iPhone & Apple TV vs. PocketPC & Blackberry


Yesterday's Macworld keynote had some awfully cool stuff. The iPhone looks phenomenal. I'm not surprised the stock surged $7 a share. It's up another $5 this morning. Apple's design and R&D staff are unbeatable.

Which brings me to the tale of the PocketPC. I had to install the driver for a Wireless CF card for a friend's Dell Axim A5 this weekend. What a pain in the ass. YugoPC.

How can a company like Microsoft, that is so incredibly wealthy and huge, put out such a terrible product? It makes me wonder. Do they have anyone try things out before they release them? Focus groups, etc.? Something as simple as deleting a network location is like pulling teeth. At least they could have written up something for their help program. They just do not get it. The Austro-Hungarian Empire of technology. Christ Almighty.

Moving on. I watched a few of the short movies Apple has up demonstrating what the iPhone can do. I'm looking forward to seeing what the possibilities for scripting will be. I definitely want one of those babies. The advanced technology in there. Not just one thing, but a slew of them. Damn! Apple gets it. Nobody else comes close. Apple makes Blackberries look like Speak & Spells.

The Apple TV. Looks and sounds great. Not too pricey either. Too bad it's asking for a hi def TV, and I won't be getting HDTV for another year or so.

Posted: Wed - January 10, 2007 at 12:18 PM      

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