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Saying goodbye to my old iPod nano… It’s getting sent back to Apple this week for the recall. Poor little guy! Even though it’s unlikely I would really use it again, I’ll still miss having it in my gadget collection. 
January 29, 2012 | Categories: Apple, gadgets, Ink Blog, iPod nano, Tech | Tags: apple, gadgets, inkblog, nostalgia, personal, tech | Leave A Comment »
And I mean literally across the way from the Apple Store:
We were amused by the sight.
When the news first came out that Microsoft was going to make their own retail stores, I really didn’t care about it. I wasn’t interested in any of their latest products then, except maybe the Xbox 360 and the Zune, sort of. I had already moved on from a Tablet PC to a unibody aluminum MacBook (which I’m still using now). But now, Windows 8 devices, Windows Phone phones, and even some of the upcoming Ultrabooks have me pretty eager to see what they’ll have to offer at the Microsoft Store. I’ll at least enjoy being able to play around with some Windows Phone phones and Windows 8 tablets at a venue nicer than Fry’s. I like going to a Sony Style store to check out all Sony’s products, so I expect the Microsoft Store will be a similar experience.
Seeing some of the
Windows 8 demos at IDF has really gotten me eager to see whether it finally delivers on the promise that Tablet PCs and UMPCs tried to deliver on years ago. I like that Windows 8 finally seems to take touch input seriously. And the demos look damn slick. Of course, demos can be tightly controlled to look slick, so I reserve final judgment for when the real products are out. But the concepts behind Windows 8 seem quite solid. I’ll enjoy watching this next phase of Microsoft and Apple in competition.
Though I think it’s kind of lame that the banner announcing the Microsoft Store definitely looks Apple-like, even the way the employees are dressed, with their name tags on lanyards like Apple Store employees. *shaking my head*
September 17, 2011 | Categories: Apple, Microsoft | Leave A Comment »
While it wasn't a super-exciting announcement, there were quite a few interesting things revealed during Apple's
Back to the Mac event yesterday morning. One thing that's getting lots of press is the next generation of MacBook Air. I have always admired the Air, but could never justify purchasing one since it was quite expensive for what you got. Sure, it was sexy, sleek, and thin, but the hardware specs were kind of weak. Since I'm not made of money, I wouldn't have been able to afford getting a MacBook Air as a supplement to a MacBook or MacBook Pro. So I admired it from afar, and for a while the iPad completely wiped the MacBook Air off my wishlist, but with the new 11" and 13" versions out, plus the announcement of iLife '11 and OS X Lion, the Air is back on my radar.
Steve Jobs said that multi-touch wouldn't be added to Macs via a touchscreen. It's too awkward to use touch on a vertical surface, and works much better on horizontal surfaces like touchpads and the Magic Mouse. I agree with this. When I used convertible Tablet PCs, I would flip them around to slate mode whenever I wanted to interact with the touchscreen (or active digitizer) for an extended period of time. The hinges on my convertible TPCs weren't sturdy enough to hold the screen steady when touching or inking on them, and it did feel unnatural to interact with a touchscreen this way. (I never really liked writing on chalkboards or whiteboards, either, so YMMV.
) Message received: no touchscreen Mac notebooks. But then I got to thinking a convertible MacBook Air would be an awesome way of getting around this problem. You'd get a full-featured OS X notebook in an iPad-esque form factor when it's in slate mode. Flip the screen around to notebook mode for times you need a keyboard, or just want to work in "notebook mode". It would be awesome to use desktop-level apps like Photoshop, iPhoto, or iMovie in slate mode. We already know from the iPhone and iPad that people are used to using more complex photo, drawing, and music apps via touchscreen, so it would be a natural transition. I know it's the Tablet PC enthusiast in me talking, but I don't think it's a completely wacky idea for a Mac product.
More realistically, I don't think it's taking a big leap to predict we'll be seeing touchscreen Mac devices. They'll just likely be in a slate form factor, a la iOS devices. With OS X Lion getting more multi-touch support, and iLife apps adopting better full-screen modes, it seems that touchscreen Macs that act a lot like iOS devices are inevitable. For most users who want the ease of use of the iPad 95% of the time, but still need desktop-level apps for the other 5%, a "hybrid" Mac device would be ideal. If Apple doesn't want to do a convertible notebook, you can still connect BT keyboards or keyboard docks, and use external monitors, like a lot of people already do with their MacBooks.
I also don't think it's a big leap to say OS X could likely merge completely with iOS to become one OS for mobile and desktop devices. Instead of a dual-boot solution where a device is running something like Windows 7 and Android, future Macs and iPhones/iPads could just run an optimized OS X that adapts to the situation, depending on what the user is doing, what apps are being used, etc. Engineers much smarter than I am can work out the details on how to do this.
There might not need to be so much switching between mobile and desktop performance profiles if most future Macs end up being mobile devices anyway. There will still be a need for desktop machines like the iMac and Mac Pro, but even the iMac could get a
touchscreen makeover in the future.
I know a lot of people scoff at the idea that the iPad is what future computing devices are going to look like, but after seeing all of the iOS features that are going back into OS X Lion, I think the path is clear, not only for "desktop" machines that will be as easy to use as an iPad, but also for a desktop OS truly built for touch.
October 21, 2010 | Categories: Apple, Mac | Leave A Comment »
So here’s the tradeoff in my mind: Get a brand new iPhone at the end of June – but with the cost of another two years with AT&T – or wait six months just to see if the iPhone shows up on another carrier.
Six months really isn’t that long.
I’m seriously leaning toward the latter.
Please go read the article at Webomatica linked above. It totally voices my concerns about AT&T and iPhone 4. However, I feel like I will be unable to wait to upgrade as Jason says he might. I’m a classic early-adopter, so I’m quite impatient given gadget releases, but over time I have been able to rein myself in and do staggered upgrade cycles. I passed on the first iPhone, but finally bought the iPhone 3G. And while I was super annoyed that I couldn’t upgrade cheaply to the 3Gs because my 2-year contract was still in play, waiting to upgrade until now has made getting an iPhone 4 kind of a given (I tweeted yesterday to someone that I figured current 3Gs owners would have to think hard about whether the hardware updates in the iPhone 4 are worth it for them, whereas current 3G owners like Jason and me are probably just chomping at the bit now). I am totally ready to get the iPhone 4 because of its 5MP camera with HD video capabilities and the high-res display. There are a lot of other great features coming in iOS 4, but the two features I mentioned are the ones most important/appealing to me.
