New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

oh whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

cuz the current education discount is not v good iirc

http://developer.apple.com/students/sthardware.html

lol after doing the math you save around $140 over the education store discount, at least for the top of the line 15". I assume the savings get smaller the further down you move down the apple product line.

you save 199 on the 1499 13" i think

are you factoring in the $100 it takes to join the program?

yup

1499*0.8 + 100

education discount on top of the line 13": $1399

adc student discount: 1199 + 100 = 1299

so about 100?

oh duh i am dumb: i was comparing it to the original price :(

iPad works fine for watching random movies. If you want to make it work well, I'd recommend importing the file into iTunes (although not having iTunes do any transcoding) and adding title and descriptions. I threw a couple ripped dvds on there and they work great.

File syncing to the iPad kind of sucks, or at least it would for document management of anything you'll edit.

"iPad works fine for watching random movies." - I'm just going to assume you're not talking about DivX movies here, but if you are, please explain.

I've been just streaming my DivX and other random file formats through Air Video (from my laptop). Real nice interface and quality of video.

By "random" I mean "movies that I have been encoding with Handbrake for the past couple years." If you're looking for random crap you've downloaded off the web to work, then yeah, there will be issues.

They've scrapped the ADC student programme and the hardware discount. It's still valid if you've got one, but you can't sign up any more.

that's not really random is it? xp

Classic: available 512GB solid state drive!
Dud: it's $1300 ;_:

still, new MBPros look faaaast

still thinkin this imac + ipad + hang onto current MBP until it dies = winning scenario

get a skateboard too

http://www.thelaughingplanet.com/cheyney/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/poochie.gif

uk ipad on may 10

that's the pre-order date, still no price announcement yet though

Fuckers.

this was interesting, that there should be no customs charges for imported ipads as they aren't programmable...

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPad/Apple+iPad/news.asp?c=19060

but don't quote me on that. people on other forii have been importing them but no word on import duty.

this is more my style: http://wepad.mobi/en

Yeah it's just VAT.

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2010/04/15/iphone_os_4_0/

I think it’s fair to say that most people involved in interaction design tend to agree that hierarchical file systems have largely failed their users. People don’t want to deal with user-maintained hierarchies, and hierarchical file systems mainly succeed in helping people lose their data inside a huge mess of pointless folder structures. However, when we say «hierarchical file systems don’t work», most of us end that sentence with «so we need to replace them with something better» in our heads. Apple, on the other hand, ended the sentence with «so we’re not going to bother with this stuff, let’s just leave this up to each individual application.»1

As a result, the problem is now arguably becoming worse than it was before. Not only is the problem of file management still unsolved and extremely difficult, but now every application has its own, mutually incompatible and inconsistent solution for it.

Some applications synchronize files on a local network with a desktop application or a small desktop client. Others let users add and remove files using something like FTP or WebDAV. Some use Internet services for synchronizing files. The iPad has its own file sharing system for certain applications, which is a complete joke. Some applications interface with systems like Box.net or Dropbox.

Most applications can’t share files between each other. And of course, the user interface for accessing files is completely different in different applications.

At some point, Apple needs to address this problem. Unfortunately, they did not do so in 4.0.

people talk about something that I thought was a good idea, the old soup idea, put everything in one place and use tags or metadata, but the more I think about that, the more I think that's a terrible idea as well. Like I'm more or less happy with labels in gmail, but then I find it really tedious to add 3 labels to a single email.

For most normal people who simply keep everything in a "documents" folder, an easy solution can probably be found, but for serious users with tons and tons of work, I can't imagine what it would be.

I think 'spotlight' was an attempt to solve this but then you have to remember what keywords to search for

I don't like anything that relies on search...spotlight, quicksilver etc. It's like, you forget where things are, you search for them and if you find two similar folders you still have to remember which is which. I prefer orderly folder nesting. Search is also too slow, especially over a network.

