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June 19, 2008 at 10:49 am · Filed under fun, it
I wandered down to the Sydney Apple Store opening queue. Yes, there’s only 4 hours to go now before people get their chance to walk the polished boards, gaze outwards from the steel-bracketed glass facade, and to ask premature questions about iPhone 3G.
I lent @decryption my spare MacBook Pro 15″ battery: he’s number 8 in the queue, which means he’s had a large number of cold hours sitting on a foldout chair.
The second part of the queue heads west up King Street, and probably takes the number of people well over 50.
The store looks great. I’m from a family of architects and designers, and I feel the building’s remodeling has a nice 2007/2008 feel, with some French/German modern glass-and-steel aesthetic thrown in. Being directly opposite the Telstra T-Life store is a masterstroke for design, town planning, marketing and sale potential.
The TV crews are there, just cooling their heels inbetween breakfast TV live crosses, and small magazine-style pieces about the type of geek who would camp out for a t-shirt and the chance to perhaps see Mr. Jobs who is rumoured to appear. Yes, it’s most surely just a rumour right now. If he steps off his jet this morning and appears at the ExecuJet terminal, I’ll try to let you know.
I chatted to a a few people while I sarcastically wore my ten-year-old Rhapsody Developer t-shirt: everyone was in great spirits, including the security staff.
March 8, 2007 at 2:03 pm · Filed under it, media
I tried to not go too far with the headline pun.
Extending from The Way Of Sony, the manufacturer has announced “real, actual” availability of BIVL.
BRAVIA™ Internet Video Link clips onto the back of selected TVs, and brings the content linking/downloading scenario of The Sony full-circle.
I was shown the design for a similar concept, whereby an entire HD IPTV Set Top Box and PVR could be slid in, as a board, to a manufacturer’s LCD panels. Not released yet, of course…
And I still have not seen Neotion’s enabler hardware.
Take yesterday’s comments on how to make “New TV”, and add the BIVL, and you might have a real, actual platform. As long as it’s not a closed, Sony-only platform.
[Via engadgetHD]
January 10, 2007 at 9:56 am · Filed under it, mobile, music
Given that I now will work feverishly to obtain one on launch day, they have obviously got the mix right.
It’s equal parts widescreen iPod, PDA-computer hybrid and phone with an operating system that doesn’t suck.
My previous forays into PalmPilots with GSM jackets, Newton MessagePad 2100s with GPRS cards, and Symbian Series 60 have all been leading to this point.
As long as they don’t count Australia as Asia, which means a 2008 launch date for the masses, I can see a lot of people dropping Windows Mobile smartphones quick-smart.
January 3, 2007 at 11:12 am · Filed under it, media
I’d say that PCs and TVs have been flirting, and quite possibly canoodling, for some time.
Joanne Ostrow, whose sub-editor had the great idea to use the phrase will change the way we live, posted this article two days ahead of the usual schedule. Her predictions for 2007 are real!
You’ve heard the predictions before, but this time they [consumer electronics manufacturers] really mean it.
Keyword, and buzzword, laden this potted copy-and-paste doesn’t tell digitalmediaphiles a lot they didn’t already know. Nor does it help Joe Average navigate the digital media landscape that is just outside the livingroom door.
Reverse anachronism (I don’t know the right word) steps in, predictably in a predictions piece:
The notion of how you discover programs will change, too. Channel surfing will become overwhelming with far too many choices to sample. Expect to see different navigation cues pop up to let you know what’s on, specifically of interest to you.
No.
Cues to relevance, to relationships, to currency and to community will help you navigate.
People already know what is on: they need to determine why it’s on, where it came from, what it’s like, and what exists around it or its topic.
December 2, 2006 at 9:02 pm · Filed under fun, it, media
Some of the language might be considered (mildly) Not Safe For Work, but this sounds just like the conversation two teenaged acquaintances had with me at the weekend.
Console supremacy wars roll around again!
Only one console will do this for you:
Speeds pace of evolution if touched
Read the article to find out which one.
Or read this post to see what might happen…uhh…to you…
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