However as Jason mentioned, AT&T is a big obstacle to the upgrade path. His concerns about AT&T mirror mine. And in this new place that we’re renting in the south Bay Area, making/receiving calls is definitely hit or miss. We basically have to be upstairs to get a decent signal, and even then the threat of a dropped call still looms and/or strikes. So I am even more soured on the prospect of having to deal with AT&T for another 2 years (at least). We knew that when we moved out to the Bay Area from Chicago that AT&T coverage would just get worse, but knowing it and experiencing it are two different things. It is quite frustrating to have so many dropped calls when I actually didn’t have nearly as much trouble with that back in Chicago.
Yeah, it’s possible that Verizon or T-Mobile will get the iPhone 4 in a few months. But I am not really a Verizon fan, so I don’t think that they’d be any better to deal with, even if on the surface their coverage seems better in this area. I used to be a longtime T-Mobile customer, and they were alright. I just moved away from them because of the iPhone. I also prefer GSM over CDMA for various reasons. So I guess I’d prefer it if T-Mobile would get the iPhone over Verizon. T-Mobile have a decent track record with customer service and not nickel-and-diming people on things like data tethering (example: free tethering with the Nexus One and Froyo). In an ideal world, T-Mobile would break AT&T’s hold over the iPhone, preferably sooner rather than later. The idealist side of me would love to wait to get a non-AT&T-backed iPhone. And yet I will probably just suck it up and pre-order now (well, June 15) because my instant gratification side will win over my “I hate AT&T” side. :-/ I hope for Jason’s sake that AT&T exclusivity breaks sooner than his predicted 6 months, though.
June 12, 2010 | Categories: Apple | Leave A Comment »
I didn’t intend to get an iPad. For a start, I’m in the UK, and – even before the recent news that Apple would be delaying the tablet’s international release – there’s no sign of them at my local Apple Store. Beyond that, though, while I could appreciate the design and the glowing feedback Vincent proffered from the iPad’s launch, it just didn’t seem like the device for me. And yet, when on Saturday April 3rd my US colleagues asked “would you like us to send you one?” I said yes. Since it arrived, around two weeks ago, I’ve gone through marvelling at the industrial design, puzzling over how to fit it into my daily routine, and finally – perhaps grudgingly – recognising its strengths (and, of course, its weaknesses).
Great moderate review of the iPad. I agree with many of the points in this review. While the iPad has become my primary mobile device, I still spend a decent amount of time on my laptop (I’m using it right now) and my iPhone depending on the situation. The iPad App Store is still filling out, and I feel we’re still missing a few “killer apps” in certain categories. The accessory market is still lagging behind right now, but I think by summertime, there’ll be a much larger selection of docks, stands, cases, etc.
Anyway, while it totally irritates me when people dismiss the iPad as no big deal (ahem, it is a big deal for people who were once intimidated by regular computers but can now enjoy casual computing, just as one example), I don’t expect everyone to think it’s the awesomest computing device ever. It has limitations, and though people like to forget this, it’s meant to fit squarely between the laptop and smartphone categories, so this means it’s not going to be appropriate for every situation that might call for a laptop/smartphone. But by the same token, it could very well replace laptops for people whose computing needs don’t go beyond basic e-mailing, browsing, and media consumption…I digress.
Hit up the Slashgear link above to read the whole review article. Do it now!
April 23, 2010 | Categories: Apple, iPad | Leave A Comment »
I know that the iPad isn’t meant to be used with a stylus. However, I still like to try figuring out how to do ink blogging or handwritten notes on any device that might have the capability. And even though Steve Jobs apparently hates styli, there are still plenty of iPad apps out there that allow you to do handwritten notes or sketches that would benefit from using a stylus. I already have a Pogo Sketch stylus, and saw another stylus by a Taiwanese brand called Dagi that looks like a good one to try. This stylus by Ozaki has its own charms. The smaller one has a tether that can fit into the headphone jack, while the bigger version loses the tether, but gains a pen on the other end. Both seem handy, though I think I would go with the bigger stylus for more ergonomic operation while writing/sketching. If I get around to picking up one of these, or the Dagi stylus, I’ll be sure to post a follow-up here.
April 18, 2010 | Categories: Apple, iPad | Leave A Comment »
This iPad stand looks sweet. In the past I never really felt the need to have a dock on my desk for my iPod or iPhone, though I did like the looks of the iPhone dock that makes it look like a mini iMac. However, I think a desk stand for the iPad would be pretty useful since you can use the iPad as a secondary monitor of sorts, running some media playback, or displaying your social network feeds, etc., while you’re working on your desktop/laptop computer. This one looks pretty cool, not only because of its industrial design, but also because it looks like having a case on your iPad won’t be an issue, since the arms are adjustable. Good stuff! I eagerly look forward to this product’s release date.
April 18, 2010 | Categories: Apple, iPad | Leave A Comment »
If you’re looking for some iPad wallpapers, Flickr is a good resource. I just did a search for “iPad wallpaper” and came up with a lot of good stuff, including this set of official wallpapers from NIN. Enjoy!
P.S. It seems that some people are tagging their iPad wallpaper “1024 x 1024″, since those are the proper dimensions to use if you want it to fill the screen in both portrait and landscape. I think I might try my hand at cropping some of my photos to the right dimensions and posting a set on Flickr. Will post a link to the set here when it is up.
April 17, 2010 | Categories: Apple, iPad | Leave A Comment »
Someone wanna buy these for me? They’d go great with the Mac icon magnets I got from my brother a few Xmases ago…
March 11, 2010 | Categories: Apple | Leave A Comment »
I’m often saddened by the infantilising effect of high technology on adults. From being in control of their world, they’re thrust back to a childish, mediaeval world in which gremlins appear to torment them and disappear at will and against which magic, spells, and the local witch doctor are their only refuges.
With the iPhone OS as incarnated in the iPad, Apple proposes to do something about this, and I mean really do something about it instead of just talking about doing something about it, and the world is going mental.
I love this. I totally agree that a computing device doesn’t have to have every high-tech bell and whistle in order to do “real work”. Just read the rest of the article linked above; Fraser Speirs wrote a great feisty post. Go now!
