When did the original iPad arrive? April 3. And, the iPad 2? It began shipping on March 11. If you were a betting person with no special insider knowledge, when would you think Apple plans to ship their next-generation tablet? No, it doesn’t take a rocket science to reckon it.
I went to the Apple Store and all I got was this totally awesome (single color, tastefully plain) t-shirt! When I was a kid, you could either BE cool or you could be one of the few and proud to own at least one of the really cool concert t-shirts. The assumption being you were actually there to see, for example, ACDC open the US leg of their ‘Back in Black’ tour in Erie, PA on July 30, 1980. Well, concerts aren’t what they were, but Apple’s cooler than ever.
Apple’s CEO has been called callous, insensitive and even a serial sociopath. Now, he’s being accused changing Western culture and not for the better. People getting things wrong, becoming shallow and we have a perpetrator to to pin it on.
The timing of this just wrong. More than six years since the first affected products shipped and three years after the company first formally acknowledged and began fixing the problem in other countries, Apple is spreading the first generation iPod nano replacement program worldwide.
Life goes on. Halloween is a tradition at Steve Jobs’ Palo Alto home and this year was no different. Decorated with jack-lanterns, lights and swathed in dry ice fog and scary sounds, a gaggle of parents and kids queued Monday outside the house ahead of Trick or Treat’s 6:30pm start.
If you’re gonna flip flop, do it with gusto. Apparently, that’s the attitude taken by Forrester Research which has for years — credit for consistency — strongly advocated against Macs. Now, the enterprise consultant not only says Macs are good, they’re promoting digital diversity and have created an acronym to push the concept.
When you’re Steve Jobs, you get a seat right next to President Obama at dinner, just cuz. When you’re the president, you probably shouldn’t be surprised when Jobs gives you an iPad. But this kind of coziness among the well connected isn’t particularly surprising, especially given the shared admiration the two men have.
You can be a Mac user for years, decades even, and still not know it all. Case in point is this little trick for tweaking on the fly what background OS X Lion Launchpad displays when it is active. And, just because you also need to get real work done, too, I’ve tossed in links for a half dozen really useful OS X 10.7 tips and tricks.
There are geeky gifts — iPod keychain, snarky t-shirt, iMac fish tank — and then there’s this piece of CNC machined Aluminum awesomeness. Whereas the one hanging around Steve Jobs’ neck doesn’t need a battery, this glowing pendant will set your Mac loving loved one’s heart racing and make her the envy of everyone waiting in line at Starbucks.
If you made this stuff up, it wouldn’t be more ridiculous. How many steps does it take to set up — go ahead, take a guess — a Windows XP or Vista machine on McDonald’s free Wi-Fi? Even the most jaded Windows hater will be shocked at how profligate Redmond’s apologists really are.
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