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Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

Christopher Coulter — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 14:13:55 -0000

Cuckoo, got me thinking of the 'The Midwich Cuckoos', per John Carpenter's (and David Himmelstein's) 'Village of the Damned' remake. Appleites meet the Scobleizer Griswalds.

The Appleites in their trademarked white hair and cobalt eyes, are using their supernatural and telepathic powers to draw energy away from the post-Microsoft lifeforces. They have internal-visionary located the lifeforces in a remote Montana town.

Meanwhile, the Scobleizer limo-sized station-wagon criss-crosses the country, video cameras in tow, searching for the perfect internet Wally World, amusement, and away from civilization, just not too far. Clark Scoble, eternal optimist, yet hopelessly bumbling, stops in Montana for a rest (reboot), before romping onto the next tourist stop, world's largest ball of Cat5 cable twine. But they won't make it...

"If we coexist, we shall dominate you. That is inevitable. Eventually you will try to eliminate us. We are all creatures of the life force. Now it was set us at one another to see who will survive."

PS - Ok ok ok, lame, but playing Karim's game. ;)

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

angelosaxon — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:53:32 -0000

Great post

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

LayZ — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:29:35 -0000

@60. Perfect!!!!

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

John C. Welch — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:11:42 -0000

Right. Because ACL support is "just panther with spotlight, konfabulator, and Automator".

Maybe you don't know all the differences betwen 10.3 and 10.4

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

tom6003 — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:10:46 -0000

"Your first two examples are XP plus a couple of apps. Not major OS releases."

Uh, you mean like, Apple's "major os releases"? Some enhancements to Mail, Safari, iChat, stuff like that? Tiger is just Panther with Spotlight (Freeware on Windows), Konfabulator (Shareware) and Automator (an app). I bought Tiger, and I still wonder why I did that. Feels like Panther to me. Looking at Leopard, I think I'll pass.

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

Karim — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:46:22 -0000

Which should lead you into channeling “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, Karim.

:-) No, I was channeling another Nicholson film (Easy Rider) in another thread, so I think I've hit my monthly quota...

I always wanted to write a sequel to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, though, about how Nicholson's character leaves the hospital post-lobotomy and goes on to have an extraordinarily successful career in politics.

Seems to be a recurring theme: Cuckoo's Nest was written by Ken Kesey, as in "Ken Kesey's Magic Bus" and its LSD-fueled cross-country adventures; the movie Easy Rider which featured a cross-country trip and LSD; and Scoble's Magic Geek Bus trip to Montana, which probably didn't involve any drugs harder than Claritin but did have passengers who were broadband addicts in withdrawal looking to score a little WiFi. "You're either ON the minivan or you're OFF the minivan." "Turn on, tune in, log out."

I think I'm going to put on some Grateful Dead and stare at iTunes visualizations for a while... :-)

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

modernquill — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:16:13 -0000

I must admit, as a first-year college student, I wasn't expecting anything from Apple. I remember when I bought my present iBook back in July 2004, they waited until after the college promotions to update the model. I don't remember what the update was, but it stung to think I should have waited two extra months. In any event, I'm going to wait until 10.5 comes out to buy my next iboo- er, MacBook.

With that in mind, what did Jobs have anything to act impressed with? Not to dismiss the Wired article, but I think we'll see a much more revitalized pagentry when there's something to celebrate.

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

LayZ — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:53:16 -0000

Which should lead you into channeling "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", Karim.

"If Karim doesn't want to take his medication orally, I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way. But I don't think that he would like it."

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

Karim — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:18:46 -0000

I had the same feelings and thoughts reading your last post as I have when I watch Robin Williams get interviewed on the Tonight Show.

"Man, Karim's last three films all sucked!"

I simultaneously feel like laughing and recommending professional help. Probably the latter is the best thing for you (and Robin).

LOL I'll take that as a compliment, thanks... now if you'll excuse me, the nurse is coming down the hall with a tray of meds... ;-)

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

Matsu — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:09:12 -0000

Karim, you remind me a lot of Robin Williams. I had the same feelings and thoughts reading your last post as I have when I watch Robin Williams get interviewed on the Tonight Show. I simultaneously feel like laughing and recommending professional help. Probably the latter is the best thing for you (and Robin).

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

cadtrix — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:59:49 -0000

Yesterday’s announcements by Apple went over like a lead balloon here at Off the Grid Camp (Patrick was totally not excited and even this morning after he got to hear all the news was not as Apple frenzied as usual).

