Apple Full of Hot Air
Dear Apple
Fans,
Say
it ain’t so. I love Apple for all that it represents and what it
doesn’t represent. However, over the last few years, due to the
popularity of the iPod family and iTouch, iRape, iFollow, iSheep.
Well you know the iZombies that just do what the Godzealous like
dear Mr. Jobs says. There is going to be wrath, and it’s going to
come from sensible people who will wake up one day and see that the
price value proposition is inflated and that there will be no
support level. I have a love hate relationship with AAPL. I let
them rape me over and over again. I don’t enjoy it as much as I
used too anymore. Please let HTC, Nintendo, SONY, Microsoft come to
my rescue please.
I got an iPod touch for Christmas and it’s amazing. I love it in
many way, except for the fact that Apple put some handicap on the
damn thing and made it took out some of the functionalities. Mail,
Maps, Weather, Notes, and Stocks were not included. Guess what 20
days later on January 15, 2008. They are releasing a new
application package and selling it for $20. Say what? I smell a
lawsuit coming. Seriously this is just taking advantage of the poor
consumer to the extreme. Guess what? It’s actions like this that
actually justifies the use of consumer piracy. I bought the
hardware, so I should be able to maximize the capabilities of my
set of hardware. Jailbreak the iPodtouch and make it yours. Besides
once you Jailbreak it, you can
install so many more software anyway. It’s even better than an
iPhone with the VOIP software hack.
Another amazing
product that was launched today what the MacBook Air. It’s so heavy
and ugly, and slow, and must have, and cheap. Who would want one
anyway for $3000.00? Again, Apple has come out with a new product
innovation, they are first to market, and first into the mind of
the consumer. There’s nothing we can do now as customer, but get
sucked into their marketing machine. I do hope that Dell, HP, SONY,
SamSung can learn from this, and fire up their engine as well. The
problem though, it doesn’t matter what new innovation comes out of
this, APPLE will always receive the credit. It’s a sick sick world
this marketing game. I think they should hire me as a marketing
consultant. I’ll be able to give Apple some salt in their eyes. You
just have to reposition APPLE as overzealous, innovative like
Microsoft, too simple for the changing taste of consumers. And this
whole thin and light? Who the heck ever said that we wanted it?
Does it come too a point when it’s too light and too thin? Isn’t
there a point where it isn’t ergonomic anymore? If I were SONY or
HP, I would commission an ergonomic study right now to show that
there has to be a weight and balance factor. Take the cards back
from Apple, why are they always in control. Come on
people!
Microsoft Service Pack 3
Microsoft have
just released Windows XP Service Pack 3 last night on Tuesday Dec
18, 2007. Go the the Microsoft Download or just click on this
link here. The download
file is about 336.1 MB. This is the last and final installation of
the XP update, which is awesome since XP has been out for about 6
year now. As usual the install is taking over an hour, I can never
understand why software updates takes so long on Microsoft Windows
XP and so fast on MAC OS. Waiting sucks because it means that I’m
being unproductive.
So yeah, everyone should update so that you are working in a more secure environment. Maybe it will even make the computer run faster as well. I don’t know though, I just hope that it doesn’t crash on me.
Microsoft Office 2008 Beta Mac OS
One feature that I love
so much is the SmartArt Graphics, that allows for simple process,
cycle, relationship graphics to be easily manipulated and add to
any of the Office Suite documents. This alone is worth the
upgrades, because it saves so much time and drama. I have been
using it almost daily to add to my word documents, and
presentations.One things that still bugs me with the new Office 2008 Beta is that it still doesn’t have a great way to manage all of the floating docks. There’s still too much object toolbars everywhere. I don’t know why they just didn’t port the ribbon from XP Office 2007. That would be solved so much problems and increase productive for MAC users as well. The integration of the Gallery MAC OS and XP Ribbon approach would have produced a powerful killer must have app! Maybe we’ll see that on later upgrades for Office MAC OS.
If you are interested in hearing about the development and potentail bonus that will make it to the retail version that will be coming out sometime next year. Keep checking the developement blog over at MSDN.
