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06/09/09
First, I'd hit that in the face. Then, I'd hit that in the face again. Then, I'd follow up with a couple of body blows before tackling him to the ground.
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Can you even imagine something like that happening in this here "free" country?
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And every other one that causes my Steve Jobs = Cthulhu post to outrank my "Britney Spears Sex Tape?" one.
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i have to say i don't understand the violent emotions apple seems to stir in the press. they make solid products with decent updates, and sell them at a premium. so?
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However, to explain the phenomenon that rightly puzzles you, I ask you first to consider the absolute foot-shooting idiocy of the majority of their competitors -- firms for whom "solid products" and "decent updates" are but unattainable mirages in a distant land of aspiration. Then consider the large portions of the press which have vested interests in not exposing the idiocy of those competitors -- or let's call them advertisers -- on a near-daily basis.
I agree that Apple does a decent job most of the time. But in their business, "a decent job" is a gold medal performance so dominating that the other competitors never even finish running their heats and instead just accuse each other of cheating all the time.
That is my theory on the violent emotions engendered by Apple and its product line.
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Let's say I want to buy an online issue of Italian Vogue, on my iPhone. Remember the interest and clamor over the all-black issue last year? Making it available digitally would have been pure profit. I realize exclusivity and rarity are treasured in mags like this, but they did go and do a second printing to try and meet demand- very rare. What I'd like:
-First, don't give me grief over international editions, Condè Nast.
-Let me port it to my iMac also, so I can see the glorious pictures large and at the highest quality.
-Throw in the next digital issue, free.
I would probably pay up to US $12 for something like that, low enough that i'd consider it decent but high enough for Condè Nast to still consider it luxury- for a digital replica that is. And if they don't , well that's US$0 they'll get from me.
Digital magazines will come for certain, but the gatekeepers still think they can charge the exact same price for the paper product. No, we'll need incentives, and after the production costs, making digital, portable versions of issues could be profitable with some bonuses. Throw people a bone, do yourselves a favour, get out of the ink-on-paper , physical-object mentality.
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Web pages are rendered painfully small on the iPhone. This is somewhat mediated by the zooming functionality, but scrolling left/right/up/down to read when zoomed in is inconvenient and taxing.
Someone has to come up with a better way to render long-form text on the iPhone in order for people - both young and old - to use it for extended periods of reading long-form text.
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I'll probably buy a book on my phone to try it out. Not a deep book, mind you; reading Kafka in train-trip spurts, whether on a phone or paper, is useless unless you're riding in from Canarsie. But why wouldn't I flip through the next Sedaris on my phone on the way to a meeting?
06/08/09
twitwitwitwitwiter, the site that tracks the downtime of the site that tracks the downtime of the site that tracks the downtime of the site that tracks the downtime of the site that tracks th downtime of twitter, is down, after exceeding it's previous record of 4 hits per hour.
Developers at the site concede that running the site on an old Windows NT home machine using Visual Basic as a development platform may not have been such a good idea after all.
The company is seeking another round of funding, hopefully in the vicinity of $6-7 hundred dollars to acquire newer hardware and software.
Truth or Consequences New Mexico used computer dealers are expecting a ripple effect in the local economy.
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