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Steve Jobs on WWDC Announcements: 'You Won't Be Disappointed'

Reed Rothchild said:
I think you're correct. Well observed!

Is this some personal rule of yours that consonants can't be preceded by the indefinite article an? You should patent it!
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I'm just guessing, and I don't remember any specific rule, but I believe one says "an" when the next word begins with a soft consonant, like "honor", rather than a hard consonant like "ham". It's just an auditory distinction between words that might otherwise sound a little funny when spoken, i.e. uh onor.

In addition, when acronyms are used, you go by the sound of the first letter, so it would be "an HDTV" versus "a BRD"...the letter H when pronounced starts with what we would recognize as a vowel sound, like "aitch", so you use "an"
 
Ways for apple to shine at wwdc

1- introduce new iphone with multiple american carriers models
2- introduce new apple tv, with actual app store and opened up abilities. ie able to do amazon vod, netflix vod, skype with video, ichat with video, oh yeah and games
3- Embrace Blu-ray tech
4- new mac pro and monitors
5- actual television with apple tv integrated. and camera.
 
HiRez said:
I'm sure Apple's new iPhone is going to rock. But there's a couple big things they're really behind on:

1. Carrier. AT&T sucks, but you knew that.

2. Cloud services. Here's where Apple is really lagging behind Android (and possibly even WebOS/HP). They've had a basic infrastructure for years with Dot Mac/Mobile Me but they've let it languish. Never really fixed it or expanded it (syncing iDisk is still to this day nototiously slow and buggy with frequent and unhelpful "Sync failed, please try again later" messages). They need to make Mobile Me a free, built-in service for all iPhoneOS devices and get their crap together. Additionally, they need to move quickly to over the air syncing and drop the dependence on the iTunes/desktop PC umbilical cord. I understand some of the business reasons they want to hold onto this model, but it feels like a desperate move. Clinging to the past has never served Apple well, and it certainly won't with mobile devices. They have the resources and infrastructure to do cloud services and wireless syncing well, but they need to really commit to it 100%.
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Your point 1, only affects certain users in the USA.

But the iPhone is pretty much sold worldwide on different carrier networks... Why do some americans think they are the only country which exist in the world?
 
Bottom line is: IT'S TIME TO RAZE THE GOOGLE BUILDING TO THE GROUND!

Fake "good", fake "innovation", fake "openness", fake "privacy"...they are almost getting to the point where MS looks better.

GOOGLE IS DEAD. AND I DON'T CARE.
 
macsmurf said:
Here's one who believes that Apple invented the GUI: ...

Here's one who believes he is right: ...

The other day, I recall someone suggesting that Apple invented the mouse. :D
Seriously, give it a few years, and fanboys will believe that Apple invented the telephone. Which, of course, they did. Alexander Graham Bell was such a poser.
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Lol. You got me cornered - you really found quotes....
hmmmm...eeehh....arghhh... point taken...:eek:
 
BRLawyer said:
Bottom line is: IT'S TIME TO RAZE THE GOOGLE BUILDING TO THE GROUND!

Fake "good", fake "innovation", fake "openness", fake "privacy"...they are almost getting to the point where MS looks better.

GOOGLE IS DEAD. AND I DON'T CARE.
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Lol, over-react much?
 
mdntcallr said:
Ways for apple to shine at wwdc

1- introduce new iphone with multiple american carriers models
2- introduce new apple tv, with actual app store and opened up abilities. ie able to do amazon vod, netflix vod, skype with video, ichat with video, oh yeah and games
3- Embrace Blu-ray tech
4- new mac pro and monitors
5- actual television with apple tv integrated. and camera.
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I'd love to see some new hardware other than the iphone, but I have doubts as to whether WWDC will be the stage for it.
 
kdarling said:
Your calculations are off.

The "8 million" iPhones was worldwide sales, not just on ATT, who reported activating 2.7 million iPhones, of which perhaps a quarter were hand me downs.
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Please Please Please don't forget the service units as well, which Apple also counts as shipping units since they are sku'd and inventoried into each individual retail store's stock.

You are correct otherwise. Every person with an iPhone, (and I would put myself in this list if I had one) seems to upgrade to the next version every year. Those 8 million phones aren't new customers, and I would put money on many of the phones just being units shipped as opposed to units sold.
 
