It's awesome that he's showing a movie produced by a company headed by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. He just can't escape...

@darkstar
"i couldnt agree more!
for an "innovative" company, apple is churning out the same old look within the past 5 years.
when is it going to really redesign the laptop? and when is it going to use other exotic materials like carbon fibers that sony experimented 10 years ago?"

Have you been in a cave? These notebooks were completely redesigned last year. They look and feel nothing at all like the previous-gen MBP I am typing on. The unibody design, incidentally, is as innovative anything we've seen in notebook construction, because nobody's ever tried anything like it before. Having compared the two, I must say, it actually does the job - I'd much rather tote one of those around my poorly paded backpack. Of course, I suppose they could make a notebook out of zebrawood and unobtainium, but then everyone would cry that it cost $10,000.

HEADLINE: Steve Jobs may or may not have sneezed today. Reports are coming in from all over the blogosphere that Apple CEO and resident deity Steven P. Jobs may have sneezed and even blown his nose. As to weather this was his real nose, an iNose, or an unreleased nose prototype, it is not yet known...

Fast-forward 3 pages...

Oh yeah, and some crap was announced by some company in Redmond today. We'll have more on that in a few months when people have actually worked out the bugs.

LOL.

We have about a 1 in 20,000 chance of coming away with this. Well, I didn't get much for my birthday...

Good luck to everyone!

Well I normally enter, but I've been more-or-less turned down for another job today, so I thought it might give it a try. Besides, I figure any future rejections will sound way awesome-er in Dobly 5.1. As for my recession antidote, quite frankly giving me a job would help, because then I could buy one of these cherry thingys for myself. Cheers!

Given the choice, I think I'd rather have a fixed economy than a swanky Netflix box. Either way, I'll toss my hat in the ring.

I dunno how it feels, but this one's puuuurdy.

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It's the Moshi Celesta.

3 Simple Rules for Making the AppleTV Unbelievably Sexay

I think the AppleTV comes just short of being the ultimate 21st century media hub. Streaming movies from your computer to your living room is a nifty idea, but doesn't make a lot of business sense unless there's a real impetus for consumers to adopt the technology. With iPods, it worked because people already had enormous libraries of pirated music courtesy of Napster, combined with the option of ripping their own CD collections. That being said, I strongly believe that the key to launching the AppleTV into the stratosphere is to make it port of call for *existing* content. This, I believe, can be achieved by 3 main mods:

1.) Add a BluRay disc drive. This is practically a no brainer. Apple leapt on the BluRay board like a drunken prom date and have yet to incorporate the technology into any of it's products. Currently, the PS3 is STILL the cheapest BluRay player in the market, meaning that the field is still relatively thin of competitors. The optical drive alone would be enough to get a few people interested.

2.) Add DVR functionality. It's got a hard drive. It's connected to your TV. It's designed to manage media. The FCC has ruled that cable companies are *required* to open up set-top cable receivers to third party vendors, meaning more choices for consumers. If Apple doesn't doesn't provide a DVR, that's fine - customers are just going to get another box that will. Obviously a larger hard drive or external USB drive would make sense at this juncture.

3.) Add a movie rental service to the iTunes Movie Store. In the age of HD Video, streaming content that's sub-DVD resolution seems like a step in the wrong direction. I'm not sure how discerning iTunes customers have become, but I can't fathom paying to own a movie that is going to look like VHS when the standard DVD is for sale in the Wal-Mart down the street. It is in this light that I think the AppleTV becomes a questionable purchase for many consumers. I think Steve Jobs hit it on the head when he said that customers want to own their music but don't necessarily feel the same way about movies (the old iPod + Video debunk.) What customers ARE used to, however, is renting movies. It's become practically an institution since the VCR first ejected it's way into our living rooms. Netflix has managed to turn the traditional rental model on it's ear a bit; however, even they've seen the trend toward movie downloads. Cable's OnDemand feature is further evidence of this. If iTunes offered a basic rental service at a competitive price, it would provide a near instant gratification that would leave brick and mortar & mail order services in the dust.

Given these three options, the AppleTV essentially replaces every other box in your living room, giving Apple the only such product in existence. That *seems* to be something they enjoy.

This Ain't Your Great, Great, Great Grandmother's Digital Camera. Every once in a while, you read an earnestly writen piece who's sublte humour is so delicately sublime that your laughter brings you to tears. (The last such article I read - though not gadget related - involved Daniel Radcliffe and some naked horse-eye stabbing.) This is definately the lastest. Nice job, Nilay.