February 1, 2010 | Categories: Apple, iPad | Leave A Comment »
I love my iPhone. I’ve said many, many times that I often use my iPhone way more than I use my laptop. There have been many days when I didn’t touch my laptop all day, using my iPhone instead. I almost always have it with me, and thanks to its mobile broadband connection, I’ve got the internets at my fingertips almost all the time. The iPhone’s “instant-on” capability and simple, single-task apps make it easier to accomplish certain things a lot faster than I would on my MacBook. There are certain computing tasks that I now prefer doing on the iPhone rather than on my laptop, whether it’s because it’s easier to carry around the iPhone during said task (i.e. using Bento to inventory my graphic novels, and using the iPhone’s camera to add a picture of the cover to each database entry), or because the single-task app on the iPhone is faster to access and use than pulling up a browser on my MacBook (i.e. opening the IMDB app to look up an actor from a movie).
My collection of iPhone apps is pretty large (maybe not as large as other more iPhone-crazy kids), so yes, I am “locked” into the App Store, but totally by choice. There are so many wonderfully creative photography-related apps for the iPhone, and they are the ones to which I am most loyal. After the photography apps, my collection of social networking apps gets the most play — Tweetie 2, Facebook, Foursquare, Gowalla, BuddyFeed, etc. Then a couple RSS aggregators, Bento, Amazon.com, Kindle, IMDB, and PhoneFlicks round out the bunch. Yes, I have games, but I don’t play them as much as I use the other aforementioned apps. Words With Friends is currently my most-played game.
My current set of installed apps. Most of the games I’ve left there for my nephew to play with when I visit him.
As I said, I chose to “lock” myself into the iTunes ecosystem because I like and get much use out of several of the apps being offered there. Yes, I think that the App Store approval process has a lot of kinks to get worked out, but the quality of apps coming from the iPhone developers is so good that I chose to invest in this platform over any other. When I used other smartphones that ran Windows Mobile, S60, or UIQ, I didn’t feel any such enthusiasm for apps offered for those platforms, so I never really invested any money in shareware, instead opting for free apps. I also was flipping back and forth between platforms, never knowing which one would catch my eye next, so it didn’t make financial sense to buy apps that I might use for a month or three or four and then “lose” after moving to a completely different device. For a while, I had a smartphone and a 1st-gen iPod touch. I loved using the apps on the iPod touch, but increasingly there were apps that would work with the iPhone only because they needed speakers or mic input or GPS input, and I grew tired of not always having a Wi-Fi connection. I finally bought the iPhone 3G after I found out it would have GPS and 3G support (such as AT&T’s 3G network is… 
). It totally fits my smartphone needs. This isn’t to say that the iPhone is a perfect device, though. Multiple experiments with jailbreaking has shown me what features and functionality Apple has chosen to omit (at this time?). But even playing around with “jailbroken” apps has shown me a creativity, level of innovation, and enthusiasm for a platform that I haven’t seen for other mobile device platforms. [Editor's Note: I have not yet been able to properly play around with an Android phone or a webOS phone, and these two platforms seem most similar in creativity and innovation to the iPhone platform to me, so my opinion may change.] In the meantime, I changed my way of using a smartphone slightly to adjust to how an iPhone works. The iPhone’s limitations weren’t a dealbreaker to me at all. I have no problem typing up huge e-mails or long blog posts on my phone. I am quite productive with my iPhone.
However, there have been times when I wished that I had just a little more screen real estate when working on my iPhone. Or I wished that my MacBook were just a little smaller, lighter, and easier to carry around. I took the MacBook with me on our trip out to CA a few months ago because I thought there might be some things I couldn’t do on the iPhone, like edit travel photos, or do some serious multi-tabbed browsing, looking up information on several neighborhoods in the area. However, I ended up worriedly leaving the MacBook in the hotel room because it was too damn heavy to be lugging around all day. And because we were out and about so much, my iPhone was my workhorse, though poor network coverage in the Bay Area *really* hampered things. For the longest time I lusted after a MacBook Air — full OS X, thinner and lighter than a regular MacBook. However, since I was an avid Tablet PC user before I switched to a Mac, I also dreamed about how Apple could take the Tablet PC concept and “Apple-ify” it. This was helped along by the news of the Axiotron Modbook. Around that time, it seemed that more speculation about an actual tablet device from Apple sort of bubbled up. The iPhone OS and App Store were doing really well, and Apple started incorporating more multitouch input devices into the MacBook line. I even thought to myself that the engineers at Axiotron were probably sweating about whether or not Apple would make a tablet device that would render theirs obsolete.
Enter the iPad (after many months more of wild speculation). It is not the device I was expecting (well, before I saw the rumor that the device would be running a version of the iPhone OS). I was hoping for a slate device with a special touch version of OS X that would allow me to run apps like a photo editor, have a full Safari/Chrome/Firefox browser, and basically most laptop functionality in a smaller, lighter package. I didn’t get what I wished for, but I’m pleasantly surprised by what the iPad is, and am happy enough with its functionality that I plan on buying one (or two…I think the hubby wants one as well). No, it’s not a tablet computer, in the Microsoft-Tablet-PC sense, but as I rambled above, I have been able to get a lot done with my iPhone, and prefer many of its single-task apps to their “desktop” counterparts.
Image credit: Apple
This is the version I want, a 32GB or 64GB version with Wi-Fi and 3G.
The iPad leverages the iPhone OS and apps very well, from what I’ve seen in the announcement. Ironically, this may free me up to get a different smartphone — I’m very curious about both Android and webOS — since I’ll still able to use iPhone apps on the iPad. I have said in the past that I wouldn’t want to completely drop my iPhone if I tried a different phone because of the apps that I like, the photography-related ones, especially. But with the potential to use the iPhone photo apps on the iPad with pictures taken with different cameras or cameraphones, I wouldn’t feel like I’m giving those apps up. I’m not an uber-smartphone-user like some people are, carrying and using several phones at a time, on different carriers. So the iPad would be quite helpful to keep the iPhone apps in use without needing to carry a redundant iPhone along with my other phone. Sorry, Apple!
The iPad also makes another Apple product “unnecessary” for me. For the longest time I wanted a MacBook Air because it is thinner and lighter than my aluminum unibody MacBook. Surprisingly I don’t have a netbook, and I no longer use a desktop computer, so my MacBook is my primary computer. For trips or photo outings, I sometimes need a device to offload pictures to clear out memory cards, so my MacBook would be my go-to device for that. The problem is, it’s so friggin’ heavy that it’s a pain to lug around in addition to camera gear. I thought having a MacBook Air would help the issue, but now that the iPad is here, I think it would work even better as my photo bin, and maybe as a photo uploader, depending on how much “real” photo editing I could do. So, sorry Apple. Instead of the MBA, I will be buying the iPad (and accessories).
