Logo Wars

Come on Apple Corp, drop this foolishness. Not only is it clearly different in shape and color, it looks like it was designed in the 21st century. That green sour apple hasn't changed since I bought my first Beatles album almost 35 years ago. Clearly a company that is trying to be opportunistic and take a shot at a successful company. They wish they could sell a fraction of the music Apple has. Apple is now the hot target. They will win this one but there will be more to come. And lawyers will make lots of money. Cheers!

Avie Tevanian leaving Apple!

I dreaded the day I would hear this, and today is the day! Can Apple continue to innovate OSX as it has without this genius at the helm? What are your thoughts?

NY Times Headline - Windows is so slow - but why?

Poor Bill, he looks like he's at a total loss to explain why Windows XP has 35 million lines of code and Windows Vista has stalled again. When will all the lemmings wake up.

"Last week, in the latest setback, Microsoft conceded that Vista would not be ready for consumers until January, missing the holiday sales season, to the chagrin of personal computer makers and electronics retailers — and those computer users eager to move up from Windows XP, a five-year-old product.

In those five years, Apple Computer has turned out four new versions of its Macintosh operating system, beating Microsoft to market with features that will be in Vista, like desktop search, advanced 3-D graphics and "widgets," an array of small, single-purpose programs like news tickers, traffic reports and weather maps."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/technology/27soft.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

My New iMac!!

Well Gentlemen, I had to wait until the right moment to share with you one of the great joys we experience in life. For my 40th birthday, my wonderful wife got me a new 20 inch iMac core duo maxed out with ram. It was truly a dream come true, only matched by the Titanium Powerbook (which is still going strong, by the way!). I needed time to fully absorb the implications, and to soak in the glory of the moment. There can be no doubt that this is indeed a turning point in our lives, much as the Titanium Powerbook forever changed our lives. And gentelemen, this machine is indeed a screamer!!! I do realize this is a consumer machine, and this drives home the reality that when Apple releases the professional towers, they will go beyond even the high standards Apple has set up to now. The future is blazing hot, men!!

Le French shutdowne du Applee

What do you all think about the French government forcing Apple to share it's music file format with all the competition? Personlly I am a bit divided on the issue. Having been on the other side of the fence with Microsoft and how they have stiffled competition. But I believe it is different in that Microsoft went to some extreme measures to cut out competition. Purposefully making some programs not work properly on their system, such as Netscape. Paying other companies to file lawsuits against there competitiors so that MS name is not attached. Once a monopoly starts to bully and abuse the competitors then it may be time for some sort of divestiture, to stimulate competition once again. But with the iPod, Apple does allow for non copy protected songs to be played on them so they are not locking others out completely. Of course no music company will sell there music without copy protection. If people are really that unhappy with iTunes and the iPod then they can burn all of there songs to a CD and reload them on a MS based music player. So I don't know if the law change would truly apply to Apple. There is some quality loss though. I have done it myself and have not noticed much difference but if you compress the file again to MP3 then it sounds like a loss of quality. I suppose Apple could just pull completely out of France, and then call their iPods, FreedomPods. But the market is big, the second biggest in Europe, and they could just have French iPods with a new open copy protection scheme that only works on iPods made for the French.

Check out my Dashboard!

I am trying a new widget that allows me to post a blog from the veritable convenience of my Dashboard. Was I successful?

Indeed I was! Now that's a cool widget – blogging to Macnight without bothering with a browser. Browsers are soooo 1990's!

New ROKR Phone

Saw this pic of the new ROKR and this info:

*Dedicated music player buttons on the side (Play/Pause, Skip Forward/Backward and Hold) and front
*Full stereo audio via industry standard 3.5mm headset jack eliminating the need for adaptors
*Store over 500 songs on 2 GB optional hot swappable SD mass storage memory card
*Transfer music seamlessly through USB 2.0 high-speed connectivity
*Integrated 1.3-megapixel camera with flash and video capture and playback (15fps)
*Built in FM radio with up to 30 presets
*Integrated Bluetooth wireless technology for hands-free connectivity with compatible *Bluetooth-enabled devices
*Motorola's SCREEN3 technology solution featuring zero-click access to news, sports, entertainment, and other premium content
*WAP 2.0 compliant Opera browser with GPRS Class 10 for high-speed data transmission

-Le

Reactions...

...to the announcements yesterday, Gents?

-Le