This week, Myke and I discuss roller coasters, which I don’t ride to an issue with … well … puking.
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Be sure to check out the corresponding episode of Off the Record, in which we complain about Skype and Myke makes up stories about me.
My iPhone 4 is less than a year old1, and since I can’t upgrade at the subsidized price for some time, I’ve been pondering purchasing AppleCare for it.
However, when I went to Apple’s online store, I could only locate AppleCare+ for the iPhone 4S.
After chatting with a nice guy named Sean on Apple’s online store support page, I learned that while normal, old-fashioned iPhone AppleCare isn’t available at online for “individual purchases” anymore. However, it can be purchased over at the phone, at 1–800–694–6466
As all CDMA iPhone 4s are. ↩︎
Big congrats to these guys on the new site. It feels much more like a magazine than any other website I’ve visited recently.
As someone who has always adored the old box Broncos, this makes me very happy.
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I bet we’ll see a minor Mac Pro update to use the E5 CPUs whenever they’re available (probably within the next few months). But it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s the last Mac Pro. It had a great run, but the tower is over.
I’ve been interested recently in the apps available for iOS that push the very edges of what we thought was possible on a mobile device. Informed by my recent experience of spending a week on iOS alone, I decided to try and express what I mean by “ambitious” and to collect some examples of those kind of apps.
When iOS first appeared, it was a smartphone OS. Today, with the iPad, it’s much more than that. To be an “ambitious” iOS app, I think you need to be doing one or more of the following things…
What a great list. Be sure to check out his public spreadsheet as well.
Despite the coming availability of a new generation of Sandy Bridge desktop CPUs suitable for advancing Apple’s Mac Pro line, the company has reportedly been evaluating whether to continue to invest in furthering its full-sized workstation line beyond this year in the face of limited sales.
Although the Mac maker has reportedly developed a revision to the existing Mac Pro that may or may not see the light of day, people familiar with the matter said management as far back as May of 2011 were in limbo over whether to pour any additional resources into the product line.
As a Mac Pro user (at work, at least), I am sad — but not surprised — at this rumor.
People buy Mac Pros for two reasons:
Those of us who use Mac Pro to crunch video and audio know it to be a workhorse machine. We bought the low-end model last year, and it still smokes most machines in the office. However, most people don’t really need a Mac Pro, now that the Intel’s i7 chips can be found in MacBook Pros, iMacs and Mac minis. The more powerful Macs have become, the more marginalized the Mac Pro has become.
Thunderbolt may be the killer of the Mac Pro. If external PCI-E cards become available, and prices on external Thunder-bolt RAIDs come down, the massive shell of the Mac Pro won’t be needed anymore.
The reality is, however, that most people never max out their Mac Pro’s internal storage or card bays. So maybe this reason isn’t as important as it once was.
There will always be edge cases — people who really do need wring out every ounce of power and flexibility of a machine. However, Apple is more and more focusing on meeting the needs of the majority. Depending on how far the company pushes that mindset, the Mac Pro may some become a memory.
I, for one, would be sad.
The Pew Research Center has found that tablets are changing the way people read news:
Consuming news (everything from the latest headlines to in-depth articles and commentary) ranks as one of the most popular activities on the tablet, about as popular as sending and receiving email (54% email daily on their tablet), and more popular than social networking (39%), gaming (30%), reading books (17%) or watching movies and videos (13%). The only activity that people said they were more likely to do on their tablet computer daily is browse the web generally (67%).
The survey also finds that three-in-ten tablet news users (defined for this study as the 77% of all tablet users who get news at least weekly) say they now spend more time getting news than they did before they had their tablet. Just 4% say they spend less time while two-thirds (65%) spend about the same amount of time.
A third (33%) of tablet news users say they are turning to new sources for news on their tablet, sources they had not turned to on other platforms such as television or their desktop computer. And, more than four in ten (42%) say they regularly read in-depth news articles and analysis on their tablet.
If you want to sit down and play Angry Birds (or Trainyard – seriously, you should play Trainyard) then sit down and play Angry Birds. But don’t use Angry Birds or whatever else you can think of to occupy your mind when it might otherwise be accomplishing something.
Bingo.