For me, primarily a creator and reader of texts (as opposed to "multimedia" files), a great start would be a file system that put the author's name and article's title "automatically" into the file's name, or into whatever "tag" system is being searched. Spotlight fails me so often even when I know the author and (some substring of the) title.

it can't be automatic though. Somebody has to input the info somewhere! I'm not sure how much room for metadata there is in .txt or .rtf or .doc, but Photoshop for instance has an extensive amount of metadata, and it's not Photoshop specific, it uses what's called XMP. Digital asset management at larger advertising/design/printing type firms use this info and it's plugged into a database or web browsing abilities.

right---but it could be something that, say, PDF or .doc creation somehow "prompted" or even "required" (obv. in some weak sense) you to do...not so much for yourself as for other people who'll be sharing the documents.

Soups worked really, really well in Newton. They should revamp that, for certain

that was just implemented stupidly. I'm not suggesting going back to newton soups. But there's a compromise somewhere.

oh, that wasn't ilxor sarc -- i liked soups! Need a revamp for sure, but you're right.

I think the earlier article or somewhere linked to this:

http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/94591835/warning-a-long-rambly-exploration-of-the-state

I can see this being the type of thing where Apple doesn't release anything until they think they have the problem nailed (see copy paste.) It seems like Jobs is in love with the idea of re-imagining computing, so I don't see a tactical retreat to a boring old filesystem.

And if I had to guess, I'd say the future looks like iTunes/iPhoto for documents, with similar but distinct management interfaces for office docs, music, etc.

i suspect they're desperately trying to come up with something better than the google app style filecloud, though that's easily the best solution available right now for mucking about stuff on multiple computer or portable devices that all have internet access

Nice idea in that article though - about going from Quicklook to Quickedit, this would actually be a brilliant move, no UI just working keyboard shortcuts to manipulate documents, autosave constantly etc. I already use Spotlight all the time. There are already a hardcore set of users who are using Quicksilver-esque task launchers...

I use gmail and google docs...miles better than mobileMe, obviously, but I really hate them. I hate the interface on google's stuff, I hate how buttons keep moving around. I hate a lot of things about them. It's bizarre that there are these two opposing companies competing against each other and their strengths are so totally opposite. If apple got on board and realized everybody wanted a greater degree of cloud computing and offered powerful features, instead of the stunted website that is mobileme mail, they could do amazing things. Or if Google just hired some better UI people.

I know apple is working on this and that, but I'm affraid it's too late...maybe not for the industry but for me! I've already moved all my mail and contacts to google. I also moved some timesheet type files I use when freelancing from iDisk to google docs.

Yeah I wonder if all that money Apple recently dropped on a datacenter was for this or just to keep up with iTunes/App Store growth.

luuuuuuuuust if these are real
http://www.pmptoday.com/wp-content/uploads/iphone-4g-unibody-design.jpg

my Verizon contract is about up and i'm considering jumping over to AT&T for the iPhone. sounds like the 4G is coming out this summer though. if i got the 3GS now, would i be able to trade it in toward a 4G when that comes out? just wondering if i should wait or if it doesn't really matter.

I'd wait. You'd probably be able to get some discount on the 4G (no way for a free trade, though), but why not just wait a few more months?

I'm gonna wait a few months to see if there's any solid news about iPhone coming to Verizon...if not it's the HTC Incredible for me. I've just heard enough complaints from users in NY, but more importantly all the people I call are on verizon, which helps keep costs down.

yeah, waiting seems to be the smart thing to do. my current phone is a total POS and slightly broken so i'm just very eager to get rid of it.

cozen, that picture looks a lot more like the iPad form factor than an iPhone. iPhone is much more tapered on the edges.

if i got the 3GS now, would i be able to trade it in toward a 4G when that comes out?

After the ridiculous run-around and bs that I got from AT&T last summer, I'm going to say not a chance in hell.

i would wait, both for verizon and 4g (although 3gs is pretty fast). hopefully if they open up verizon it will lessen the load on AT&T, and also maybe drive the price on AT&T down a bit (it is outrageous, IMO).