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- RE: Slick Cats - Snow Leopard is Here! [Appletell]subcorpus - those may be valid reasons if you need to leverage full 64-bit computing. The OpenCL and Grand Central improvements aren't as readily noticeable, since most apps will need to be rewritten or at least recompiled to leverage the technology. The speed improvements, enhanced navigation, and more free hard drive space really made the $29 pricetag irresistible (I'd pay $50 for some extra gigs on my internal HD!).
- RE: Apples and Tablets and Clouds [Appletell]stl - I don't disagree that there are thousands of possibilities for such a device. Sadly, there are also thousands of possibilities for an easily-upgradeable prosumer desktop tower. But do we see one in the product lineup? No, because Apple, as I said, is very good at targeting a market niche with pinpoint accuracy. To the exclusion, most often, of other products. Apple is not Sony - a product for every occasion. And look how each is faring during hard economic times.
- Great article on an extremely controversial issue. Palm makes an interesting case, but it is somewhat weak. The Blackberry Media Sync allows crackberry users to take their non-DRM music with them, using a custom interface to the open, standards-compliant iTunes Library XML file. Apple has gladly allowed this for years. What Palm is doing is reverse engineering, which may be illegal at worst, but is definitely in bad taste. It will be interesting to see if facts or raw emotions rule this debate (the whole Apple-is-the-new-monopoly argument).
- RE: MS Office 2008 SP2: The Upgrade Tango [Appletell]normanj, I quite agree. For my personal documents, iWork is absolutely my choice. I do a great deal of consulting work, however, which requires me to interface via Office (and the Import/Export into Pages and Numbers can be dicey with complex formatting), and I also interface with several SharePoint sites. So I was really interested in the Document Center app...not so interested now, just waiting for a real, working version!
- @Nikitas: Many thanks! Always nice to know somebody enjoys reading as much as I enjoy writing. And kudos on Vinikitas - vinterviews has made it into my bookmarks folder! @ Henno: I think the real problem that MS encounters with their CE devices is sprawl - the platforms are so varied that it is difficult to create a cohesive strategy (think about pinching an image on the iPhone and MacBook trackpad). Separate development tracks have led to incompatibilities like Zune Marketplace and XBOX Live. Converging the code base would definitely be easier, but would signal a major shift in backwards compatibility - maybe Steve Ballmer will be bold enough to lead that change? @Boca Boi: Wow! I know how you feel - I've got a Mac Plus from 1987 that still runs like a dream (albeit a very limited, pixelated, greyscale dream). Your mother's situation makes me want to see a follow-up to one of the Laptop Hunter ads showing the same users two years after purchase: is the computer still running as well as a Mac would, or does it need replacing (effectively doubling the cost of the computer)?
- RE: iPhone OS 3.0: Nice-to-Knows [Appletell]Antman - check your App Updates. Developers have had early version of 3.0, for a while, so there are a flurry of updates being made available now that the final version is available. Look especially for the "Tested with OS 3.0" moniker on apps. Gandharva - Are you noticing slow down on WiFi or on the cell network? There can be speed issues when you are on the cell network and attempting to multitask two data-intensive tasks (like sending an email and surfing). For general slow downs, make sure you power the phone down and back on again at least once a week. I've noticed this keeps me speeding along.
- RE: iPhone 3GS pricing - get over it already! [Appletell]Mike, I actually considered both options...but given that AT&T can't manage to get MMS up and running before "sometime this summer" do you really trust them to do complicated math on the order of prorating? As to your first option, when you upgrade, you are signing a new 2-year contract when you upgrade - but with that new contract and new phone comes a new subsidy that AT&T pays to Apple. AT&T still loses out on the subsidy they paid on your original iPhone 3G last year. Hence my point that it's a simple business decision.
- RE: Safari 4 beta for Windows: First impressions [Appletell]Anthony, I don't dislike the interface...I just liked the intelligent design principles that we enjoyed in the previous version. The performance is beyond reproach - I've found myself missing page loads, they go so quickly (nice perk on a super fast corporate network). I just don't know that all the interface tweaks were for the better - some seem to be getting in the way of how I work, rather than making it easier. As I said, it's still a beta, so we'll have to see!
