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Just One More Sleepless Night?

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also i picked 10 seconds because i thought of it as a good time refreshing to fast could cause you not to se the sites content if the time should be speeded up tell me and i will. also i don't mind beej

Tubescan
 
Originally posted by Androo
If any Apple folks are reading this (which I do assume they are) ... I am a lowly PC user who has been attracted recently to the Mac world ...
...Please know that your marketing IS working and that you've improved the company so much in the past two years that even I of all people am attracted...I have never even owned a Mac and I am sitting here at 3AM refreshing the frontpage of apple.com waiting for a teaser that shall never come. Is that not sad or what?
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Androo, that brought tears to my eyes. You're a good egg in my book. : )


1 Day to Macworld San Francisco
Androo, We've got a Front Row Seat for You
 
OK, I'm off to do something useful. But my Mac is going to beep like crazy when there's a change!

Bye bye all, I hope you're not up for too much longer! :)
 
Countdown?

Just to screw with everyone, they might leave this message up till tomorrow at 9am(Pacific) then switch over to a 24 hour countdown.

They could have a message below teh countdown that changes every ten minutes so the die-hards can't get any sleep before the keynote!!
 
there is nothing of the sort up!

at least now you all are saying it is... you kids need to lay off the puff late at night!
 
They're waiting until 9 a.m.

I'm guessing that they want to be "exact" about the 1-day to go headline, and thus will wait until 9 a.m. PST to post the new head line...

Just a thought...
 
I agree with BSales - we'll probably see an update @ 9:00PT... I bet that Apple are trying to trick spymac.com into reporting that it will be the one more sleepless night slogan, they've probably got 2 incase 1 leaked, i'd imagine (especially after what spymac did yesterday)...
 
Macrumors Forums Audience: "Hey, look, if you keep refreshing the page, it switches back and forth from the old slogan to the new one!"

Apple Web Team: "Hey, look, if we keep switching the slogan back and forth, the posting rate at Macrumors shoots through the roof!"

Actually, I haven't seen anybody mention what I take to be the significance of "just one more sleepless night," namely that Steve has a history of pulling all-nighters the night before a Macworld keynote.
 
Originally posted by voicegy
Androo, that brought tears to my eyes. You're a good egg in my book. : )
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Thanx. PCs have their strong points ... they're cheap, they have power, a good deal of the technology placed in Macs comes from PC industry momentum and development. PCs are where you go if you're a gamer, where you go if you want loads of softare, where you go if you really want to dive in and learn the ins and outs of computing. PC hardware is just great.

Windows also has its strong points (if you ignore the entire 9x series of utter crap). W2K and XP are rock solid, the interface is comfortable for the experienced user and newbie alike. No OS in the world has been keyboarded like Windows ... I can do EVERYTHING without my mouse. Whatever you may have heard or seen can hardly outweigh why I think Windows is great (though I do believe Microsoft is too 'hey, let's take over that market!' nowadays).

My problem with Windows is that there's no joy in it. It's all substance and no style. It does everything well but nothing pretty. It's the dandylion in the garden, it's meant to survive and nothing more.

Though I have little experience with MacOSX ... it's a BSD with a decent interface, my holy grail of sort. Its only in its infancy and already has Apple shown that within a few months it can improve drastically. Just think of what it will become in two years. I've never owned a Mac, but I can't wait.

 
I pulled this one out of my ass:

Dear Mac Users,

We here at Slymac.com respectfully resent recent comments about the authenticity of our iWalk footage. I mean, come on folks. That thing is so real it's not even funny. Well, the screen does jiggle a bit. And *maybe* there's a problem with the video... But it's real! Honest. Yah, we even have an inside source from this guy named Jobs. Steve Jobs. Except his name's not really Steve Jobs. Actually, it's more like Steve Wong.

Well, we'll see come opening day who's right or not. Don't come crawling back to us when we prove all ye unfaithful wong.

Oh, and we also have the uncensored gay porn video of Bill Gates doing Steve Balmer. "Oh you big boy! Who's your daddy!" Ever notice how he walks sort of funny?
For real! You'll need to register $100 first though.

Get it quick before we claim we got a cease an desist order from Apple!

Yours resentfully,

Spermbank.com


 
yeah, i agree with the whole keyboarding in windows
but it's just so damn annoying when you try to install win98 without a mouse and you get to that one set of radio buttons that is not "keyboarded" and you realize that you have to restart to plug in a mouse (ps2)
 
Originally posted by macfreek57
yeah, i agree with the whole keyboarding in windows
but it's just so damn annoying when you try to install win98 without a mouse and you get to that one set of radio buttons that is not "keyboarded" and you realize that you have to restart to plug in a mouse (ps2)
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Never had that problem before. Though, as I said, forget all the Windows 9x crud. Those years were horrid.
 
"Just one more Sleepless Night" just showed up!!!

I don't think they screwed up... they made me stay up another 2 hours so the punch line would mean more. How did they know I stay up late??? Get that camera out of my room Apple.

Good night, folks. Thanks for the fun.
 
the new thread

new thred just showed up on the main page some one as though apple just stretched it out and when i say it i was even more happy.

good job apple

Tubescan
 
Just 14,022,920,927,854,920 nanoseconds to go!!!!!



Right.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................NOW!
 
Re: This is *Not* tonights message!!!

Originally posted by nawk
Look at the html source on http://www.apple.com/home

The ALT description for the graphic is

ALT="For the web team..."

I think they are refering to the web guys who are changing the message each night !!!!
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Put it together, and you get:
"Just one more sleepless night, for the web team."

It's live now and the ALT tag is still the same, so this is what it's supposed to mean.

A message in a message.
 
