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Category Archives: Apple stuff

Owning “Nothing”

03-Sep-12

I spotted a little article today on the Guardian’s website, which in my eyes should have more coverage. Basically Bruce Willis is reportedly suing Apple over the right to ‘own’ his digital music collection.  It looks as if he was in the middle of making his Will, and discovered that he does not and has never [...]

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You know that old saying…

29-Dec-11

…two any cooks spoil the broth? Well that’s the Apple shop in a nutshell. I mean how many employees do they have in their store at any one time? I must have counted about 30 in the Exeter store today. I know its post-Christmas, but its not like they have a sale on or anything. [...]

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I know what Apple are really good at doing

04-Oct-11

Coming up with expert solutions to no problems whatsoever.

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Jobs may have gone, but the promise of salvation remains

28-Aug-11

So what if Steve Jobs has gone? The Catholicism automaton of Apple rolls on anew in any case. The converted will continue to silently convert the unconverted. Devices will still flitter the market; devices that convince users the ‘best’ way to print something, the ‘best’ way to make a phone call. Salvation is easy when [...]

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Apple and the Cult

23-May-11

Forget the (non) rapture – more evidence is emerging of the self-evident, cult, evangelical religious stance that accompanies the use, purchase and community of Apple’s products. If we consider ourselves to be agnostic in these rational, modern times, scenes from the BBC’s Secrets of the Superbrands of the opening of an Apple shop, should avert us [...]

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Why I prefer iPod Touch to iPhone.

02-Sep-10

Screw the iPhone, I’ve never liked what it does or what it stands for. This isn’t directed as a cynical criticism of Apple itself for the very reason that I’ve never liked the iPhone but preferred the iPod Touch. The iPod Touch is marketed as a thinner lighter version of the iPhone, without any phone [...]

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My iWork 09 30 trial is over…

04-Jun-10

Was it any good? No – it wasn’t. The only “highlight” was that Keynote became very dependable for doing a presentation and exporting to PowerPoint. But thats really it. Everything had the usual shiny Apple embossed ‘gloss-ness’ about it, to defer how stunningly inept it actually is. Pages can’t offer anything new from Office, numbers can’t either, [...]

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