Apple is on track for WWDC 08 in June. No delays this year as had been perviously rumored.
(Via TUAW.)
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Horray, No delay: Apple announces WWDC 08 dates
Great customer service never rests: Apple Retails(obviously)
Andy Sack on his Apple Store experience:
I went to the Apple store yesterday. I was truly impressed. As I was leaving the store, I saw one of the employees there approach a customer leaving at the same time. The employee said, “excuse Mam, I’m one of the managers here and I noticed that you were [...]
iPhone’s SDK biggest drawback: no multitasking
There two things that have bugged me from the iPhone SDK announcement:
-No InterfaceBuilder for the iPhone yet (you can still code it, so it’s just an inconvenience)
-Third party apps can’t run in the background.
I love the Mac, because all apps are created equal. But the iPhone(at least for now) will treat third party apps like [...]
How important is the SDK announcement tomorrow?
Consider this: Michael Arrington hasn’t live blogged any event in a while(that I can recall). This time he is going himself(just a couple of miles anyway) to report on the iPhone’s SDK announcement as per his twitter account:
I don’t really care about Arrington reporting it, and it might even be irrelevant(I just wanted to mention [...]
Go to an Apple Store and get laid?
Cosmos article on “The Best Place to Meet Single Guys“:
Hot spot: The Apple store
The draw: Most guys are natural gadget lovers, and with sales of iPods and MacBooks skyrocketing, more men than ever are stopping by Apple boutiques. The vibe at the stores is conducive to man meeting too: You can check your email among [...]
Microsoft’s Greatest Hits: Top 5 internal e-mails
Seattle PI on Microsoft’s greatest internal email hits. One of my favorite quoutes is Jim Allchin’s 2004 comment:
I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.
More funny emails like this at Valleywag:
No one really believed we would ever ship[Vista].
Blogshphere Bashers
A blogger named M.B. Darden wrote an article about his first experience at an Apple Store. The interesting thing is his follow up article where he comments on people’s comments(insults). I don’t advocate this kind of behavior at all, but I have to hand it to this really weird anonymous coward’s comment:
your light gray font [...]
New MacBook and MacBook Pros: No exterior change!
Apple today released an update for their Macbooks and MacBook Pro laptops. The MBP now include MultiTouch trackpads and a very nice set of hardware upgrades like 200 GB standard HD.
My only concern is the MacBook Pro’s casing which hasn’t changed much since the G4 PowerBook. It sucks that I have owned three Apple laptops [...]
Dell purchasing experience….not quite like Macs
Here is what you get for trying to buy a Dell:
(The full 6 min version…well worth it)
According to comments, this happened after Dell slashed call center pay rates and cancelled employee stock option plans.
The Mac experience starts at the store, phone call or website. And that’s what makes a Mac a Mac.
Mac Pride
I just got a call from a family member that recently switched to a Mac. They took over 200 pictures yesterday and were resizing them to upload them to facebook. The managed to do 20 pictures in a couple of hours using Photoshop.
They called me because of some trouble they were having uploading pics [...]