Posts by deains

It's okay

One of their employees is bound to leave one in a bar sooner or later!

Just call a spade a spade

I'd never even heard the term "Ultrabook" before reading this article (possibly I've been spending too much time living beneath a rock). Can't we just call them "Notebook Airs" and have done with it?

Presumably then

If the iPad camera isn't up to it, the 3GS one probably isn't going to be much cop either. Guess I'll save my money until I get my next iPhone upgrade.

In other news

Apple begins patent lawsuit against two South Carolina men for the manufacture and distribution of replica iPads.

Why touchscreen?

When I'm reading a book, there's only two actions I need (apart from power on/off): next page and previous page. For the <1% time I'm not using my Kindle to read a book (usually meaning I'm selecting a new book to read, or re-syncing to Amazon), the buttons work perfectly well, ta very much.

So, what's the point in having a touchscreen? Even if it was better for non-reading use, that takes up such a microcosm of my time compared to actual reading, it's just not worthwhile. And until the screens go colour, it's not going to be worth using for web browsing or anything similar.

An eReader is an eReader, folks. Let's not turn books into media centres, please?

Introducing...

The Nintendo 2DS?

That's the silliest thing I've seen today.

I can only guess that Apple patented it to prevent anyone else bringing such a stupid product to market and calling it the iPhallus for iPod or something. It's not something I'd like associated with one of my products, that's for sure.

Paris as I can't find the Cult of Jobs icons.

Who really cares?

If you need MySQL running, go grab the source code and compile it yourself, or download one of the binaries from MySQL's own website, even. It's not the end of the world. And Postgre is almost certainly a better DB, with a more usable licensing system, so it's not exactly a silly decision on Apple's behalf.

The only silly thing is perhaps that, if they're marketing their servers as a prosumer/small business thing, making it harder to install an AMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP) server - the staple of a zillion small-to-medium-to-humongous web projects - is perhaps not the greatest idea.

Adding an extra step won't hurt much, but they can no longer say OS X Server "just works" for building a web server.

Unambitious maths

Given the cost of import duties, sanctions, VAT, the cost of distribution itself, plus in-the-box accessories, manuals, packaging and warranty coverage, it's not really a huge stretch to suggest Ninty are pushing the 3DS to be a loss-leader. The money in the games industry has long been with the games themselves, which cost a lot less to produce and have far bigger margins.

If you can't beat 'em...

Buy 'em.

A departure from tradition

Wait, Apple *bought* the domain name? Why didn't they just sue them for using Apple's trademark on "i" or something like that?