I actually have more general ideas about what the iPad is and what it isn’t in separate blog posts, so if you aren’t already tired of my rambling and haven’t read them yet, you can check those articles out to get an even better picture of why I think the iPad is a great new mobile device with lots of potential.
January 30, 2010 | Categories: Apple | 3 Comments »
The iPad is…
…Apple’s version of a netbook. Steve Jobs poked fun of netbooks, saying that they’re not better than laptops at anything, that they’re just cheap laptops. And in a sense, this is true. The basic, lower-end netbooks are just cheap laptops with smaller screens, keyboards, very little storage space, and slower processors. There are higher-end netbooks that are actually quite capable machines with faster processors and higher-res screens that some users have replaced their laptops with. But the main draw of the netbook category was that for most people who only do basic e-mail and web surfing (I would say a pretty big majority of the personal-computer-user population), a lower-specced machine was all they needed. Many of the Linux-based netbooks have an iPhone-esque kiosk UI where the user is presented with large app icons on the desktop to make operation as easy as possible.
They also started out with rather small-capacity SSDs for limited file storage. Later on, netbook-specific OSes showed up to optimize performance on the lower-specced machines. Jolicloud and Intel’s Moblin OSes are the first two that come to mind. Both offer simplified UIs as well:
These OSes also offered the user some kind of centralized app repository that made it easy for the user to download more apps for their netbooks. These apps were often special versions of Linux apps redone for netbooks. Does any of this sound familiar? The iPad extends the iPhone mode of operation to a device with a larger screen and a little bit more processing power to sort of bridge the gap between the iPhone and the MacBook. And the iPad’s base price of $499 for a 16GB, Wi-Fi only device is actually pretty comparable to lower- to mid-range netbooks. I think people considering a netbook will think twice now that you can get the iPad backed by the App Store, iTunes, and the iBookstore.
Now some people will cry foul and say that netbooks are more capable than the iPad, and yes, I agree. The ones running Windows, or ones hacked to use a full version of Linux or even hackintosh netbooks will over some users way more functionality and flexibility than the iPad. But I would tell you that you’re missing the point. Think about regular netbook users, not uber-geeks. Think about computer users who aren’t entirely comfortable using computers. Or think about some more advanced computer users who just want a simple device to get certain tasks done without worrying about cracking open a laptop. This is the main demographic Apple is reaching out to.
…is a great mobile media consumption device. No, you’re not going to replace your pocketable iPod/iPhone or big-screen HDTV with the iPad, but when you’re on a plane, at a cafe, on a trip, or just couch surfing (again, all place where one could carry a netbook), the iPad has a certain advantage over the iPhone or a laptop when watching videos, browsing photos, reading e-books, or even listening to music. The large screen is a boon for video and photo browsing. It would feel more comfortable showing off photos to other people in a room on the iPad than huddling around a laptop.
…is a great mobile media creation device. Many people, myself included, are able to comfortably and capably blog from their iPhones. The iPad’s larger screen and keyboard dock (or any other Bluetooth keyboard) would make blogging while out and about even easier. I could totally see some people using iPads at next year’s tech trade shows like CES. Maybe not the hardcore bloggers for Engadget and the like, but still.
If you saw the demonstration of the Brushes app during the iPad announcement, you can imagine how much more useful the iPad would be to those already creating lovely works of art on the iPhone. And there are tons of music instrument and recording, video recording and editing, and photo-editing apps in the App Store that I can foresee evolving into newer, more capable apps on the iPad hardware.
One of the accessories for the iPad is a set of dongles that connect to the universal dock so that you can offload photos from your camera, either directly or via an SD card reader. Would it be too much of a stretch to see photo apps that might allow some basic RAW conversion/editing? Perhaps so, given the current hardware specs, but who knows? And BTW, yes, I mentioned video recording, even though this first-gen iPad doesn’t have a camera. Come on, you don’t think that isn’t one of the next upgrades?
…is potentially a great next-generation e-print reading device. The iPad’s LCD is about the same size as the Kindle DX’s screen. So already, the larger real estate can make reading books more enjoyable. But the color LCD and processing power of the iPad can also allow publishers to make enhanced e-books that have multimedia supplements. Imagine a book on how to play golf that includes short video clips or animations showing the correct golf swing form, or books on sporting events that actually have highlight clips built-in, or scientific books that have complex color diagrams and videos illustrating the scientific concepts.
I’m also excited about what e-magazines published for the iPad would look like. The large screen will allow magazine publishers to keep essentially the same layout as the print version, with all of the color elements — photos, fonts, etc. — intact. And as I described above, e-magazines could also incorporate more interactive features like video clips, polls that would actually report results back to the magazine’s website, perhaps even a live snippet of related tweets or other social network posts on the subject at hand. I am sort of a magazine junkie who’s had to let all of my subscriptions expire because I’m tired of all of the paper piling up. E-magazines would be a great alternative for me.
Again, naysayers would claim that e-magazines already exist as magazine’s websites. Sure, I agree to a point. But sitting down with a print magazine is not the same experience as reading the same articles online. Wired Magazine posts all of their magazine articles online, but their online layout is stripped-down compared to the print version and looks like a website. E-magazines on an iPad (and any other e-book reader with a large color screen, no matter what the display technology) could recreate a print magazine feel, just like the iBooks app recreates the feel of reading a paper book. To some people, that doesn’t matter, but to others like me, it does.
Other naysayers are out there claiming that the iPad is no Kindle killer because the e-ink display is better both for readability and battery life. Again, I agree to a point. First of all, I hate the term, “x killer”. There’s no reason why multiple devices in a certain consumer electronic category can’t co-exist. Secondly, there’s no doubt that many people will prefer the Kindle/Nook/other e-ink readers over the iPad because an e-ink display is easier on the eyes and can last so much longer on a charge than the iPad. However, for many people like me who have been reading e-books long before the Sony Reader or the Amazon Kindle ever came on the scene, reading on a backlit screen isn’t a bother. I personally prefer it because I often read at night, in bed, in either very dim lighting or no light. And I am not a big fan of having to rely on a reading light, because sometimes I just won’t have access to one. And when you compare the price of the base model iPad to the Kindle DX — USD$ 499.99 vs. $489.99, respectively — the iPad looks to have more bang for the buck because of all of the other features it has over the Kindle DX.
