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Upgrade anyone?

Scott Brown — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:59:48 +0000

This is exactly what I was talking about earlier this week with a buddy. Apple have a product range that’s so pervasive, engaging and functionally rich that people year after year are buying into the ethos. So we’ve seen what…5 years of almost complete digital domination and across that half decade people are will approach various products in waves, some will upgrade religiously, others will hang off…but this just builds potential and momentum so that whatever the Cupertinians roll out will be picked up BY SOMEONE because it’s better than what they have right at that moment…this is the magic of Steve’s legacy. And whether you cynically view this as sheep buying into form over function (blah blah yawn!) ultimately people will use what they end up liking most…and I’ve heard precious few discussions about Apple users frustrated by their lack of flexibility and DRM frustration forsaking their Apple-iness in favour the little green robot…it’s ALL been the other way in fact

Next…?

Scott Brown — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:12:13 +0000

Trying to decide what the next project should be…a dead/nearly dead macbook resurrected and shoved under the telly for dvd and tigery goodness on a big flatscreen OR a mac pro as a home server for our burgeoning apple household to store music and stream movies…hmm. Both I think ?!

iTunes – adrift on a sea of cack?

Scott Brown — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:45:36 +0000

I own an iPod Touch…it’s a great device and all the millions of words that have been written around the web on it, I’m not going to add further on it except to say I think it’s great…but!

iTunes sucks ! It’s the worst bloated sluggish piece of desktop software I’ve seen in the last 5 years. When it updates itself it’s patches are enormous, it loses it’s connections to Apple’s own ‘Remote’ applet on my Touch, it can’t remember where I like to navigate to in the UI as any decent portal should…ugh the list goes on and and on.

Then there’s the content and here the Register comes up trumps ! When the cheaptards continue to keep buying poorly-written, crash-prone, resource-hogging applications “…because they’re only 59p !” where’s the incentive for the gimps that knock these out to really innovate and take this platform to another new level ?

Sigh…

Next time…read the small print

Scott Brown — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:28:10 +0000

Apple has recently polished up it’s Safari for Windows browser codebase into some less reminiscent of an alpha-hackfest (much like it was when i tried their original release on a clean vista machine some months back) and have now slipped it in below the radar on many people’s machines as an automatic download/update on iTunes & Quicktime.

However the disclaimer and EULA you have to sign up for is a beaut…

Now click accept on that in good faith…:0)