I picked up the new Apple keyboard this afternoon. The old white ones were really good for catching crumbs and cat hair and I had nearly worn the letters off. The old Bluetooth ones just felt “mushy” – I know some people like them, but I opted to pick up a new one.
I thought it would take a while to adapt, but I am already typing more quickly on it than on the Bluetooth keyboard. The lower profile is also a lot better ergonomically. A backlight would have been slick, but that probably would have added another $20 to the price.
Steve Jobs has posted open letter to iPhone early adopters. In quick summary:
I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale.
…There is always change and improvement, and there is always someone who bought a product before a particular cutoff date and misses the new price or the new operating system or the new whatever…. If you always wait for the next price cut or to buy the new improved model, you’ll never buy any technology product because there is always something better and less expensive on the horizon. The good news is that if you buy products from companies that support them well, like Apple tries to do, you will receive years of useful and satisfying service from them even as newer models are introduced.
Our early customers trusted us, and we must live up to that trust with our actions in moments like these.
Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store. Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple’s website next week. Stay tuned.
Emphasis mine. I think this was the right thing to do.
With 30 minutes to spare to get it in “today”, Apple has released iTunes 7.4.
It is not functional yet but there is a pane now in iTunes for ringtones:
WordPress, Livejournal, Blogger, Blogspot, and Moveable Type cover darn near the full spectrum of tools for the more savvy blogger. I’ve run my blog on MT and WordPress for years and they are the tools with which I am most comfortable. There is a level of control in being able to really get in and mess with code that appeals – even when the user is not a savvy coder.
However, it was time I tried iWeb and .Mac publishing. There are some using it as their full-fledged blogging and site construction solution and it is a matter of time before someone asks me if I have used it. Time to dive in and test the waters.
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I’ve started posting photos to my .Mac gallery that’s a component of iLife ’08. I’m pretty pleased with it so far. The ability to quickly and easily post photos from the iPhone is slick. It would be nice if the photos were at full resolution but I guess Apple figures the pain of EDGE is minimized with a resized photo:
(Click on the image for the “full .Mac experience”.)
One of the annoyances about .Mac email versus Gmail, AOL mail, or self-hosted mail (we use Spamassassin) is no server-side filtering. That means having to do manual deletions on the iPhone. Well, not until now – as of yesterday Apple offers junk mail filtering.
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