Comments on: My First Apple Complaint

By: kiddicus

kiddicus — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:06:20 +0000

IRB?

c’mon, you didn’t type “four finger gestures” without some kind of inuendo… right? am i right guys? guys?

By: IRB?

IRB? — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:48:47 +0000

The multi-touch gestures blew my mind. I’m totally jealous of the new MBPs that allow up to four finger gestures. Using the multi-touch on the iPhone is so intuitive I can’t believe more computer companies don’t try to incorporate similar technologies. Then again, that’s what patents are for.

Another thing I really like is the simplicity in networking that Macs have via bonjour. I’m doing a MobileMe trial and being able to log into my mini from anywhere is awesome – it’ll be real handy when I have a work computer and home computer that I’m writing from, etc.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:38:33 +0000

Yeah, I think I will probably buy another Mac, but I am such a geek that I will always have multiple platforms in my house for the foreseeable future. I was skeptical about the mac, even as I was buying the Macbook Pro for music production, but here I am in my living room typing on it right now. When I go to the Dell laptop at work, I constantly find myself trying to use finger dragging techniques on the mousepad that are only supported on my Macbook Pro. That in and of itself is a testament to mac’s innovation.

By: IRB?

IRB? — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:32:56 +0000

We’ve had to deal with similar issues with the iPhone not charging with any old connectors. We have a Griffin iTrip and an iHome alarm clock, neither of which work with the iPhone. Don’t really feel like buying all new stuff so we just deal with it. Phones come close to dying in the car between Ohio and DC.

I think it’s really similar to Apple forcing Firewire charging off the iPods, then moving it off the Macbook in the latest iteration. Rather than giving the option to people and letting them keep their peripherals, they’ve managed to nickle and dime everyone for the side stuff.

For example they no longer ship the (mostly useless) Apple remote with new macbooks – now they cost 20 bucks. They switched to a proprietary (albeit “license-free”) version of DIsplayport in their new laptops requiring a $30 adapter for VGA and DVI, or $100 for dual-link DVI. The new LCD display is mini-DP only, meaning you have to buy a new macbook to use it.

I understand moving hardware forward happens but it seems that Apple tends to make the decisions far ahead of the curve in terms of wide acceptance.

That being said, I’m hooked on Macs and use them more or less exclusively. Macbook for my main cpu, wife has a macbook as well. We’ve got an old G4 mac mini as a media center connected to our plasma, which works out great. If Apple updates the mini at macworld, I’ll be getting one for work so I don’t have to carry my laptop anymore. It’s amazing stuff how once you get an ipod you tend to get sucked in.

By: kiddicus

kiddicus — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:38:07 +0000

i had heard something was up with the new fleet of iPods regarding charging – thanks for being the guinea pig, as my wife’s 2GB nano is about to die.

do you know if this problem exists with the iPod touch?