NAB marketing 101… link correctly.
Only then do you say, “Okay. This sounds interesting enough for me to stop what I am doing and read this one little tidbit of information about this one thing.” What happens next is exactly what should not. Read More… Apple Delivers. Or maybe not.
Today was the day, for all those who have been clamoring for years for more choice and for more options in the number of desktop products, Today was the day that Apple delivered not one, but two models. Not new but the same models they already had, and have had for more than four long years. (equivalent to 20 human years) Many expected, hoped, pleaded that Apple would finally add a mid-size machine into the center of their computer product line. Read More… Apple says: Firewire be gone!
No longer hamstrung by the Intel integrated graphics chipsets, this powerful new Mac could be had for just $1299… but there’s one BIG problem… Read More… Apple MobileMess
The worst part is, however, the cold shoulder that Apple gives to those who get screwed. Read More… One step forward - two steps back.
Remember iSync? Back when Palm dominated the PDA world, and Apple had zero inkling of their own phone hardware, they got the bright idea to make hooks in the software to sync phone numbers, addresses, calendars, notes and more between Apple computers (remember those?) and phones and PDAs from other companies. Read More… P2 is the MOST SECURE…
For example, this is a quote by a Panny rep on a video mailing list:
Yuri’s Night
Exactly 20 years later, the United States embarked on a new era in spaceflight with the inaugural launch of a new type of spaceship — the Space Shuttle. When the next 20-year point arrived, a new space milestone by connected thousands of people around the world to celebrate the past. That event was Yuri’s Night. It continues to bring the excitement, passion and promise of space travel closer to people of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds. Read More… Illuminating Laptops - still the missing feature.
ROCK (tech) HARD PLACE. Yea.
I was corresponding with a fellow videographer who works for a government video department. He tried to explain the troubles he faces with regard to new gear purchases. It’s beyond trying to decide between P2 or SxS. It’s beyond tape or flash media. It’s, well, let’s just say it basically covers the last 20 years of video production- every single day. Open letter to Steve Jobs. Re: Mac Mini Pro.
The MacBook Air is cute. The iMacs are cute. You see, I’m one of those “Pros” that you target your $1300 software to… |
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The barrage of NAB press release e-mails is raining down. So much so that, if you’re busy with projects, like I am, you dismiss most of them unless something really interesting catches your eye. 
Today, Apple has again demonstrated their incomparable ability to not listen to their customers– the customers that purchase their computing products.
As I watched Apple revise the MacBook line with graphics performance that trounces the integrated Intel graphics, I began to think that the MacBook could well be the mythical mid-range desktop machine we’ve been waiting for- dual core, powerful graphics chipset capable of Dual-link DVI output, all the ports on the “back” & optical drive on the front… Plus the nifty ability to pick it up and take it with you!
This week, Tech pundit David Pogue make some excellent points about Apple’s new endeavor to provide Microsoft “Exchange for the rest of us” with Apple’s new MobileMe service. Not only did they give former .Mac subscribers the option to NOT take part in this new service and keep other service that are no longer offered, but Apple has had interminable problems with the new service.
As reported by AppleInsider, Apple’s iPhone 2.0 software enables secure erasure of your personal data, however, it also moves Apple away from iSync compatibility and into their own little cloud of interoperability.
It really bothers me when corporate marketing drones get so caught up in their own chest-thumping that they fail to recognize the 
Human Spaceflight became a reality 45 years ago with the launch of Vostok 1. The capsule carried Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who became the first human to leave the bounds of Earth and enter outer space.
An interesting image on 
The proverbial “between a rock and a hard place” is basically a tough place to be. 
Dear Steve,