Androo - Happy to hear you're going to become a mac user soon :) One thing, though - I have to disagree that WinXP and Win2K are "rock solid"... I'm running a PC with WinXP on it and I've eXPerienced a lot more crashes than compared to Mac OS X. It's a lot better than 9x in terms of stability and efficiency but XP's like you've got bill gates watching over your shoulder with their rather invasive spyware... You buy an OS, so you don't eXPect ads for microsoft in it... Oh well, you'll have a mac soon...
 
Apple + 802.11a + Sony

I've read too many wild guesses in the past few days.
Why don't we just calm down and think about what kind of
"revolutionary" products actually make sense for Apple.

1) Flat-panel iMac:

Of course. Almost cliche.

2) 802.11a Wireless LAN:

Remember Apple was the first to adopt 802.11b (AirPort)?
802.11a is 5-10 times faster and less prone to interference.
It can enable all sorts of home entertainment applications,
and make your Mac a true "digital hub". Your Mac will play
music/DVD/HDTV on your stereo/TV. Or even better, multiple
"terminals" can share your dual-processor PowerMac through
wireless connections, and freely move about your home.

Microsoft is trying to do the same thing (eHome) with
802.11b - typical MS lack of technical leadership.

3) Alliance with Sony:

Microsoft entered the game console market with its Xbox,
and they won't stop there. It's logical for Sony to team
up with Apple. PlayStation2 can be part of Apple's version
of eHome. Sony can also develop more iDevice with Apple.

It may even happen that Apple will license the x86
version of OS X exclusively to Sony. This way Apple can
broaden its reach while guaranteeing that OS X won't be
associated with any dumb PC box, because Sony is also good
at designing cool products.

4) Voice/handwriting recognition:

Microsoft's monopoly is essentially the monopoly on user
interface, as well as applications. There is a downside of
this monopoly, howerver. It has to make sure any new
version of their OS is backward compatible, otherwise they
risk losing customers.

On the other hand, Apple has a small, yet very loyal, user
base. It can afford to have a revolutionary new OS, such
as OS X which is not exactly backward compatible.

A paradigm-shifting new user interface, such as voice or
handwriting, will shake the status quo of the OS market.
This will definitely benefit Apple, at the expense of MS.
Even if Apple can't do it this year, they should do it as
soon as possible.

5) 2GHz G5 and/or G4

This actually depends on Motorola, not Apple. Given the
recent, and perpetual, turmoil at Motorola SPS, I don't
have high hopes. I will be glad to be proven wrong, though.

If I were Steve Jobs, I won't bet my business on any single
provider. Porting OS X to x86 platform is probably a good
backup plan. Or maybe IBM has something.
 
What does all this mean?

To Spearhead:

"1) Flat-panel iMac:"

I agree - will it detach and actually be a tablet is the question - most tablet PC marketing touts it as the "evolution" of the laptop.

"2) 802.11a Wireless LAN:"

Actually the installed base of 802.11b is so huge and the chip costs to x.11a so much higher most people are happy with the cheaper x.11b - not much a sound business choice there - sure Apple gets to say they were first but it's not like when AirPort moved into a vaccuum.

"3) Alliance with Sony:"

Remember Sony is the gorilla here. They lead in the game console industry and have spent millions on keeping that lead with the PlayStation 3. They don't need Apple for that.

And the game console industry already has M$, Nintendo and Sony. Apple is going to take one those three??? Not likely.
We are not talking high-end MP3 player, game consoles go on price and number of games available. Nothing Apple does is cheap.

Don't get me wrong you get what you pay for but as a business model, selling the most expensive game console in this economy is not insanely great.

Lastly, I don't think we will ever see OSX on an intel platform with Apple blessings, it will be the deathknell for Apple Hardware and Software Development

"4) Voice/handwriting recognition:"

This is a holy grail for so many companies yet speech input is available to both Mac and Windows users now. How many use it? Sure it sucks on both so no one uses it but then what do we use computers for now any way? Word processing - if you are my secretary maybe or a kid doing a report (for my kids it's about 1/2 of 1% of their time on-line or computing) - so is voice really needed - not enough for me to go out and spend $1000s. Handwriting? - not on something I can't hold in my hand.
As a user I need two things to free me from the chain's of Microsoft - I need an Apple replacement for Exchange Server - not just email, calendering, tasks, contacts - the whole group ware thing. And I don't want to hire an IT staff to run SendMail, OpenLDAP, et al to get it. One easy interface the Apple way. And I need it with me anywhere, anytime. I have AirPorts at my home and office and I have broadband connections at both. Now I need Apple to give me solutions to use those. A hand held is crucial - different sizes, 3x5 card metaphor for messaging and lists and 6x10 for reading, writing and annotating.

"5) 2GHz G5 and/or G4"

Sorry Motorola just can't deliver on this.

UbiComp - check out HP's http://www.cooltown.com

A real vision is for Apple which started the PERSONAL computer revolution is to lead us into the UBIQUITOUS computer revolution. Once again, Xerox PARC started it, can Apple deliver it to the rest of us?
 
Following on the Apple COMPUTER post

Ok so the above post reflects what I need and think from and about Apple COMPUTERS - what about Apple Inc.,

I would love to have a box to put into my home theatre -
just as the iPod represents the best in personal audio -
I'd love to see Apple Home Devices address personal video -
DTR a la TiVo are hot just as MP3 players are -
wired and wireless home numbers are rising -
DV camcorders are everywhere as are DVD players -

So merge them all, a box that:

1. Plays and rips DVDs to QuickTime 6
2. Plays and rips CDs
3. Inputs home camcorder footage via FireWire
4. Stream it or at least the directory of it over an Ethernet, Airport or FireWire connection to
5. Control it from an Mac desktop, laptop or HANDHELD
6. Play it all through optical audio or progressive scan HD video home surround sound systems

That would be pretty revolutionary.
 
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