Chris Stephenson, GM of Global Marketing for Zune, when comparing Apple’s iPod to Microsoft’s Zune, says,
“We’re not the hardware company they are,” he said, laughing. “But then again, they’re not the software company that we are.”
I wonder why he was laughing when he said that.
The idea that Apple has screwed over or even somehow been rude to the grassroots iPhone developer community is absurd. Apple never asked for nor encouraged iPhone software development, and the fact that it happened anyway put Apple under zero obligation to support it.
There’s only one way to pressure Apple into opening up iPhone development, and it isn’t by developing underground iPhone apps. It’s by not buying iPhones. Money talks, and right now, there doesn’t seem to be a shortage of people willing to give Apple money in exchange for a completely closed iPhone.
Yeah, what he said.
They make best computer hardware/OS combination in the world. Always have. A Macbook Pro running OS X is wonderful.
Every iPod I’ve owned has worked flawlessly from day one. Easy, and no problems, ever. I’ve had 6 of them and all but the one I lost is still in use.
The iTunes Music Store makes finding and legally downloading music easier than stealing it, DRM or no. My experience has been nearly flawless. All of my music still plays just fine.
The AppleTV is the simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work. I could’ve bought one of a dozen devices for managing and streaming movies and music. The AppleTV was up and streaming my stuff in 10 minutes. Gorgeous and easy.
My stock, locked iPhone is a beatiful piece of work. I would like it to do more, but I don’t need it to.
The Apple Store. I walk into an Apple Store and someone who knows what they’re talking about helps me. Every time, even when I’m complaining about something.
Steve Jobs keynotes. C’mon, what other corporate head does this better? No distortion field necessary.
I used the word “fanboy.” Wikipedia says: “Fanboys remain loyal to their particular obsession, disregarding any factors (often including logic) that differ from their point of view.”
In that case I’ve used the term incorrectly. When a company or product comes along and improves my experience significantly over that which Apple continues to deliver, I’ll switch in a heartbeat. Until then, I’m all Apple’s.
P.S. $0.99 to make a ringtone from a song I’ve already purchased is bullshit. There, see? And you thought I was just another fanboy.
I was trying to plan my schedule for Adobe Max next week using their nifty Flex app. The app is okay, but actually scheduling sessions was nearly impossible. I first spent 20 minutes organizing things, then closed the window. Every modern calendar app, especially fancy new RIAs like this one, save your changes automatically. Nope. Start over.
Trying to add a session caused a conflict with an existing one. Here’s the dialog telling me what to do about it…
I still don’t know which option I should pick. Guess I’ll just wait until I get there. I’ll bet it’ll be much more fun that way.
“New Layer from iSight”. Yep, drop a new layer into an image right from your iSight. Every fancy new image editing app includes this as if someone actually asked for it. Wasn’t me.
If I were Steve Jobs (and I’m not), I would lose a bit of sleep tonight. The Amazon MP3 store is awesome. Cheaper, almost as easy as iTunes and all DRM-free. It helps that I love Amazon already anyway. Bought 3 6 albums so far. The nice and simple downloader app dropped them right into iTunes for me. Unless something bad happens, I go there first from now on.
I’m pretty sure I hate everything Bryan Taylor says here about Rails, Ruby, Java, Python, etc. Everything. It’s worth reading anyway, because I think he has a point. But can we all stop using the word Fanboy already?
For a time, I thought Facebook would continue to be useful. Indefinitely. With Facebook Apps opening the door to pretty much anything and everyone who’s anyone signing up, the sky was the limit. As it turns out Facebook is boring. This is what I get…
Bob and Fred are now Friends. Jimmy added the I’m Useless App. You’re a Zombie! Janet is single. Compelling stuff, that.
Maybe I’m just in a bad mood. Okay, no “maybe” about it, but I haven’t had anything interesting come through Facebook in weeks. I’d like us all to leave Facebook out of the loop and go back to having blogs and feed readers. That seemed to work pretty well.
Yes I know, it might be that my friends are boring. But I have friends on Twitter too and that interaction is much more interesting.
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I’ve removed my rant about Scoble’s view of Ansel Adams. I agree with my original sentiment, but the way I said it made me sound like one of those whiny, blog-posting douche-bags that I despise so much. Think, then write, Jack.
I use Safari for day to day browsing. The only thing I miss about Firefox is the ability to load it up with useful extensions. Safari does have a few nifty add-ons available though. One of those is Concierge.
Concierge adds simple drawer to Safari that can be used to manage bookmarks, collect links or simple text snippets (called notes.) It also shows your browsing history nicely collected by date and/or domain.
I use the Scratchpad tab instead of Del.icio.us for saving links to sites I run across and want to find later. All three tabs, Scratchpad, Bookmarks, and History are quickly searchable has well. It’s handy.