I am a little concerned about how much Apple is going to back their iBookstore, just because we’ve all heard Steve Jobs claim that “no one reads anymore”. However, I think that the iPad is also going to become very important in the field of education, with a lot of school kids potentially using the iPad as a laptop replacement (maybe even textbook replacement??). So in that case, I think Apple may just be in the e-book business for the long haul, now that they’ve produced a device that they think is a worthy e-book reader.
…is still at version 1.0. Perhaps I shouldn’t be, but I continue to be amazed by how many people come out of the woodwork around Apple announcement time and demonstrate how ignorant they are of Apple’s modus operandi. Seriously, people, get over it. When has Apple ever released a first-generation product that had every possible feature or hardware component crammed into it? The iPad is following the iPhone’s path. Remember, the first-gen iPhone didn’t even have apps! No 3G, even though tons of people bellyached about that, and no GPS. The reasoning behind it, whether you believe it was marketing hoo-hah, or just how they planned it all along, was to make the iPhone more stable of a platform than the other smartphone platforms. Opening up the iPhone to apps would affect stability, and using 3G when coverage and hardware optimization wasn’t quite up to par would’ve drained the iPhone’s battery quite handily. A lot of people, including me, held off buying the first iPhone because it didn’t fit their needs, but that sure didn’t make the iPhone flop. I seriously doubt that the first-gen iPad will be a flop, either. It may not sell quite as well as the iPhone, but your guess is as good as mine.
The pricing for the iPad is rather astonishing, given Apple’s usual penchant for overpricing their products because they can. And I fully believe that this is meant to be a shot across the bow for similar products like netbooks, the new smartbook category, and the other slate computer devices that cropped up at CES. A base price of $499 is very attractive to many buyers (I said many, not all). I think it was job one for the iPad to have this surprising pricing scheme, so of course things like a front-facing or rear-facing camera needed to stay out in order to keep the costs down and the profits up. Once Apple has gotten a fair amount of ROI on the first-gen iPad, and they’ve secured ridiculously good deals on mobile camera units, then they’ll release the next version with a camera or two and maybe a built-in SD slot and maybe a USB slot or two if we’re really good.
Another huge thing that people are in a tizzy about is the lack of multitasking. That’s a common complaint for the iPhone, so much so that marketing for other smartphones like the Palm Pre and Droid like to needle the iPhone for it. I agree that given a lot of the apps that are out there now, it would be nice to leave them running in the background, and having push notifications, while useful, is not the best solution, especially for things like streaming audio apps. But I think people have conveniently forgotten that iPhone 4.0 is coming. And there have been strong rumors that a major feature of 4.0 is “a kind of” multitasking. I wouldn’t be surprised if iPhone 4.0 is announced before the iPad is released, and that the main reason why it wasn’t announced at the iPad event was to keep the focus on the iPad. I can also imagine that work on the iPad went down to the wire and there was no time to fully integrate and test iPhone 4.0 before the iPad announcement deadline. Similarly, Apple could just be planning to release the iPad as-is and put in iPhone 4.0 as an update, post-release. Furthermore, I think that while there are a lot of “no multitasking” complaints online, a lot of regular iPhone users really don’t care about multitasking because this is their first smartphone and they don’t know any better. And other iPhone users like myself have gotten used to the lack of multitasking, and don’t consider it a dealbreaker. However, I fully expect multitasking to come sooner rather than later thanks to the Android and Palm smartphones out there now. Apple is very good at holding back the goods so that they come from a position of strength. They knew that releasing the iPad without some key features wouldn’t hamper initial sales, and would give them something for version 2.0. Sneaky buggers.
January 30, 2010 | Categories: Apple, iPad | Leave A Comment »
I watched live coverage of the Apple iPad announcement (thanks, TWiT Live and MacBreak Weekly!), read a few hands-on articles, watched the short video about the iPad, as well as watched the video of the iPad announcement when it was finally available for download. I think I’ve seen enough about the iPad to do some armchair quarterback write-ups of my own. I’ll do this in three parts to save the reader from needing to wade through an uber-uber-long post: part one will be what the iPad isn’t. Part two is what the iPad is. And part three is my long-winded way of saying, “hell yeah, I’m buying an iPad!” So stay tuned.
January 30, 2010 | Categories: Apple | Leave A Comment »
The shot below is one of several pictures I took while walking around Woodfield Mall. I used Posterous’s new iPhone app, PicPosterous, to essentially “live blog” interesting things I saw at the mall. The app is pretty nice, and I like how Posterous presents pictures as albums if I choose to group them together. WordPress would do well to update the way people can embed media on WordPress.com blogs… Anyway, to see the rest of the Woodfield album, go here.
August 25, 2009 | Categories: Apple, digital photography, iPhone, iPhone 3G, Mobile Tech, moblogging, photoblog, photography, photowalk, PicPosterous, Posterous, Tech, Woodfield Mall | Leave A Comment »
***Editor’s note*** I just realized that the picture from the N95, while it seemed to transfer over as full-res, got shrunken down when it was added to the iPhone’s camera roll. I thought CameraKit was working awfully quickly, compared to when I used native iPhone pictures… So while I get the benefit of the N95′s autofocus and macro focus, I don’t get the benefit of higher-res pictures once transferred to the iPhone (because the N95 has no cool photo editing apps, nor do I have a working data SIM for it for direct uploads)… SIGH. So much for kludging together better mobile phone pictures through the iPhone, N95, and jailbroken 3rd-party app iBluetooth.
Pic taken with a Nokia N95, then transferred to my iPhone via BT (shhh, it’s a secret!) for post-processing and uploading. Oh, what convoluted things I’ll do because I can’t get an iPhone 3GS right now…
August 24, 2009 | Categories: Apple, digital photography, gadgets, iPhone, iPhone 3G, kludge, Mobile Tech, Nokia, Nokia N95, photoblog, photography, Tech | Leave A Comment »
When I finally bought an Eye-Fi card, I thought it was going to be super cool, because I would be able to dump pictures from the camera to my laptop without needing to mess with card readers or USB cables. Unfortunately it didn’t work out as planned. Firstly, it didn’t handle file types other than JPEGs (I think with the firmware updates that have been released, Eye-Fi does handle RAW files, too, but don’t take my word for it). Secondly, you couldn’t choose which pictures to send to the computer, or when you could upload them. You basically were uploading whatever you shot after you put the Eye-Fi in the camera and started shooting. If you were out shooting with the Eye-Fi card away from an AP and/or your home WiFi and computer, you couldn’t go back and select the pictures you took after you got back home. Thirdly, you had to set up wireless APs beforehand; you couldn’t just scan for and use any old WiFi AP available (again this may or may not be addressed now by new firmware updates) on the fly. And the worst part was that you couldn’t turn off wireless scanning if you knew you wouldn’t be in range of an open AP or knew you didn’t want to use wireless uploading for some reason. I didn’t think about this when I went to this year’s Chicago auto show and realized that my LX3′s battery had died in about 15 or 20 minutes, even though I fully charged it the night before. Luckily I had another battery and a different SD card to use. At that point, I stopped using the Eye-Fi altogether.
