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seriously, did your balls fall off or something?
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I have a song entitled "Battery Technology Needs to Catch Up" for $1.29 @ iTunes. It's also available on my album, "Usable Brightness from Needlessly Small Projectors will Consume Many Watts" for $14.99.
03/26/09
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Netbook with mini built in projector + VLC + USB drive = Portable Theatre
Well, you may need to pack some speakers which would make it a somewhat less portable theatre. Hmm... I'm going to again rely on your genius to figure this part out. And don't say headphones!
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03/17/09
Apple doesn't invent. They increment.
OOH now it's 12GB instead of 8GB?!?! (never mind the proprietary microchip in the headphone cable) All hail the supreme glossy gadget overlords, OMFG, OMFG, pantswetting extravaganza! Pshaw. There are no quantum leaps like this in apple design anymore. Just baby steps. Call me jaded. And for the record, yes, it would totally change my perspective on them as a company if they released a product like this, and I would love to buy it. It's totally lustable. I do own an iPhone. I guess I'm just lamenting the disparaging lack of innovation from the company that's supposed to be the masters. I feel like apple has become the thing they set out to destroy: instead of being the small, smart guy who comes up with creative ways of giving you what you want, they have evolved into a bloated corporate leviathan who TELLS you what you want, and then repackages the same product with one insignificant new improvement, coasting on their previous innovations and all the while charging an arm and a leg under the guise of being a "premium" product. But it's all shiny plastic from China, and I see through the BS. I hope more people do. Apple, you'll see me in your store again when you have a genuinely new idea again. Or when you release this dock/alarm/projector combo pictured here. Which will be never. Sigh. End rant.
03/17/09
And the original iPhone from only a few years ago was an incremental update from what?
Lots of companies do incremental updates with major new products every few years. Just because Apple has a small product line doesn't mean that they don't release new products periodically.
As for premium, you're neglecting the software side of things. It is the fusion between software and hardware that makes apple's products so desirable.
03/17/09
That their imperfections cause people like you to dismiss not just their imperfections but everything about them wholesale is part of that phenomenon.
03/17/09
It was an incremental update of the standard cellphone. It was slightly better than about half the dumbphones, but not quite as good as most smartphones, most of which still outstrip the iPhone even accounting for OS 3.0, which only adds a few features that other hardware has had all along.
It's a pretty package, sure, but "pretty" is just about all that Apple can throw on a product these days. They haven't developed anything new, and I don't see much else that puts them above competing products, just "on par" and more expensive. Considering that they are both a software- and hardware-based operation, I would think they'd work a little harder on developing new technologies to revolutionize the industry, rather then consistently stripping away basic functions, decreasing usability, and raising prices.
03/17/09
ah but an iPhone is a *delight* to use.
everything else i've touched felt more like a chore.
03/18/09
My current phone handles IMAP/POP3 email, photos, twitter, built-in messenger support (Yahoo, AIM, Live), appointments and contact lists, web browsing, GPS navigation, and has a ton of storage space in case I need to carry files with me. It's very fast, has a great keyboard and very simple navigation. It cost me $75, and my unlimited data and texting plan is pretty cheap, and I'm not under a contract.
It certainly is no iPhone, but then, it already does everything I need, and isn't missing anything. If anything I would consider the Pre, based on it's extensibility (and more powerful processor), over the iPhone, but only if it were available at reasonable cost on a network I'm comfortable with.
I'm not opposed to owning an iPhone, I just don't see anything it does (for me) that's extremely useful given the exorbitant cost. I see a lot of apps that are just fluff, and not that many which really account for the price vs. the very limited power, functionality and compatibility of the device itself.
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great point! that's thinkin' like an engineer!
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