Cult of Mac has an interview with Satoshi Nakajima, the lead architect for Windows 95, who had converted to being a Mac user since two years’ ago vowing never to use a PC again.
Nakajima is also the President of Big Canvas, a company dedicated to developing for Apple’s iPhone platform.
You can read the whole story here.
More proxy reporting here. Engadget has flown all the way down to Auckland to interview the first ten people in line to buy the iPhone.
Which by now they would have already been iPhone owners.
The site’s here.
True to their promise, the guys ifixit, being 4th in line in the world to buy the iPhone 3G, have already done so and have posted the disassembly photos on their website.
Enjoy!!!
So Microsoft decided to “stay up and fight” Apple’s “Get a Mac” advertisements by launching a Anti-Apple advertisement of their own. I wonder how that will work out, and what they will be touting as great on Vista.
I am thus offering my own ten reasons why Vista is “great”, maybe they can draw inspiration from my reasons~
Hahz.
Here goes.
1. Vista is great because you can run it on any hardware, except anything that is more than a month old from being the latest technology.
2. Vista is the most secured OS in the world, if you only count the different versions of Windows as the only OSes in the world
3. Vista is great because it’s not compatible with most existing programs! So a lesser chance of being hit by an existing program that is actually a virus.
4. Vista is great because it stimulates the economy – by making everyone who owns a computer buy lots and lots and lots of new hardware just to run Vista, the operating system, on its own.
5. Vista is great because it creates fun – by being the sole inspiration of a shitload of tech jokes about itself.
6. Vista is great because it has new and great features – that are copied from Mac OS X Tiger, as stated, proven, and sworn by Vista’s creator, Jim Alchin.
7. Vista is great because it shows people the value of Windows XP – that XP was way way way faster, stable, and better than Vista.
8. Vista is great because it is truly the consumers’ Windows – because businesses refused to upgrade to Vista.
9. Vista is great because we have the biggest software library in the world – inspiring the worst interfaces, program functions and malware you can ever find in this world.
10. Vista is great because it’s Windows!!! “We have forced you to use Windows your whole life. You have to obey us, Microsoft, your OS Overlord. Without us you have no job. Without us you won’t even have a decent word processing program in your computer. Without us you are nothing! Upgrade to Vista, NOW!!!
I am sure almost everyone with a .Mac account has already received the news – MobileMe will be launched in between 8pm-2am July 9th/July 10th Pacific Time, which makes it 11am to 5pm July 10th in Singapore.
In Apple’s own words,
“MobileMe Launch
7/9/2008, 6pm-12am PT
As part of the MobileMe launch, www.mac.com will be taken offline at 6pm PT on Wednesday, July 9th.
Members will be unable to access www.mac.com or any .Mac services during this time with the exception of .Mac Mail accessed via a desktop application, iPhone, or iPod touch.
MobileMe will be available as soon as possible during this maintenance window.”
So damn excited.
One thing though – I really hope the service quality improves with mobileme. It is no use having pretty and extremely functional webapps when the service is dog slow. For example, the connection time-outs I am getting with iDisk 99% of the time has to go.
Using the fact that Optus is Singtel-owned, the pricing that Optus released for the Australian iPhone today is extremely interesting, and gives deep insights on what the possible pricing for the iPhone in Singapore will be. It is also highly possible that the plans offered in Australia under Optus will be similar to the plans offered in Singapore eventually.
There are both pre-paid and post-paid plans for the iPhone, and for the pre-paid plans, the iPhone is priced at 729 Australian dollars(about 960 Singapore dollars) for the 8GB model and at 849 Australian dollars (about 1110 Singapore dollars) for the 16GB model respectively.
The pricing sounds extremely outrageous compared to the pricing offered by carriers in other countries such as the U.K. and the United States.
However, the site itself is relatively confusing as it is not clear if customers opting for a contract-based plan will be getting the phone at cheaper rates. If the rumors that Singapore will be only getting the unsubsidized iPhone 3G are true, I am going to be one furious Singtel boycotter.