Now, it wasn’t exactly that incident that soured me on the Eye-Fi, though it was a big contributor. Also, many of the limitations with the Eye-Fi result from the functionality being embedded in the card, not the camera. So of course I know there’s a limit to what the Eye-Fi can do, given its form factor and how it was originally designed to work. Some of the issues I mentioned have been addressed by firmware updates, and sometime in the near future I’ll revisit my Eye-Fi and see what I can and can’t do with it. I’d be happy to retract all of my gripes if I find out they’ve all been fixed!
Actually, the main issue for me is that I normally like to edit my pictures before posting them online. Mobile-wise, I really liked being able to take pictures with my Sony Ericsson P1i, then do some rudimentary editing with the built-in photo editing software. I did some photo editing on my Nokia N95, but being limited to using the joystick to do editing, and the limitations of the app itself meant that I didn’t really use it much. Processing photos was better on the P1i because of the touchscreen. Also, I could optionally pen annotations right onto the photo. I continued to do mobile photo editing with my iPhone. At first the editing apps that showed up in the App Store were pretty useless for me — face melting, adding silly frames and cutesy little stamps. But eventually the category exploded and soon there were a ton of different photo processing apps, from utilitarian to whimsical, that piqued my interest. I check that category from time to time for new apps to try. I think it’s pretty cool how people have come up with some genuinely creative photo apps for the iPhone.
I’ve posted before that I have a couple pet photo editing apps that I love to use on the iPhone — Photogene and Tiffen’s Photo fx. Photogene is more like a Photoshop-type editor, whereas Photo fx applies various filters to your picture. Cropping was recently added to Photo fx, so if all you need to do before applying some filters is to crop the picture, you can do it all within Photo fx. Anyway, the “problem” with this setup is that the iPhone’s camera is not as good as my favorite P&S — the LX3 — or my D90. The iPhone is fine for moblog snapshots, but if I want to upload pictures from my other cameras, I have to wait until I’m home, sift through the pictures on the card, copy over the ones I want to edit, edit them, add title, description, and tags, and then upload them. Or, do this on the go with my laptop and hope I can connect to a WiFi AP somewhere because I don’t yet have a MiFi or some other method to tether my laptop to a mobile broadband account.
Perhaps you already know where this is going: my ultimate wireless picture-taking and uploading setup would be to take pictures with my LX3, D90 or any other digital camera, then wirelessly transfer certain pictures to some mobile device that would allow me to edit the picture, add metadata, then upload it. Alternatively I could do the editing in-camera (both the LX3 and D90 seem to have some rather decent in-camera editing tools) and then just use the mobile device’s data connection to upload to Flickr or elsewhere. I envision a couple different scenarios to accomplish this:
1. A device like an Eye-Fi or some other dongle connected to the camera communicates with my iPhone and either lets me copy the picture over to edit on the iPhone, or I edit the picture beforehand in-camera. Then I use a photo uploader app on the iPhone to upload the picture to Flickr or wherever else via the iPhone’s 3G or WiFi connection. For the briefest of moments, I thought perhaps that was what Eye-Fi’s iPhone app was going to enable. How sorely disappointed I was when I found out it was basically an uploader like Flickit (my Flickr uploader of choice on the iPhone) for pictures taken with the iPhone. WHAT? *facepalm*
I understand that the Eye-Fi uploader could have been restricted by the iPhone’s SDK somehow, but it would’ve been awesome if Eye-Fi could’ve worked out a deal with Apple to implement the type of uploader I described. Can you imagine how many people would consider the iPhone if it could act as a mobile broadband gateway for any camera using an Eye-Fi card? What up, Eye-Fi? Apple?
2. A mobile device such as the mythical (but hopefully soon-to-be real?) Mac tablet would be even better than a smartphone in this situation because it could have more processing power and more screen real estate in case I want to do more “serious” editing for a particular shot. Then I could feasibly use Photoshop Elements or something else to do the editing and have the regular arsenal of tools at my disposal. The touchscreen on the tablet would be like a Wacom tablet, enabling easier manipulation of the editing software with your fingers.
Before anybody balks at me, I realize that it may be possible to do scenario number 2 with a camera, an Eye-Fi, a laptop or netbook (or UMPC if you go that way *smirk*), and a MiFi. I’m guessing that you would be able to set up the Eye-Fi to see and use the WiFi AP that the MiFi provides (if that’s what the MiFi does; I’m guessing). That’s all well and good, but as I’ve realized when I’ve carried my MacBook with me along with all my camera gear to the yearly visit to the Detroit auto show, carrying all this stuff is friggin’ heavy! A device smaller and lighter than my MacBook is preferred. As an aside, I actually tried to use my N810 in a very kludgy setup with an external hard drive and a card reader to be a photo bin and/or a mobile photo uploader. The setup never really worked, unfortunately, and it was too unwieldy with all of the cords and external devices to be useful in a mobile setting anyway.
I would probably feel differently if I had a netbook with enough horsepower to run a photo editing app like Photoshop Elements. That might be what I’m missing, along with the MiFi. But I still am holding out for a Mac tablet as my dream device to be my photo editor and upload gateway. It might not work as well as I planned if the Mac tablet ends up basically being a large-screened iPhone, running the embedded version of OS X. In that case, the photo editing apps might be limited to those already found on the iPhone. That’s okay for the most part, since I try not to do that much editing beyond cropping and a little bit of levels and shadow/highlight fixes. But I would love something like a slate tablet computer that can do full Photoshop Elements or Aperture, if we’re talking about the ideal scenario. I really liked editing photos in slate mode on my Tablet PC back in the day. But I am primarily an OS X user now, hence my wish for a Mac tablet. YMMV.
