I laughed, but not nearly as much as for the first TV commercial.
Most everybody hates this one … except for Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins.
Category: Apple
iPod Touch, microphone headphones
Note to self: buy in October.
Apple In-Ear Headphones with Remote and Mic – Apple
On Wednesday Apple updated their iPod lineup:
Touch Changes: Minor
The iPod Touch expectedly gets a dramatic price drop that brings it more in line with the iPhone 3G’s pricing, if you want to pay a slightly higher price for a multimedia player that doesn’t have phone capability. The 8GB iPod Touch will sell for $229 ($30 more than a comparable iPhone 3G), while the 16GB model will sell for $299–which means you’ll get double the memory for the price of the old 8GB iPod Touch.
The design of the new iPod Touch remains similar to before, but like the Nano, the Touch thins down compared with its predecessor. The chassis remains contoured stainless steel. The biggest hardware additions: Integrated volume controls on the side, and a built-in speaker (similar to what’s on the iPhone 3G) for casual listening. Jobs said the volume controls were the number one requested feature for the iPod Touch. Also now integrated: Nike + iPod software and receiver; now, you only need to buy the Nike+iPod transmitter for your shoe, and don’t need the extra receiver dongle, as before.
In spite of its thinner profile, the Touch’s battery life is rated for an impressive 36 hours for music, and six hours for video.
The compelling new feature for me is an easy way to leave myself voice notes (when I get the odd flash of brilliance).
The iPhone is OUT for me now.
Seinfeld uses a PC ??
Who’s going to buy that?
Jerry had a Mac in his apartment for the entire TV series.
Jerry Seinfeld was part of the old Think Different Apple advertising campaign.
Microsoft is going to start a new US$300 million advertising blitz to try to regain some of the street credibility they have been losing over all these years. The campaign is built around the idea that “Windows breaks down barriers that prevent people and ideas from connecting.” Sounds like corporate PR-puffing, but there’s a twist: it will star Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld.
Seinfeld will get US$10 million to star in the presumably funny commercials, which is quite a good chunk of cash compared to the low fare that John Hodgman (Mr. PC) and Justin Long (Mr. Please someone slap that guy) must be getting for their long series of TV, internet and print ads. Let’s hope they are better than the Apple ones. …
This is a brave gamble. Certain to grab attention. But will it backfire on Microsoft?
The campaign starts Sept. 4th.
why I don’t need an iPhone
I’m jealous of geekier-than-thou friends like Garth who are getting a new iPhone.
But since I carry a laptop everywhere I go, I don’t need one.
Apple bungles iPhone 2 launch
Many of Apple’s biggest fans are “disgusted” with the many problems with last week’s introduction of the latest Jesus Phone
Steve must be furious.
On the other hand, Apple sold over 1 million iPhone 3Gs. And handled over 10 million downloads from App store.
Both way over expectation.
Best advice is to update an iTouch or iPhone 1 with the new firmware. Skip the iPhone 2 unless you really need one and live in a big American city.
iPhone in Canada too expensive
I’m willing to pay $100 (tax in) for TRUE “unlimited” North American phone and web.
Rogers is not offering that.
What’s wrong with Rogers’ rate plan?
For one thing, it comes with a mandatory 3-year contract. In the U.K., O2 offers an-18 month contract and throws in the iPhone for free. And although both AT&T (T) and Rogers offer calling, data and text messaging for $75 a month, Rogers at that price gives Canadians a third less calling time, half as many text messages, and puts a 750 MB cap on 3G data usage — with steep fees for users who go over their monthly limit.
It’s this last element that has struck Canadian Apple fans as most unreasonable. One of the features that makes the iPhone so popular is how effortless it makes websurfing and multimedia downloads — activities that can quickly rack up the megabytes. That’s why heavy users usually pay extra for unlimited data usage.
Rogers claims that its top data plan — 2 GB per month for $115 — is enough to download 16,000 webpages. But users point out that a single Facebook page can account for 1.2 MB, which reduces browsing from 16,000 pages per month to 1,600.
Count me out when the phone debuts July 11th.
download Firefox 3 Tuesday June 17th
Join us in our mission to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours!
…now is your chance to change that! Help set a Guinness World Record …
Firefox 2 for Mac used too much memory. I prefer Opera 9.5.
But Firefox 3 is getting rave reviews on both Mac and Windows. It’s one of the great examples where Open Source software is better than proprietary software, including Internet Explorer and Safari.
iPhone in Canada – should I get one?
to launch on Fido, Rogers
… the new iPhone 3G will be available for both Fido and its parent company Rogers Wireless in the country. The news expands on the previous Rogers-only announcement and will let users of either service buy the phone when it becomes available in Canada on July 11th. Rogers says it will sell the phone at the same $199 (8GB) and $299 (16GB) prices as in the US, but will require a longer three-year contract common to providers in the territory.
Full plan pricing and costs for the phone with shorter plans or contract-free service are unavailable. Rogers doesn’t currently offer an unlimited smartphone data plan and instead relies on a $7 unlimited web browsing plan for most of its devices, including a handful of smartphone-class devices such as the Nokia N95 8GB. These plans typically charge a per-kilobyte rate for data used outside of the browser itself or through specially-authorized applications, though Rogers hasn’t said whether these rules will apply to Apple’s product.
Canada has the most expensive mobile phone packages in the world. I’m hoping Steve Jobs puts the screws to Rogers to be close in price to the rest of the world.
Otherwise … will have to jailbreak one.
Solitaire the most popular PC software
… According to Microsoft developer-blogger Raymond Chen, the company’s usability research crew discovered that the three most-played computer games (solitaire or something else, Microsoft or otherwise, preloaded or user-installed) are, in order … Spider Solitaire, Klondike Solitaire, and FreeCell.
Solitaire-y Confinement
Why we can’t stop playing a computerized card game.
Those come preinstalled on every Windows PC.
Snooty Apple only comes with Chess.
Rick McCharles 