Death and Deaths Dog from Family Guy

Earlier today Steve Jobs failed to take part in an important conference call by Apple detailing its financial state. The news in that call was that Apple shareholders can expect lower returns in the coming year. This was rather unexpected news considering the increase in sales of the mac and iPhone lines. Steve was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer posing questions on his state of health and his future at Apple.

This sounds dire for Apple and the Apple community, far less Steve himself. What does the future hold?

Now I wonder, was this story generated to create buzz for the newspaper, I mean we all know they’re not doing so well now that there is so much more truth out there these days or maybe  the journalist (is he worthy of that title?) received some backhander from a competitor looking to make the market jumpy and affect the stock price. It would’nt be the first time its happened and Apple is making some pretty big inroads to a number of markets.

It turns out that Mr Jobs has only participated in these calls three times out of the last 11 calls and then only to deliver bad news. So his non-appearance isn’t a surprise, in fact its expected and maybe hoped for!

More good news is that there are some pretty big announcements coming on new Apple products. Th downside of that is it always has a hit on profits due to initial costs of manufacture, advertising, etc. Nothing to do with Steve Jobs health or his future at Apple, which I guess is pretty secure.

So you see this is a non-story, a manufactured soundbite to titilate the palate of the blog readers of the world that crave a new story to interest them in what is a sea of bland reporting.

We allow ourselves to be taken in by such mis-information all the time. The headline becomes more important than the story.

We rush past news stands, we half listen to the evening news headlines, we zip through the lists of news items on our RSS readers and we miss what is REAL.

I am growing tired of the non-news, are you?

And just for clarity on Steve Jobs. He’s not dying, just delivering a new iPhone 3G to Mr Death himself. Hey everyone wants one! DONT THEY?! (Death has gone for a white one to kick his look up a notch, all that black was making him depressed! LOL)

Take care and dont just accept the news as its laid in front of you, not everyone is honest.

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Steve Jobs iPod Touch Updates

The iPhone 3G brings with it many great updates, including the App Store.

 

Yet as before Apple has chosen to tax the poor iPod Touch users.

This is a loss of trust for many people and thats much more of an important issue than $10 it costs to purchase the update.

The thing is Apple tried the market, you all gave in to the first update so now they are going to screw you every time there is an update. 

This, for me, makes the iPod Touch now a no-go and has made me decide that I will not now rush to purchase any new iPod that comes along.

That sounds major but the iPod as we knew it is effectively dead, the high end product is the iPhone, the iPod nano will effectively replace the iPod. If you have an iPod Touch you have a hobbled iPhone.

It will therefore become cheaper in future to manufacture and sell you an iPhone with no-sim, you get your iPod functionality and Apple get the possibility of you using that SIM card slot at some point in the future. That is surely the direction in which things are going?

That means you will have to pay for future iPhone upgrades? After all, there is a market there, why would they not? They are a company, not a charity.

With millions of users worldwide it suddenly becomes worth charging even $1.

And what of OS X updates or iLife updates that often add functionality? Should we pay for those too? Maybe we will have to, after all there is now an App Store from whence to purchase them!

That is why I moaned so much when the first update came out, we should never have accepted it then, all we did was set the path in stone for the future.

And if Apple can charge for updates, then so can Microsoft and all the other companies that follow in their respective wakes. This is a much bigger change than we may initially see!

P.S. Paying for an upgrade that allows access to the App Store, should that not have been free to allow all to access the App Store apps? Kind of shot yourself in the foot there perhaps? REVENGE! Slightly, partially, yummy! LOL

It seems like half the world is sitting here watching, listening, blogging, twittering or IM’ing news of Apple’s WWDC 2008 event from the Moscone Convention Hall in San Francisco today.

I have to admit to being caught up in the excitement even though I sold my iPhone recently.

The iPhone is a great bit of kit but I didnt really have the need for it anymore so, sadly, I parted ways with it.

It certainly looks like exciting things are happening for it and I will no doubt make use of some of the features even if I don’t actually own a device.

Also waiting on Snow Leopard info and hopefully more…..i’ll keep listening.

Well its finally happened.

The last nail was hammered into the coffin and the cadaver rests forever undisturbed inside.

Ok, its a little dramatic, I grant you that but when you are wronged repeatedly you have to say enough is finally enough.

A shop sells you crap, you stop buying. Your train company delays you, you fly or take the bus, Your partner cheats, you leave them.

Apple, take this as notice, the love affair is over, pack your bags and leave.

I grew up with Microsoft, each new release was more and more exciting, new features, new ideas, pushing the bounds of technology, moving forward and finding new ways of being more productive and interesting and exciting.

Then they discovered there was money in support. And it began. Usability was replaced with un-usability beacuse it required support, support of Microsoft trained (at cost) system engineers. The more difficult they made it, the more money they made. We were sitting ducks and they took those easy shots.

And for me, enough was enough. I moved to mac.

Now I love the mac platform, it is truly wonderful and my time with it has been a joy.

Things work. Sorry but thats it, boring, short but brilliantly true, things W.O.R.K. where they don’t with Windows, no re-installs, no searching technet for explanations for todays obscure failure. Imagine my joy!

Years of joy, years of fun and usability and get the pictue?

Now I have been shafted once, bought a new ipod cos I didnt want an iPhone, didnt NEED an iPhone.

And now I have to pay, pay because I have NO OTHER CHOICE than to pay if I want to move forward, pay because I am being held to ransom. So yes, I gave in and paid.

Now Apple are to release another new update, just a matter of weeks after the last, not months more like weeks. And they want me to pay again. Not the iPhone users, not those supreme beings, no they get if free but us the lowly iPod user must AGAIN pay.

Well, no, sorry, not again, no longer will I just take this.

So it stops.

The apple TV is definately in the bin,

The new mac, postponed.

The change to something else, probably linux accelerated.

I have had enough.

I want to be free of one person, one entity choosing my destiny and then screwing me for my loyalty to them.

You know I feel better for venting this, i’m such an apple whore i’ll probably forgive them tomorrow, god its like sleeping with the company LOL

I said the word Whore!, naughty me! hence the [NSFW] tag. Let me know if that is me being too strict

And while we are on the subject, who the heck read this blog?

Go on email me people! Let me know there is someone, out there in the ether, otherwise I am having Yvette from Most Haunted excercise your spirit LOL, anyone else into Most Haunted? Love it!

Until next time, thanks, and guys email me!

There is a growing voice asking Apple to give everyone with an iPod Touch the recent app upgrade for free.

In a previous post I stated how angry I was that while still within the first month of ownership I was being charge a fee that people that potentially had purchased a few days after me were not having to pay.

I would ask everyone to sign the petition, as I write this it stands at over 17,000 signatures, thats almost $9 Million worth of iPod sales!

Sign the petition to ask Apple to give us free iPod Touch Apps.