I picked on the Eye-Fi a bit in my post, but really this semi-gripe applies to any of the cameras out there that have built-in WiFi or use dongles for WiFi connectivity. Often these cameras are locked into specific online services as well, which make them even less useful for my personal workflow. They never end up simply being a camera that connect to a wireless AP on the fly and upload pictures to any site.
One last thing: an alternate or parallel scenario is for the iPhone or some other cameraphone to have a decent enough camera so that I don’t have to use a separate camera. However, given the technical restrictions on sensors and such, I don’t see any cameraphones in at least the next 2 or 3 years being as good as my LX3 or similar creative P&S with regards to low-light capability, fine detail, or depth of field, nor would they be as good as a DSLR. However, an iPhone with at least a 5 or 6 MP camera, autofocus, macro mode, and modest optical zoom would be a great moblogging device. I almost went with one of Sony Ericsson’s Cybershot models before I decided on the iPhone 3G because they are more like cameras with phones shoehorned into them. I really like SE’s cameraphones, and as I mentioned in a previous post, the Satio is a phone I’m keeping an eye on. But I’m so invested now in the iPhone and its apps (and iTunes) that it would take a pretty spectacular phone to pry me away from the iPhone family.
July 2, 2009 | Categories: Apple, digital photography, Eye-Fi, gadgets, iPhone, iPhone 3G, Mac, mobile broadband, Mobile Tech, moblogging, smartphone, Tech | 9 Comments »
I am quite the iPhone enthusiast, but before I finally got the iPhone 3G, I was using a Sony Ericsson P1i. I loved that phone. It had a great camera, even though it was lower-res than my Nokia N95. The camera UI was quite user-friendly and a bit snappier than the N95′s. Once I figured out the hotkeys, it was easy to change settings on the fly without having to navigate an on-screen menu. The overall UIQ OS was a bit fussy, but there were many things I liked about it over S60 3rd-edition. I loved the unique keyboard on the device. I got really good at typing fast on it. I even really liked Opera Mobile and Opera Mini on the P1i. I almost upgraded to the K850i before I decided to go with the iPhone. IMO, Sony Ericsson does cameraphones just right. They basically shoehorned a Sony Cybershot camera into nice phones. And their Walkman line of phones use a great UI that’s very similar to the PSP/PS3 menus.
While I am eagerly anticipating the update to the iPhone 3G, and it’s highly likely that I will upgrade to it (if I can afford it), I am very, very intrigued by the Sony Ericsson Satio (though I’m not so enthused by the name):
I think I saw news about this phone when it was still called the Idou, but I hadn’t paid too close attention to it at the time. I’ve been bad about keeping up with tech news lately, and this, among other things, slipped by me. However, after I saw today’s news about the final name of Satio, I went looking up more info about it on Engadget Mobile and saw this video they did. Very cool idea behind the phone, merging the Cybershot and Walkman lines of phones together. I also love that it’s Sony’s great UI over Symbian S60. I haven’t been too impressed by Nokia’s half-assed implementation of touch S60, so I’m hoping that Sony did better.
Even though I think that the iPhone has a great combo of OS, UI, and App Store, I do miss using other phones sometimes. The Satio looks like a great gadgety phone with features that I would love. The Palm Pre looks great, but I really don’t want to switch to Sprint. I already switched from T-Mobile to AT&T when I got the 3G, and my contract hasn’t run out yet. Besides, I was on Sprint a long time ago (using a Nextel phone before it got popular and then annoying) and don’t want to go back. I know the Pre is going to be released on other carriers later, but it could be quite a long time before it’s available from AT&T, if ever. Anyway, the Satio just seems really interesting to me right now. I was disappointed when the P1i never got updated, and SE subsequently dumped UIQ. But the Satio seems like the natural successor to the line of smartphones that the P1i was a part of. I’m very eager to see how the Satio looks like in person. And I’m glad that even though there’s been some bad financial news with Sony Ericsson lately, they still seem like they’re working hard to release interesting phones, which is more than I can say for other phone manufacturers in the dumps.
May 28, 2009 | Categories: Apple, awesome, cool design, gadgets, Idou, iPhone, iPhone 3G, mobile, Mobile Tech, N95, Nokia, P1i, phone, Satio, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Tech | 2 Comments »
Since I haven’t been blogging recently, many of you probably have forgotten that purple is my favorite color. Well, today I bought a cool case for my aluminum unibody Macbook that makes it into a purple gadget of sorts. It’s a two-piece case from Speck called the SeeThru Satin hard-shell case. It’s quite easy to install, just pop the appropriate pieces on the notebook lid and the main body, and you’re good to go. There are a few inconspicuous tabs on each piece that latch on to the notebook to keep the covers in place. It’s easy to remove so that you can occasionally clean off the inside of the case, which they recommend doing to avoid debris from accumulating in between the cover and the notebook. But it’s not so easy to take off that the pieces aren’t secure. As stated by the product name, the case has a satin finish which helps the whole package feel a bit more grippy when on your lap, or when carrying, which is a nice feature. We’ll see how well the case holds up to smudging, bumps, and scratches in everyday use. So far I’m liking it, especially because it makes my Macbook look different from others (the glowing apple on the notebook lid can still shine through the case, and it looks pretty cool in purple).
Check out some pictures:
January 10, 2009 | Categories: Apple, case, cool design, gadgets, Mac, Macbook, purple, Tech | 5 Comments »
Ever since I upgraded to an iPhone 3G, my iPod touch has been sitting around getting dusty. But tonight I realized one way I can effectively repurpose it — make it into my kitchen computer/cookbook. In the past, when I’ve wanted to make a note of a recipe, likely found on allrecipes.com, I merely Google Bookmarked it so I could pull it up in any browser later. But since for whatever reason Google Bookmark still doesn’t have an iPhone-friendly site (or even a regular mobile site, AFAIK), pulling up recipes isn’t that easy, requiring multiple clicks and zooming in on the recipe text just so to make it readable.
Just today I realized that it would be better just to clip the recipe text and maybe a picture and send it to Evernote. Then I can open the note in the Evernote app on the iPod touch and it’ll be nicely formatted for the small screen. Sweet!
November 26, 2008 | Categories: Apple, awesome, Evernote, gadgets, iPod touch, Mobile Tech, Tech | Leave A Comment »
My current overall iPhone theme
Hi, Kids.
