iPhone/O2: We came, we saw, we stifled a yawn…

September 18, 2007 in apple, cellphone, cult-of-steve, hardware, iPhone, ipod

Big yawns all around with iPhone and O2’s announcement in the UK. Now I use a lot of Apple gear. I like the iMac and OSX and our army of MacBooks and I can even stomach the iPod/iTunes marriage/lock-in — but even this is a really bad deal or St Steve’s Reality Distortion Field™ is [...]

Apple improves its packaging… but for how long?

September 11, 2007 in apple, cult-of-steve, environment, hardware, ipod

(Author’s Note: While the rest of the world oohs and ahhs over the thinness of Apple’s new keyboards. I cannot really add more than a spiteful (and curmudgeonly) yawn, so I think I’ll review the bloody packaging instead… and why the hell not?)

Apple has gone a long way to improve its packaging. [...]

Is that a terabyte in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?

September 11, 2007 in apple, cult-of-steve, hardware, ipod

It strikes me as odd that people habitually pack 30, 40, 80Gb even 160Gb of entertainment data in their disk drive based iPods. As a former iPod Nano user (who was perfectly happy with a mere 8Gb of flash based RAM) I was used to picking up a new selection of songs every week or [...]