Advertising + Design > Cost + Learning Curve
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In recent years, Apple’s done a fair share of designing pretty products (if not hardware wise the best products) and have substantially increased their exposure to the public with product placement (they’re in Best Buy and Apple Stores) and advertising (no more pretentious posters: now we have the PC Guy vs. the Mac). In all this, Apple’s prices haven’t dropped so much to equate with a PC (that usually gives you more hardware wise). Also, Apple hasn’t bothered much with training in their products beyond the nearest Apple Store Genius but all in all it’s paid off.Apple is now the third largest computer seller in the United States, bumping Acer to Fourth.
Article Tags>> acer | apple | pcApple’s File Name Extensions: A Rant
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Extensions, for all you Mac users, is the three to four letter attachment to the end of a file name which flags it underneath the header of a specific program or application type. It tells the computer what encoding is in the file so that the computer knows what to do with it. Coming in from the old days of DOS, a file named [REYPOST space TXT] would be opened by a text (txt) editor. This got confusing so over time the OS switched to using reypost.txt. Apple, for all its slickness, has the uber stupidity of still allowing files to be named without extensions. Article Tags>> apple | filenames | mimeApple Stuff 2008
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Steve unveils the new airbook (absurdly sexy, ridiculously thin and absurdly stupid without an optical drive and without the ability to change your battery); iPhone gets some features it should’ve had anyway; Apple decides to make us pay for stuff that should’ve been on the iPod Touch anyway (and which was put on it for free by the wonderful web jailbreakers); Time Machine gets a Capsule($499 is the one that everyone needs and when you consider that a wireless N router is $149 and a 1TB storage unit is $269 this isn’t a bad option); Axiotron’s modbook Apple tablet PC finally ships (pretty steep price but what do you expect: it’s a modified mac!); rent movies on iTunes ($3.99 new releases, everything else $2.99, 1 dollar more for HD); Apple TV Take 2 (no computer required so you can rent movies without a computer–basically making your TV a WebTV); this was last week but the 8-Core Mac Pro.(This has nothing to do with Apple but it looks fun to participate in and this project is what my brother is currently building.)
Article Tags>> airbook | apple | computer | ilife | ipod