Sorry for being so scarce lately… Microblogs have taken over, so if you haven’t been following me on Jaiku, FriendFeed, or Twitter, you’re missing out…
Anyway, I finally was able to upgrade my iPhone (3G) to 2.2 without losing my jailbreak functionality. PwnageTool to the rescue! And luckily, despite the warning that the new unibody Macbooks have some issues with DFU mode, the jailbreak went off without a hitch, and as far as I can tell, all major functionality from AppStore apps to making and receiving calls works as expected.
This is a screenshot of what my phone looks like now. I love being able to skin my home screens. This is the iGlassSol theme available from the Cydia installer. Yesterday a buddy of mine on Twitter asked what my favorite jailbreak apps are, and today I answered the question on Jaiku (in my “good morning” thread):
http://jezlyn.jaiku.com/presence/49685283
Since I know a lot of you will not click on the link above, I will reproduce the relevant text here:
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Winterboard – skinning app. There are tons of themes out there! Currently I’m using iGlassSol as my theme, and Tokidoki Lockscreen. I’ll post screenshots on Flickr. (Editor’s note: I was using the Tokidoki lock screen before I realized I could add weather info to the lockscreen, so I’m using that now. Screenshot can be seen in my Flickr stream.)
CallMe – creates an icon for a contact on the home screen for one-touch dialing.
QuickGold – a Quicksilver-like app launcher. Pretty nice if you have a ton of apps installed.
PdaNet – tethering app. Not free anymore, but it said it would revert to a free version after the 14-day trial is up. Not sure what the limitations are.
OpenSSH – for easy SSH access to your iPhone’s file system. There are 3rd-party audio/video players that will play songs that you SFTP into a directory like /private/var/media or whatever.
Notifier – adds taskbar icons for stuff like unread mail, missed calls, SMSes, etc.
Backgrounder – app to allow 3rd-party apps run in the background. Recommended for AppStore apps, not jailbroken ones. If a jailbroken app can run in the background, it’d be coded up to do so (like a scrobbling app). It doesn’t always work that well, but I like having it around, in case I’m streaming music or listening to a sound generator app like aSleep or Easy Relax and want to check my e-mail or surf something up without disrupting the audio.
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I also use Scrobble so that my listened-to tracks on my iPhone get sent off to last.fm, but the app is buggy in that it sends duplicate “scrobbles” to last.fm, requiring me to periodically prune my track list. I realized that there is another app called Scrobbled which, IIRC, is actually the scrobbling portion of the MobileScrobbler, the last.fm app that used to be available for jailbroken phones, but is now obsolete with the official last.fm app available in the AppStore. However, Scrobbled doesn’t seem to be working with 2.2 firmware, as I found out today, so I switched back to Scrobble.
So that’s what last night’s project was. It’s very cool to have 2.2 firmware functionality, but the podcast downloading feature is rather disappointing. The 10MB podcast size limit is ridiculous. Just about all of my podcasts are over 10MB (video and audio), so there aren’t many that I can just download on the fly via 3G or EDGE. I’ll have to play around with the new features in the 2.2 firmware to really figure out what can be done.
November 25, 2008 | Categories: Apple, gadgets, hacking, iPhone, iPhone 3G, jailbreak, Mobile Tech, Tech | 1 Comment »
AWESOME!
After years & years of wishing there were season box sets of Top Gear available to purchase here in the US, I just now found out that iTunes has Top Gear, series 10 available for purchase! I can’t wait to see more seasons show up for sale. Very cool. The Stig approves.
October 20, 2008 | Categories: Apple, awesome, BBC, fun, handwriting, ink, ink blogging, iTunes, Top Gear, TV, TV show | Leave A Comment »
Usually I go to Amazon to find missing album art. Well, I just found out I don’t even have to save the pic file before pasting it into iTunes. I can just right-click on the pic to copy into the clipboard then paste in the album art window. Fast and easy!
March 2, 2008 | Categories: Apple, handwriting, ink, ink blogging, Internet tablet, iTunes, Misc Stuff, Nokia | 3 Comments »
Hi, Kids!
How were your holidays? What fun gadgets or other nifty gifties did you all get?
Sorry about the huge gap in blogging. I was slowly withdrawing from reading feeds & doing much of anything else online other than reading & posting on Jaiku, Twitter, & Pownce (mostly Jaiku). And over the holidays I got rather sick, which really sidelined me for a while. Anyway, enough excuses. I can’t promise that I’ll be more prolific in the coming days, weeks, or months, but I’ll try my best!
In other news, I’m excited for tomorrow’s MacWorld keynote. Rumors about a tablet-style Mac have been running rampant again this year, but I think the ModBook will be the only tablet Mac for a while. There will probably be an ultra-portable MacBook. I hope it’s not called “MacBook Air” as the rumors claim. What I’d really like is direct WiFi downloading of podcasts to the iPhone/iPod touch. Yes, I can already do this via a 3rd-party hack, but native support would be nicer. That’s really all I care to predict at the moment. I’d love it if Apple would release an iPhone-like tablet with a 5″ or 7″ screen and decent amount of flash storage, but it won’t happen this year. Maybe next year. Whatever is announced, I know that tomorrow is going to be unproductive while the keynote is happening.
The other even that I’m looking forward to this weekend is the Detroit auto show! The hubby & I have gone every year for at least the past 4 years (IIRC). It’s a nice weekend road trip to take after the holidays. I’ll talk more about what gear I’m bringing later. Right now I really need to get to bed!
P.S. I really hate touchscreen inking… *sigh*
* 10 points to the first commenter to tell me where “nifty gifties” comes from.
January 15, 2008 | Categories: Apple, gadgets, handwriting, ink, ink blogging, iPod touch, Mac, Mobile Tech, personal, rambling, Tablet PC, Tech | Leave A Comment »
I just watched the pilot for NBC’s Journeyman. If I were to oversimplify the general plot, I’d say that it’s like Quantum Leap happening to a normal guy in 2007. The key word here is oversimplify. I thought the pilot was pretty good, though. I’ll be adding the show to my regular TV viewing schedule. However, I think they’re going to have to get a bit more on the ball about certain details. Case in point: the main character, Dan, has an iPhone, but unless it’s a special one that’s causing his jumps back in time, it was shown upside-down in a quick scene:
This particular brief glimpse at his phone signified that he wasn’t in the present day, hence the “no service”. Hello, NBC, I know you have a beef with Apple, but this isn’t the way to make yourselves look like the ones in the right. Because right now you look very, very wrong.
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September 24, 2007 | Categories: Apple, goof, iPhone, Journeyman, Mobile Tech, NBC, stupid mistake, Tech, TV show | 3 Comments »
