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App Store Uncool to Girlfriend
written 26 Jul 2008 in the earliest morning
Two problems i’m having with the App Store: 1.) When I download or update apps, all of my icons on my various screens get rearranged, seemingly without logic (ie. some apps just get tacked onto the first empty space, others stuffed in somewhere randomly). Annoying when you want to have things in some type of order for easy sorting.
2.) You can’t hide native Apple apps, like Stocks or Contacts. Seriously, WTF is contacts its own app for?
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The Thing About iPhone 2.0 Apps is…
While all of the hype around iPhone’s 2.0 software and how it is likely going to save the rainforests and prevent little old ladies from dying and whatnot is well-deserved, in my awesome opinion, their does seem to be one slight bummer with what I see with the apps thus far: they’re very limited in what they can do to the OS itself.
The Thing About Microsoft is…
Microsoft just recently admitted making mistakes when Vista was released, stating that “We broke a lot of things.” and “There’s a conversation going on in the marketplace today and it’s just plain awful.”
We broke a lot of things.
The conversation referred to is presumably the one where word of mouth is spreading Vista’s incompatibility with many devices and the general feeling of the new OS being a step back from XP. It might also include the conversation where many users, as much as 40% of current college students, are deciding that rather than upgrading to Vista ($130 – $220 depending on the version) they’re going to shell out for a new Mac (who’s computers are now only about $500 more expensive and who’s OS upgrades are only around $80.) Apple’s market share (for Macs) is up to almost 8% (from less than 1% in the late 90′s). Corporations (especially in China) are switching to Linux more and more often. Firefox has as much as 41% of the browser market, which just a few years ago was all but completely dominated by Internet Explorer.
So what happened, and what’s going to happen?
iTunes Should Manage Pictures
On a Mac, iTunes should manage pictures as it manages your music, video, and podcasts. Perhaps just integrate iPhoto into iTunes and ditch the other application altogether. It’s incredibly annoying that everytime I plug my phone in it opens iPhoto and asks me to import my pictures, not only because it tries to import every single picture every single time, instead of just knowing what the new pics are, but also because, well…what’s the point? iTunes is supposed to be a music player, but as it can handle PDFs (typically for enhanced albums that come with some artwork) and all types of movies, it’s basically just one step away from being able to load up a bunch of jpegs.
Mac Anorexia
Shocking footage of the influences of the MacBook Air on your average laptop’s self esteem. “Other laptops see these MacBook Airs and think that’s what a laptop is supposed to look like. It’s just not realistic if you’re not a super model computer.”
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