/09

    In reply to Microsoft Preparing to Put Zune Out of Its Misery
    AND THE iPUD (LATE TO MARKET) "which mimicked" the RIO,which PRECEEDED it by over a YEAR!


    That's Stevie Gods, the GREAT iNOvator.

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    Image of Krashstar Krashstar
    01/09/09

    @websterphreaky: Well, the iPod certainly didn't mimic the 'success' of Rio, if that's what you mean.


    "Noted all it's failures" is closer to the mark. And then there's Microsoft, which seems unable to take note of anything at all.

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    Image of Kari's Favorite Mark Kari's Favorite Mark
    01/09/09

    In reply to Microsoft Preparing to Put Zune Out of Its Misery
    The problem is they haven't forced a monopoly in any other business than OS, which has funded all of their ill-considered failures in other businesses. If I were an MS shareholder I'd want them to forget about everything else and just keep milking the OS and give me all the money they save in pointless R&D.
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    01/09/09

    @formerly it takes a lot to laugh: They also have what amounts to a monopoly in office software. And yeah, they "forced" that - they used to have real competition there (remember WordPerfect?). They get more money from Office than they do from Windows these days. So it can be done, and the payoff can be enormous. One success out of 20 is probably more than worth it for them.
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