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The iPhone is the computer I use the most now day in and day out.
More quotables:
"If a media and web-centric computer were being designed today with no thought to what the computing norms of the past were, it would be a tablet."
"The iPhone *is* a tablet computer, just smaller."
Randall, baby. we’ve got a hit on our hands. We’ve got the smartphone equivalent of Meet the Beatles. It’s not like that album was the first rock album ever. It’s not like nobody ever made a band with some guitars and drums before. But it was radical. It was new. They took old forms and made them new. Same with us. We didn’t invent the smartphone or the PDA or the music player or the Web browser. We just made them better. We made them new. We changed the fucking world, Randall.
Fake, foul-mouthed and full of good advice.
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Mark my words, when Apple ships its tablet or some other device that can be used for the serious reading of books, people will read again.
Mike Elgan is so often true, he's like a geek preacher of the gospel of tech.
Here, he lists four things you need to know, to understand Apple.
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A beautiful, beautiful tvc. Absolutely evocative shots cutting in one after another.
Then the last shot reveals that they're selling a MacBook knock-off.
It's not, of course. It's a Sony Vaio. I have great respect for Vaio. (On a related note, I think the Vaio logo rationale makes it one of the most amazing logos around.) If you were to put a gun to my head and yell, "Buy a Windows machine! Buy it! Buy it now!" I'd buy a Vaio. (Contrary to what you might have heard, I won't die for Apple.)
Why then did its designers see fit to take design cues from MacBook and MacBook Pro? It doesn't do justice to Vaio, to this tvc, to humanity, to the divinity of art.
Stop the insanity. Invent something new.
On the other hand, it is crazily difficult to improve on minimalist designs. (Perhaps that's the genius of Apple design.) But it's still possible to differentiate. Remember when all computers were beige boxes? Remember what Apple did with the juicy, fruity iMacs?
("Yum.")
They look gaudy in hindsight, but they *differentiated*. They *innovated*. They *created*.
Now, non-Apple designers, please, go do the same. It's been 11 years since the iMac, after all.
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A similar rant on HP:
http://alphalim.me/pix-hp-confirms-it-i-scream-you-scream-we-all
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... someone who WON'T buy it just 'cause it's Apple.
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Imge by Fr3d.org via Flickr
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For two years I have been without a handheld computer, believing that my trusty Nokia 6300 with it's WAP and Java would suffice. It didn't.
After two years since I retired my beautiful Handspring Visor Edge, I have come to realise that nothing beats having ALL your data at hand, in searchable, randomly accessible form.
Pen and paper are awesome for right-brain stuff, but for your data, nothing beats a computer in your hand.
With the cloud and an awesome browser, Nokia could have been the leader, as Scoble pointed out. Alas for Nokia. Alas for Palm.
Sent from my iPhone
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It's like Undo. For. your. whole. freakin'. machine.
Don't wait.
If you don't have an external hard drive, partition your internal into 2 logical drives.
Then go and get an external.
I waited and got corruption on my internal, and am now copying things out by hand. It's slow, but at least my data's not lost.
Don't wait.
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