I Phony

So I've gotten my iPhony. Nice looking phone actually. For the record it is the CECT P168 iFONE Tri-Band PDA Phone. Yes the interface is cheesy as hell. Fonts bitmapped like hell. If anything it would make you appreciate what apple did when it did the interface on the iPhone. This phone here has a better video camera than my N800.

One serious word of warning though. DO NOT EVER connect this phone to a Mac via USB. I did so to transfer some images to try out for a wallpaper and had the Finder go crazy after copying all of 3 files. After two reboots I decided that Bluetooth will be the way I'll be transferring things to this phone. Then on reboot it asked me to install the sim card. Excuse me? This went on a couple of times before I figured out that I can access some of the menus and get the phone to "switch" sim cards. After doing this twice, the phone finally booted properly. HOWEVER the touch screen orientation was backwards. After rebooting again I figured out that by recalibrating the touch screen I could get the screen to act right.

Crazy.

Now when I got the package it was interesting what they put on the package as a description of content: LED Flashlight.

NBC's Universal's Thought Process

Ever since Microsoft agreed to pay some company a 1 buck or so "royalty" for every Zune sold, these greedy media people have had hard ons for getting a piece of Apple's hardware business.

Recently Jeff Zucker said that Apple is “destroyed the music business in terms of pricing” and will invariably do the same to the online video business."

Well first think wrong with this idea is that there was no money in the online "music biz" until Apple got in the "music business" And similarly there was really not an online video biz until the iPod Video came around. Yes there were PMP's before the iPod video of which I own a few, but very few of them were actually hosting paid for content. So basically Apple monetized for both itself and its media suppliers the portable music and video online business. But really that's not what they are thinking about. No, they, like the Mob, want their hands in the end to end part of the business. First we dick the artists, then we dick the consumer. If we can dick the hardware companies too, all the better!

OK They didn't say it like that, rather they said:

“Apple sold millions of dollars worth of hardware off the back of our content and made a lot of money,” Zucker said. “They did not want to share in what they were making off the hardware or allow us to adjust pricing.”

Zune-itis. See that's the real dig here. Oddly enough I don't see where Samsung pays each and every media outlet for the movies and other programming seen on it's screens. Nope. Sony.. well they are in the end-to-end business and their pricing shows it. But understand this, These people are mad because Apple didn't roll over and die in the 90's and they are mad 'cause Apple made the better Walkman. They are also completely blind to the fact that they, the media companies are producing crap and the audience knows it. They will no longer spend their money on CD's with filler songs just to get the one, two or three tracks they want. The record companies killed off the singles market because they wanted to boost album sales. Never mind that oft times those singles were ridiculously priced to begin with. But at least in the pre-iPod days you could argue that one had to produce artwork and produce and actual material product, but with the digital revolution, there is one file. That's it. There is no cost incurred by the media companies to distribute the digital product it is a product with the bare minimal overhead for the media companies. Apple is the one paying for that bandwidth and storage and talent. The media companies get to sit back and say: "Pay me."

It's a Mob mentality. There is no shame.

iPod Touch

I was in B&H Photo is NYC today purchasing a wide angle lens for my camera and while I was waiting for help I saw the new iPods on display. My 20GB iPod is pretty old and will be due for a replacement but I was really unawares of how the iPod ecosystem had changed since that iPod.

The Touch is small.

I knew that the iPods had gone thin but I was really surprised at just how small the touch is. It would have been informative to see the screen on to get a feel for the relative screen size but it makes my N800 seem gargantuan in comparison. Yes the N800 has a larger screen, bluetooth and a SD slot, but seriously it is huge compared to the touch, which functionally does what the N800 does for most people.

New Mac OS X Names

Well there are still a few big name Cats to go before Apple runs out of feline names for their OS's. So I suggest that Apple start a contest for the public to have a chance at naming a future OS release based on their cat's name. I can see it now. Mac OS X Fluffy. Mac OS X Sox.
and of course my own Cat's name, Mac OS X Yemi. Do you have a cat? Put your OS name in the comments.

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IT OS2008 for N800

Will apparently be released alongside the N810.

The N810 sales will start on mid November and simultaneously the OS2008 will be available for download for N800 users.

Leopard on Friday. ITOS 2008 in November. I'm a happy camper.

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RIP Lucky Dube

Victim of Black on Black crime. I just read this. I am NOT happy.

The staff of Gallo Record Company are devastated by the news of the tragic passing of reggae legend Lucky Dube. Lucky was slain in an attempted hijacking in Rosettenville in Johannesburg last night, at approximately 8pm, whilst dropping off his children at a family members house.

www.luckydubemusic.com

Toyata: We Knew About That Faulty Transmission...

“We knew in the very beginning we had a transmission issue with that vehicle,” he said. The problem caused the transmission to get stuck in second gear or pass through second gear roughly."

Left Lane News

Umm I think I smell lawyers coming.