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

Karim — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:21:37 -0000

Apple is a cult.

[author switches to rapid-fire Robin Williams voice]

Ohmygod you're right. How do you leave the cult, anyway? Turn in your black turtleneck? Go to a software developer and ask him to deprogram you? You have to see sharp in order to de-program. [mimes being a robot] Does. not. compute. Oh look that geek in the front row got it. Yes you the one with the Blackberry holster. I do these jokes for myself you know. Keeps me from drinkin'. [mimes downing a shot glass of alcohol, wipes back of hand across mouth] AHHHHhhhh, Mammy! I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a copy of Windows in front of me. [knees on floor, praying] Take me back, Jobs, for I have sinned and seen a Vista! [switches to effeminate voice] And it wasn't of Cupertino! [switches to serious voice] But enough about me and my cult, let's talk about you and the Boy Scouts of America.

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

Karim — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:51:17 -0000

Last I checked sales of the “TabletOS” were barely of 1MM. That’s some MAJOR OS release.

[author switches to Napoleon Dynamite voice]

Yeah! Everyone knows you have to sell like 27 million of anything for it to be considered a major flipping OS release. I told Scoble that like 50 times already but he didn't listen to me. But what do you expect from a guy who sits around in Montana soaking in hot water and blogging all day. Gosh!

I'm going to create my own Linux distro and, like give away 27 million copies so it can be considered a MAJOR OS release. Chicks dig guys who make their own Linux distros. It's going to be pretty freakin sweet.

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

Christopher Coulter — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:18:11 -0000

Tablet and Media Center are but subsets, plus now they are 'integrated' into Vista 2007, so they won't future exist. But I guess the various SKU's could be spin-doctored off as 'major' too. ;)

Apple is a cult. Microsoft is dysfunctional. Either way you lose.

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

LayZ — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:50:43 -0000

TabletPC and Media Center.. .MAJOR OS releases? Are you serious? MAJOR OS releases? MAJOR? As John McEnroe would say.. "You CANNOT be serious!"?

Last I checked sales of the "TabletOS" were barely of 1MM. That's some MAJOR OS release.

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

yourdoctor — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:03:47 -0000

"cause we expect Steve to do something cool everytime he’s on stage."

And...? Your expectations are not reasonable. People like you are proven wrong keynote after keynote. Stop teasing and overhyping, you'll feel better for it. :-P

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

Karim — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:19:51 -0000

it took 2 years for Server 2003 to get any traction because of incompatibilities with your own products.

*cough* Cheetah *cough*

*cough* Puma *cough*

:-)

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

Goebbels — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:52:42 -0000

"In the past five years Microsoft has done major OS releases too. Tablet PC. Media Center. Server 2003."

Your first two examples are XP plus a couple of apps. Not major OS releases. Server 2003 is decent, but XP Server should have been it... and it took 2 years for Server 2003 to get any traction because of incompatibilities with your own products.

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

anon — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:46:36 -0000

I was lead to believe (by multiple sources that I can’t name for obvious reasons) that there’d be a lot more interesting stuff

Bullshitting as usual, Robert.

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

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Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

kjwcode — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:08:26 -0000

Mike@41: Universal binaries have been around since NeXT or before. They're a feature of the Mach-O binary format.

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

Robert Scoble — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:15:56 -0000

Mike: In the past five years Microsoft has done major OS releases too. Tablet PC. Media Center. Server 2003.

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

TomB — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:30:41 -0000

I think 64 bit support is pretty big; after all, it's an area of weakness under Windows.

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

malatmals — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:23:10 -0000

I thought it was pretty revealing when Steve mentioned in the past 5 years Apple had 5 major os releases, rewrote the thing to support intel chips, created universal binaries that support both, and wrote some code that allows you to run XP. All in the span where Microsoft didnt ship a new os. Not to mention the whole hardware development wing - when's dell going to ship a desktop pc with 4 sli slots and 8 dimm slots?

Now while it didn't seem like a lot of new stuff to you maybe - its probably about two-three years worth of new to-do's for microsoft to add to windows 2012.

Re: I’m sorry about Apple hype

Mac — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:39:17 -0000

Scoble stop acting like you have inside sources. You're considered one of the biggest .com wannabes at Apple. One employee here even sent a friend at MSFT a letter sayng "Congratulations on firing Scoble."

With that said, no one any any mid-high level position at Apple would tell you anything.