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I’ve been wanting a lightweight travel machine for ages. I’ve been looking longingly at the MacBook Air as several folks I know own one, but the price has always been too high for me to easily justify to myself. And with the recent price increase in Australia to AU$2899 base, I just couldn’t do it.
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Six months ago, I posted about the campaign from Greenpeace to put pressure on Apple to adopt more eco-friendly practices in their manufacturing. Today, it looks like that campaign has taken full effect, with Apple’s public announcement that they are adopting processes to significantly reduce their environmental footprint across their manufacturing. The announcement [...]
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I really want to like the Apple TV. I think it’s a great idea and has a huge amount of potential. However, it’s deep ties to iTunes and the iTunes libraries of device owners essentially makes it a low-value (so low as to be effectively not worth the AU$449 it costs) device for [...]
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Regular readers here will already be aware of my low opinion of DRM, not because I think the labels/distributors/evil overlords are on to a good thing but because:
DRM restricts user rights post-purchase – the “I should be able to play this where and when I want” argument
DRM hurts content creators – content creators invariably sign [...]
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Steve Jobs has written an open letter to the music industry, positing that the best thing for the labels, consumers and music player manufacturers is to abolish DRM altogether:
The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, [...]
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The iPhone is going to utterly change the smartphone landscape. Everyone else is now completely in catchup mode. Nothing more to say.
Except that I have to wait until 2008 to get one! Dammit!
Pages and pages of in depth commentary at:
AppleInsider
TechCrunch (and more)
Om Malik
O’Reilly Radar (plus O’Reilly Emerging Telephony)
Boing Boing
Web Worker Daily
Engadget (plus [...]
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In the spirit of the Owner’s Manifesto, I present the find of the day – iFixit.
Buy the parts and read the comprehensive guides to fix your Apple doohickey of any description!
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Of course not.
Despite the coolness of the item, and the great cause associated with it, the iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED isn’t available in Australia. This sucks big time.
Anyone out there in the US prepared to get one for me? Paypal from me to you.
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Greenpeace wants your help convincing Apple to go green.
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In fact, they went above and beyond. So, it’s only fair that after blogging the series of motherboard replacements (four!) that I went through with my 9-month-old PowerBook, I should let you (all three of you) know that Apple have replaced my faulty PowerBook with a shiny, new 15.4″/2.0GHz/512Mb/80Gb MacBook Pro.
No arguments, and effectively [...]
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