Apple iPod and iPhone News for March-26-08
John C. Dvorak: The iPhone Is No Desktop
People are willing to make a device that you can drop in the toilet or leave in a taxi cab the next desktop computing platform. Ridiculous.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2278816,00.asp
Alt Text: Perils of Joining the iPod Nation
‘I feel a little odd about buying anything labeled classic, though. In marketing, classic is a way of making timidity and obstinacy sound cutting-edge. You’re on the avant-garde forefront of resisting change! You hated anything new before hating anything new was trendy!’
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/alttext/2008/03/alttext_0326
Steve Jobs’ Music Poster Boy Reports iTunes Probs
John Mayer contacted Apple about a problem with iTunes using the bug reporting tool which appears after a crash. Having sent my own share of bug reports, from neutral to humorous to sarcastic to plain mad-I’m-going-to-kill-you-all-with-a-spoon, I find his diatribe rather charming and candid:
http://gizmodo.com/371671/steve-jobs-music-poster-boy-reports-itunes-problem-wonders-if-apple-spies-him
MacBook Air Prompts New TSA Screening Procedures (Really!)
You might recall a couple of weeks ago, a dude got hassled by airport security because they couldn’t make sense of his MacBook Air. Turns out, it actually does look “very different” than 99 percent of the notebooks they’re used to seeing under the scanner, in a way that would “pique some interest” of security personnel.
http://gizmodo.com/371640/new-airport-screening-procedure-for-macbook-air-no-really