Alleluia Brother / Sister!

mdntcallr said:
Ways for apple to shine at wwdc

1- introduce new iphone with multiple american carriers models
2- introduce new apple tv, with actual app store and opened up abilities. ie able to do amazon vod, netflix vod, skype with video, ichat with video, oh yeah and games
3- Embrace Blu-ray tech
4- new mac pro and monitors
5- actual television with apple tv integrated. and camera.
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Someone with his/her head on their shoulders!

- Mac Pro is long Overdue BUT i do not see any announcement at WWDC... May be the following week through a web site update...
- Monitor same; I still use the ADC 30" since 2004
- Not too crazy about VZW... Was on VZW prior to the Iphone and their service is as bad as AT&T
 
Wtf?

According to the email headers, why is he talking sh*t about Google when he's using a gmail account?

And I would expect that someone emailing one of the most influential people in the technology industry would use a bit more common sense and appropriate language in their email. :confused:
 
Winni said:
Promises are cheap, especially when there's no punishment for not keeping them. And with every new "sent from my iPhone" mail that's being published I more and more believe that Apple is run by a five-year old megalomanic.
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How ridiculous. What would you have him say? I'm curious to know. Would you prefer he said, "you're going to be severely disappointed. Sent from my iPhone."

Or would you expect a longer email, since I'm sure no one else emails him he's got all the time in the world to craft a longer response.

Perhaps it's all a ruse and this email address is actually managed by his staff (this is my assumption - it happens in other companies - I know Twitter accounts that are run by PR agencies on someone's behalf, though they never disclose it).
 
macUser2007 said:
Yo Briana, I am actually curious about your experience with the Desire (it's basically a slightly lower-end version of the Incredible, right?) Where can we read about your (biased?) experience?

I am actually looking to dump my 3Gs and jump on the Android bandwagon, but want something with a larger screen and OS 2.2. The EVO looks promising, but it's 2.1 and I am hoping for Tegra2 or Atom D6 in a few months.
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Wow, I couldn't think of a more appropriate forum to discuss that.
 
Winni said:
Promises are cheap, especially when there's no punishment for not keeping them. And with every new "sent from my iPhone" mail that's being published I more and more believe that Apple is run by a five-year old megalomanic.
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Megalomanic...probably. But 5 year old...come on, he likes the iToys he developed...shouldn't he?
 
macsmurf said:
It's not really my definition. I don't know where you got your definition but it wasn't dictionary.com as you claimed. Why lie?
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This was taken from Dictionary.com:

–noun
1. an ornamental recess in a wall or the like, usually semicircular in plan and arched, as for a statue or other decorative object.
2. a place or position suitable or appropriate for a person or thing: to find one's niche in the business world.
3. a distinct segment of a market.
4. Ecology . the position or function of an organism in a community of plants and animals.
–adjective
5. pertaining to or intended for a market niche; having specific appeal: niche advertising.
–verb (used with object)
6. to place (something) in a niche.

I'd suggest you double-checking what you say before calling me a liar or saying I lied. If you STILL don't believe me, then the link is http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/niche


macsmurf said:
Neither the server market nor the embedded devices market are small. In fact, they are very very large. Linux is not a niche product. Deal.
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Being "niche" does not mean it is small. It NORMALLY means that, but doesn't mean it. It means it's specific. If you check the posted definitions, you see on number 5 as "having a specific appeal".
 
Blues003 said:
Being "niche" does not mean it is small. It NORMALLY means that, but doesn't mean it. It means it's specific. If you check the posted definitions, you see on number 5 as "having a specific appeal".
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Linux is anything but niche. It has far more applications than any other OS, it's in watches, servers, televisions, home desktops, business computers, etc. Just because the number of home users are small does not make it niche.

Man, you got beat by your own definition.
 
jaykk said:
May be he is introducing MBA with A4 chip in it :) After, WWDC, we will see a bunch of netbooks with ARM chip from other manufacturers.
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A4? What and have RISC and CISC versions of OSX again just after they killed RISC? Can we hope for the G5 too?
 
phone annoucement

Yeah i think its going to be the new iphone announcement. But hey could Jobs have something else up his sleeve? The imask perhaps.
 
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