“They launch services that seem under-thought and over-engineered, like Google Wave and Buzz. Meanwhile, they’ve actually become worse at the thing you mean when you say “google.” For example, Paul Kedrosky tried to compare dishwashers, and found nothing but spam and gibberish”
Or just try simply searching for a hotel.
Put a fantastic director with great music and you get a brilliant film.
YouTube – IBM Centennial Film: They Were There – People who changed the way the world works.
“At a certain point, do you become so large and powerful that evil is unavoidable?”
I have one of these in a draw somewhere.
The hardware was fine. The software was so poor, I gave up watching TV!
Read the fucking HIG. – i didnt post for a while because i was setting up….
Sure this will be useful one day.
“Other benefits of being in the Mac App Store include the fact that we won’t need to spend time and energy developing our own update systems, web store shelves, licensing systems, anti-piracy measures, and other things like that.”
Pixelmator is a fantastic piece of software and it’s a fraction of the price of buying from Adobe. Adobe haven’t even turned for the fight.
This could be the start of something VERY big for them.
This is seriously funny.
“Human life becomes our priority.” Well, that’s reassuring.
OK, it’s here.
Apple – App Store – Buy, download, and install apps made for Mac.
I’m on the record as saying that this is a massive day for Apple. Today is the day that it becomes easier to buy software for a Mac than for any other platform.
The next few weeks will contain grumbles about developer contracts and prices but the result is that today Apple has the only platform that works from end-to-end. Life gets difficult for the competition starting today.
Here are my first impressions:
Overall, there are tactical issues to solve but when the strategy is so clearly right I think that they can afford to spend to the time getting this right.
“Whatever the collection of reasons, the iPad seems to be the first Apple product that corporate IT shops are looking at with their blinders off and the Macalope didn’t expect that.”
The Macalope Weekly: Wrong about the iPad | Tablets | MacUser | Macworld.
I think that this fundamentally misunderstands whats happening on the ground. In the mid-90s I remember PCs arriving in offices, purchased on the stationary budget and network cards for PCs on expenses.
Employees are buying and using iPads. IT departments are hating it, it’s just that they don’t have the choice.
