By The Angry Drunk
The 2009 Apple World Wide Developer Conference Keynote was yesterday and Apple announced quite a few things. Here’s a compilation of my thoughts on the announcements. Updated Notebooks
The first substantive announcement was updates to the Macbook and Macbook Pro lineups. I don’t have the patience to detail all of the changes, but you can read up on them here. The gist of the updates are: The Unibody 17, 15, and 13 inch models now all fall under the MacBook Pro label. The polycarbonate 15-inch Macbook gains an official place in the lineup. The Macbook Air gets a price drop. Firewire 800 and a Secure Digital card slot are present on all Macbook Pros, regardless of size. And finally, ExpressCard remains only on the 17-inch Macbook Pro. Notably, although not surprisingly, missing from the announcement was the long dreamed for Apple netbook.
To me, there are some interesting implications of yesterday’s notebook announcements. First, Apple has finally seen the problems inherent in maintaining a Macbook vs. Macbook Pro distinction arbitrarily based on screen size and port availability. Now it is clear that Unibody models (excepting the Air) are to be seen as “professional” machines and the polycarbonate model(s)
Continue reading WWDC 2009 Keynote Announcement Comments
By The Angry Drunk
So yeah, nice update, but I think I’ll wait. Here’s the logic. Currently my AT&T account page shows that I’ll be eligible for a discounted upgrade from my iPhone 3G on December 23rd. I don’t see any reason why that policy would change. Next, Apple has now consistently upgraded the iPhone 1 year after the release of the previous model. I think I can wait six months to see what 2010′s iPhone model has to offer. Early prediction 64GB memory top end and the newly rolled out 4G network. Which may also mean independence from AT&T, not that Verizon is any better.
By The Angry Drunk
As I read the Palm Pre review at Engadget, I’m laughing my ass off at the linguistic contortions they go through to make sure they always write “web standards” when they really mean “Javascript and CSS.”
By The Angry Drunk
It’s been a while since I’ve regaled you with pictures of my finger. Behold what almost 2 months of healing hath accomplished. Considerably less disturbing pictures after the jump.
Continue reading Gimp Hand Update 6/1/2009
By The Angry Drunk
Pretty much every time that news breaks regarding yet another fuckup with the iPhone App Store approval process I get a slew of emails and tweets prompting me to opine on the subject. In general I haven’t done so, not because I don’t have an opinion on the subject, but because I fear that my opinion would not be well understood. Nonetheless, I’m going to take the time now to lay out my thoughts on the whole sad, sorry affair.
John Gruber over at Daring Fireball published a piece today titled Excerpts From the Diary of an App Store Reviewer. It’s funny, with John’s characteristic dry wit. It’s also wrong.
As an aside, I want to make it perfectly clear that I’m not claiming any special knowledge regarding this situation, and I don’t think that John is either. I’m merely speculating based on what I’ve seen in the last year, and my own experience with similar processes at other companies.
John seems to argue, in his humorous way, that the core issue with the App Store approval debacles is the individual reviewers acting capricious for their own personal reasons. He writes:
I could read that over and over. It’s like
Continue reading App Store Follies
By The Angry Drunk
I may expound on this later, but I just purchased a Canon PowerShot SD960 IS, and I’m loving it. Replaces my old A520 handily and also eliminates any need to by a Flip camcorder. Convergence for the win.
By The Angry Drunk
This one goes out to my Republican friends.
Just get it over with and call Sonia Sotomayor a “spic bitch” and be done with it. You know you want to, and it might stave off the aneurysm that you’re working up to.
By The Angry Drunk
There is much that I could say regarding the state of our armed forces, the way in which we treat our veterans, and the decisions that have led us to where we are now; but I wont.
Instead let’s take this time to honor the the men and women who have, and who continue to serve in defense of this country. Thank you.
By The Angry Drunk
It’s time for me to give back to the community. So I’m going to provide some information about a condition that has affected me personally, and probably has affected many of my readers: Evil Hand Disorder (EHD). EHD is a very personal disorder, so I’d like to thank the many anonymous contributers to this F.A.Q. Their courage is inspiring.
Continue reading FAQ: Coping With an Evil Hand
By The Angry Drunk
The technopunditocracy insists on vomiting forth articles about how the iPhone 3G’s camera compares “unfavorably” with point-and-shoot cameras. But I ask you, where are the articles pointing out the lousy quality of the average point-and-shoot camera’s cell reception compared with the iPhone?
