No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Last year, around this time, I attended my second ever MacWorld in San Francisco (January 14-18 this year). For the first time last January however, I was on a Media pass and had access to Steve Jobs’ Keynote Address (January 15 this year), the most exciting event in the Macintosh year. New products are introduced, [...]

A takeoff on the wonderful Feist video…

Technorati Tags: Apple, iPod, iPhone

Well, Steve did it. Went onstage yesterday, introduced a couple new iPods and then, with a dramatic flair…Well, actually almost under his breath, cut the price of the iPhone by $200.
Ouch. Some of the fanboys are pissed.
I paid $599 for mine the day after they came out, but if I’d waited, I could have saved [...]

Posted on MacWorld’s iPhone site, in response to NBC deciding they don’t want to sell content on iTunes anymore.
Well, that’s not entirely true. Apparently, they wanted to double the wholesale price of their shows, thus driving the price you and I pay for episodes of The Office or Heroes to $4.99 each. That’s too much. [...]

Today was one of those days when Steve Jobs gets up in front of a bunch of Apple fans, journalists and fanboys and lets the world in on some remarkable and wonderful news.
Wow, that sounded sarcastic, didn’t it? Well, I slept pretty badly last night, my mask hasn’t been doing its job, apparently, and all [...]

Dan Gillmor is a smart guy, and I usually agree with his opinions. He misses the boat in his current post at All Things Digital though, where he argues that the iPhone “feels like a beta product” and is “the most shamelessly overhyped consumer product since Windows 95.”
Shamelessy hyped? Sure. But overhyped? No way. With [...]

The earbuds that come with the iPhone are the first I can use with comfort. I’m not sure what they did this time, but they work for me. When I’m using the phone as a…well, phone, the other caller reports a fine sound, as good as holding the thing up to my head.
I also love [...]