Singtel is still going to win big time though, but I foresee a big market of grey imports as soon as Singtel announces a ridiculous pricing.
How much will the iPhone retail in Singapore for exactly?
As the Mac faithful have found out after watching Lord Steve’s WWDC keynote, iPhones will not be sold for more than USD$199 in all countries (in Apple’s own exchange rates) so long they are being sold with data plans and contracts.
Is it really the case?
Why, then, are there news coming from many insiders from Singtel that the iPhone will be sold unsubsidized in Singapore, for a price of $500 to $1000?
Singtel, the strongest mobile operator in Singapore simply because it is “state-owned” (it is privatized, but the major shareholder is Temasek Holdings, which is stated-owned, and is controlled largely by the ruling family in Singapore, the Lee family), is almost definitely the main choice when Apple was looking, many months ago, for a mobile operator to launch the iPhone 3G in Singapore. Furthermore, Singtel, with a large number of subsidaries in Southeast Asia and Australia (Optus Group), will give Apple the benefit of being able to sell to a large number of SEAsian countries while working with just one operator in the region. Which is why it was not surprising when the news broke that Singtel had secured the rights to sell and distribute the iPhone 3G in Singapore, during the Stevenote at WWDC 2008.
Since then, however, there has been a spade of unconfirmed news from a few very trustworthy sources that Singtel will not, as Steve said, sell the iPhone 3G for only USD 199 in Singapore. Instead, these sources claimed, the iPhone 3G will be sold totally unsubsidized, coupled with a contract and a Singtel data plan, and will retail for about 500 to 1000SGD, which makes it around 370USD to 720USD, two to four times the price of the original iPhone 3G.
While there have been news and rumors that other operators such as AT&T will be offering the iPhone 3G unsubsidized and without a contract for a higher price, the case with Singtel has been that they will be selling for a higher price anyway, even with a contract and a data plan. The excuse here seems to be that mobile phones, especially smart phones, are in the range of 1000-1500SGD in Singapore anyway, and according to sources Singtel apparently thought that it makes no business sense to be selling the iPhone that cheap in a country where most people treat mobile phones as a status symbol. Singaporeans are constantly on the lookout for better and more expensive phones to buy, and most Singaporeans change mobile phones on a 6-months basis.
While the majority of this report is based on nothing but unofficial rumors, to most Singaporeans this(iPhones priced at 1000SGD) is definitely a scenario that is highly possible, and while most Singaporeans will cringe at the price set by Singtel, there will still be many of us who will shell out the additional dollars for the iPhone, especially since it is now almost impossible to buy an iPhone from another country without first signing a contract and activating the iPhone, largely stopping all possible illegal hacking by the iPhone jailbreaking community.
Looks like Singtel will be the big winner here.
A close peek at the iTunes page shows that the pricing for iPod games, music and videos to be stated in SGD, as well as having GST included.
Looks like iTunes Store is coming to Singapore, together with the App Store.
This is believed to be pretty reliable.This is utter crap. Much of the Macosphere was fooled.
The new iPhone will be thinner and will be availablein 2 colors, black and red, as shown in the picture below. It will also have video chat via iChat.
And the surprising news will be, iChat will be launched for Windows as well. “Now available for iPhone-and Windows!”
TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) reports that OS X 10.6 will be announced and seeded at WWDC, and the Macrumor forums get flooded with stupid reactions saying that Jan 09 is way too fast to release 10.6.
Are these people morons or idiots? Or recent switchers?
10.6 for a Jan 09 release is just right. And the people who complained that Apple cannot make decent software in 14 months are dumb. Did we have a lot of problems when Tiger came out within 12 months after Panther did? Leopard was a different case scenario because much of the code base was modified and changed, and you can even consider Leopard to be a much different OS than previous OS X versions were. 10.6 will be a version that builds onto the foundation that was created with Leopard.
Now, I wonder which cat will 10.6 be named after?
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