4 posts tagged “apple”
So the Blackberry Bold is coming out in its I must say beautifully redeisgned glory that doe share similair design elements from the iPhone, it has great new features and better yet a new OS and interface. And guess who the first “exclusive” carrier is going to be, why thats right AT&T. Problem? Yes. The Bold is a direct competitor to the iPhone and AT&T has both exclusively. This is bad news for the iPhone, and this on top of other reasons is why Apple needs to jump the exclusive ship and spread out. Reach the greatest ammount of customers possible not reaching the smallest ammount of customers possible. Apple needs to open the iPhone up to the second largest network in America and the highest ranked in customer satisfaciton VERIZON. The iPhone should be available to as many people as possible if Apple really wants to make a dent, because guess what the Bold may be with AT&T for a while but Blackberry knows how to make money and you can put money on RIM opening up to the other carriers within 6 months. Apple tried to show favoritism to AT&T, it tried to forge a strong one carrier alliance; but it failed, and not because Apple didn't try but because AT&T is more interested in selling competitors phones, providing crappy service and not keeping up to their end of the bargain. It's time to cut the deal and cut your losses. Verizon is the NO1 network on the East Coast and thats a big market that Apple is throwing away by not pushing the iPhone there.
We're 25 days away till the end of February. That also means we're 25 days till the iPod Touch/iPhone SDK releases. I myself am very, very excited. Games, AudioScrobbler, A Dictionary App, and hopefully (this is my request) A NIKE+ APP!!! Please Apple, Nike, SOMEONE!!!! Make a Nike+ app for the iTouch OS. There is absolutely no reason that someone (especially you Apple) can't make an app that links with the receiver. I feel as an iPod Touch user kinda screwed. Here I paid 300 dollars, thats 50 bucks more than the iPod Classic, and 150 more than the damned Nano and I don't have two features that those have. The Nano has Nike+ integration, and the Classic has games. The Touch, has neither of those. I bought the top of the line iPod why the hell don't I have these two features! GET ON IT!
I'm finally noticing the lack of performance in my MacBook and thought that I'd treat it to a major upgrading. So I've broken this down into three phases.
The first phase is memory and it will be my first purchase come the 15th. I'm going to upgrade to 1gb because quite frankly memory is the biggest problem with my MacBook right now. I found a great deal on Crucial for 43.99! I'm also going to get the mini-dvi to vga adapter for 19.99 at this time so I can use my MacBook on the large 21'' monitor in the office and so that I can hook it up to my 17'' monitor at home.
Second phase is hard drive and it will be my second purchase later on. I found another great deal on Other World Computing for 67.99 for a 80gb hard drive. My current OEM 60gb one has about 6 gb's left, not good.
Lastly, the third phase and the very last and largest purchase goes to LEOPARD AND iLIFE 07 and iWORKS 07 ONCE THEY FINALLY COME OUT!!!! But that wont be till at least, from what I hear on the street, around August maybe September.
Remember the "Think Different" Apple campaign of the late 90's? Well its back (kinda) in modern Applesque style. Check out this fan made video found on YouTube.
