New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Was Siri a train wreck? The first one wasn't great for me, but I assumed that was my guttural Glaswegian mumble. The new version gets me every time. I use it quite a lot.

yeah siri is totally useless to me, but train wreck?

forstall invented ios and osx no, can see why he apple might've cut him some slack

It's no Ping.

ping has actually gotten really good

(jk)

siri = first time I can remember apple releasing and promoting a flagship product that was still heavily in beta

ping has actually gotten really good

because it was killed off rite

Some people said that if they'd called the new Maps a beta product, like Siri, people wouldn't have minded. Um, no, not if you're using it to replace an alpha product.

Um, I don't mean alpha.

I think u meant zero day hack

woo Jony Ive is the best

Avi invented OS X and iOS. Forstall worked on em and took the credit.

oh u are in on the new beta of Ping too, s1ocki? add me, think you have my email. my itunes acct is the same

'Former Apple software engineer Mike Lee remarks, "I once referred to Scott as Apple’s chief a–hole. And I didn’t mean it as a criticism. I meant it as a compliment.'

Lee is a total a-hole

siri = first time I can remember apple releasing and promoting a flagship product that was still heavily in beta

If you go way back there's more. Cyberdog, OpenDoc, Newton...

According to net.chatter, Forstall refused to sign the apology letter for the Maps fiasco. When the Apple CEO has to break omerta and tell its iOS users to bookmark Google Maps or download Bing, someone is going to walk the plank. I can't imagine the fury that would have resulted if Jobs was still around.

Secondary chatter is that Forstall wasn't part of the iMac/iPad Mini unveiling. Supposedly this is akin to not being present on the Kremlin Wall during the May Day Parade. FWIW, Forstall also sold off 95% of his Apple shares in May so he made may already been working on an exit strategy.

Oh man, can you imagine being a fly on the wall if Jobs was alive and was having a discussion with Forstall about it?

would have liked to have been a fly on the wall during quite a few Jobs discussions

just not for the discussion about WHAT TO DO ABOUT ALL THESE FLIES IN THE OFFICE!!!!!

*shivers*

The user shouldn't have to see flies.

guys I am an ambient device nerd, and bought a philips research book on different environment concepts they were looking at five or six years ago. iirc it was at prairie avenue book shop, when I was with my architect friend

in other words, iphone-controlled LED lightbulbs that let you program colors are pretty much targeted right at me so I now have one of these kits on my desk: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/10/29/phillips-to-sell-ios-controlled-led-light-bulbs-exclusively-through-apple-stores/

oooo shit want

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I was just joking that I'm going to wait for an API or hacked API and make them flash red when my smart thermostat turns on the heat

Matt otm

thats dope i want

yeah that is way cool

I'm sure I read about iPhone-controlled lightbulbs just last week.

these actually follow a standard, so in theory you could use third-party gear... or something

This was the one I read about:

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/09/lifx-led-lightbulb-wifi-iphone/

It's a Kickstarter thing, so it may be vapor-product.

seemed dumb to me because wireless standards that work better than wifi (but require a base station, yes) already exist

not sure if the google lighting thing used zigbee too, but as far as I know it hasn't gone anywhere yet

An Apple spokesperson says iTunes 11 will be late and should ship by the end of November, according to a report from CNET. The software had been expected by the end of October.

removing turntable animation from the 'albums' section

Wait these things are $60 a pop? I'll buy some coloured gels

Two hundo for the starter kit with the base :/

brb swirling my light colors

this sounds real cool & i would like one but i think an era in which you go to someone's place & their kitchen is ~lit in blue light~ is gonna seem like one of those opulent-70s-interior-design-w-woodpanels phases, after the fact. like we will look back on the celebration of new colour opportunities with great shame. you see some movies that came out just post-technicolour & the guys'll be wearing a tuxedo with a red shirt & it is just too much.

I'm going to order one to play around w/ it and see how fine grained the colors and dimming are. I don't care about broad spectrum color changing but as an architect it would be really nice to specify a relatively cheap automated system to dim and shift from a daylight white to a warmer glow as the sun went down.

reasonably fine-grained, and you can basically drag the individual lights around on a color gradient

I said 'scott forstall' to siri, and it came back with

http://a2.img.mobypicture.com/4e2d6966ec5317b91420bf28ddc33e51_large.jpg

I bought the new earbuds and they are nice

rip

gotta laugh at the apple ads for the earbuds where they posit that they have reinvented the in-ear headphone when practically no-company had been making the old style round earphones for the last 5 years.

They are a major step up from the last ones (not saying much).

Again apps get stuck while updating and I have to reset and on occasion still delete the app and re-install it. I thought this was fixed. Annoying.

iPad mini is really nice. Pity screen isn't retina, but it's miles better than the OG iPad

Had a play with the mini in the Apple store earlier - really surprised at how much I liked it, even with a non-retina screen. If my iPad 3 wasn't a work machine, and if I didn't need the full sized screen (and retina display) for reading academic papers, I would probably be selling it and buying one of these.

Also had a play with the rMBP 13" - seemed very nice, a little bulkier/heavier than I would like, but probably I will get one anyway, rather than a 13" MBA; I already have the 11" MBA, so that's always going to win out when I want something truly portable, and the rMBP seems light enough to carry around some of the time.

The early reviews of the 13 rmbp aren't good, T: seems the gfx card is seriously underpowered, and it's laggy and stuttery as a consequence.