Air Necessities

So I was working super hard these last couple of days, so I could only keep half an eye on the Stevenote as it was happening (yay liveblogging). Digging the stuff, as usual. A few things that got me:


The new "Time Capsule", aka "Airport Really Extreme We Mean It This Time", aka "Apple iSAN":
Far cooler than you may think. Now you've got cheap network addressable backup. Rock. The Fuck. On. Are backups sexy? Well, no, but losing your data is decidedly the un-sexy. Losing your data gets you un-laid.

Macbook Air. Dayum, that is one sechsaaaayyy beast! It's also the laptop equivalent of the old G4 Cube. I loved the cube. The market didn't. Too expensive, too slow, and all those complaints about "cracks". At least the Air's battery can be replaced at an Apple Store for the cost of the battery ($129), labour is free. I'd get one, but the reality is that I need a higher resolution on the screen (and a real graphics card). I imagine the new Macbook Pros will have all the cool multi-touch stuff when they get refreshed.

New AppleTV/iTouch. So both these toys get upgrades, but the people who purchased an iTouch have to fork over $20 to get the software upgrade? Lame. This is as lame as when they charged $5 to "unlock" the 802.11n capabilities in the macbook and macbook pro (they crippled it in software, and held it for ransom. Folks who dual booted into Windows saw the hardware for what it *really* was, and bitched). Their response was "they had to charge, by law", and mentioning something about Sarbanes-Oxley. Whatever. That's history.

iTunes Store Rentals are kinda nickel-and-dimed. The tiered pricing structure is a bit annoying, but I am sure it will be popular. Tiered pricing is very un-Apple, but it is *very* "Big Content". I think Apple is seeing the writing on the wall, and noticing the bit of iTunes Store backlash. They can't make money if they have no content to sell. At the moment, Apple/iTunes doesn't have a publishing "label". I imagine this will be changing in the near future. One thing I don't understand; if you download a rental to your iPod, and then watch it, but never synch your iPod back to your computer, how does it know you've past the 24 hour point, and can no longer view it? Does iTunes "move" or artificially lock the file so if it's on an iPod, you can't watch it on your computer until you've re-docked? I should look into this.

Air Necessities

So I was working super hard these last couple of days, so I could only keep half an eye on the Stevenote as it was happening (yay liveblogging). Digging the stuff, as usual. A few things that got me:


The new "Time Capsule", aka "Airport Really Extreme We Mean It This Time", aka "Apple iSAN":
Far cooler than you may think. Now you've got cheap network addressable backup. Rock. The Fuck. On. Are backups sexy? Well, no, but losing your data is decidedly the un-sexy. Losing your data gets you un-laid.

Macbook Air. Dayum, that is one sechsaaaayyy beast! It's also the laptop equivalent of the old G4 Cube. I loved the cube. The market didn't. Too expensive, too slow, and all those complaints about "cracks". At least the Air's battery can be replaced at an Apple Store for the cost of the battery ($129), labour is free. I'd get one, but the reality is that I need a higher resolution on the screen (and a real graphics card). I imagine the new Macbook Pros will have all the cool multi-touch stuff when they get refreshed.

New AppleTV/iTouch. So both these toys get upgrades, but the people who purchased an iTouch have to fork over $20 to get the software upgrade? Lame. This is as lame as when they charged $5 to "unlock" the 802.11n capabilities in the macbook and macbook pro (they crippled it in software, and held it for ransom. Folks who dual booted into Windows saw the hardware for what it *really* was, and bitched). Their response was "they had to charge, by law", and mentioning something about Sarbanes-Oxley. Whatever. That's history.

iTunes Store Rentals are kinda nickel-and-dimed. The tiered pricing structure is a bit annoying, but I am sure it will be popular. Tiered pricing is very un-Apple, but it is *very* "Big Content". I think Apple is seeing the writing on the wall, and noticing the bit of iTunes Store backlash. They can't make money if they have no content to sell. At the moment, Apple/iTunes doesn't have a publishing "label". I imagine this will be changing in the near future. One thing I don't understand; if you download a rental to your iPod, and then watch it, but never synch your iPod back to your computer, how does it know you've past the 24 hour point, and can no longer view it? Does iTunes "move" or artificially lock the file so if it's on an iPod, you can't watch it on your computer until you've re-docked? I should look into this.

More MoMa

Look who's mentioned in Design Interact:

http://www.designinteract.com/sow/

Yeah, that'd be me =)

(egoboo)

More MoMa

Look who's mentioned in Design Interact:

http://www.designinteract.com/sow/

Yeah, that'd be me =)

(egoboo)

Hucka Not to Be

Did anyone catch some of this guy's total and complete insanity in Michigan the other day?

I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution. But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. That’s what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than to try to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the family.

Read more here: David Badash's Blog

Hucka Not to Be

Did anyone catch some of this guy's total and complete insanity in Michigan the other day?

I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution. But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. That’s what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than to try to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the family.

Read more here: David Badash's Blog

Air Necessities

Mirrored from Localtype.

Comments are open over there. Use your LJ ID to reply

So I was working super hard these last couple of days, so I could only keep half an eye on the Macworld Stevenote as it was happening. Digging the stuff, as usual. A few things that got me:

The new Time Capsule, aka “Airport Really Extreme We Mean It This Time”, aka “Apple iSAN”:
Far cooler than you may think. Now you’ve got cheap network addressable backup. Rock. The Fuck. On. Are backups sexy? Well, no, but losing your data is decidedly the un-sexy. Losing your data gets you un-laid.

MacBook Air. Dayum, that is one sechsaaaayyy beast! It’s also the laptop equivalent of the old G4 Cube. I loved the cube. The market didn’t. Too expensive, too slow, and all those complaints about “cracks”. At least the Air’s battery can be replaced at an Apple Store for the cost of the battery ($129), labour is free. I’d get one, but the reality is that I need a higher resolution on the screen (and a real graphics card). I imagine the new Macbook Pros will have all the cool multi-touch stuff when they get refreshed.

New Apple TV/iPod touch. So both these toys get upgrades, but the people who purchased an iTouch have to fork over $20 to get the software upgrade? Lame. This is as lame as when they charged $5 to “unlock” the 802.11n capabilities in the macbook and macbook pro (they crippled it in software, and held it for ransom. Folks who dual booted into Windows saw the hardware for what it really was, and bitched). Their response was “they had to charge, by law”, and mentioning something about Sarbanes-Oxley. Whatever. That’s history. I still think the Apple TV should have a Wiimote, rather than the push-push-push button controller.

iTunes Store Movie Rentals are kinda nickel-and-dimed. The tiered pricing structure is a bit annoying, but I am sure it will be popular. Tiered pricing is very un-Apple, but it is very “Big Content”. I think Apple is seeing the writing on the wall, and noticing the bit of iTunes Store backlash. They can’t make money if they have no content to sell. At the moment, Apple/iTunes doesn’t have a publishing “label”. I imagine this will be changing in the near future. One thing I don’t understand; if you download a rental to your iPod, and then watch it, but never synch your iPod back to your computer, how does it know you’ve past the 24 hour point, and can no longer view it? Does iTunes “move” or artificially lock the file so if it’s on an iPod, you can’t watch it on your computer until you’ve re-docked? I should look into this.