Month: June 2007

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Debated Puzzled Over

An Environmentally Friendly Keynote

WWDC 2007’s Keynote just ended. What many people may not know was that the keynote was part of Apple’s goal to [become a greener company](http://www.apple.com/hotnews/agreenerapple/).

An example? Here’s the list of the “10 new Leopard features” from last year’s keynote:

* 64 bit
* Time Machine
* “Complete Package” (Photo booth / Front Row / Boot Camp)
* Spaces
* Spotlight
* Core Animation
* Universal Access
* Mail.app
* Dashboard
* iChat

This year, there was another list of 10 new features.

* New Desktop
* New Finder
* Quick Look
* 64 bit
* Core Animation
* Boot Camp
* Spaces
* Dashboard
* iChat
* Time Machine

Depending on your view (“Boot Camp” was a part of the “Complete Package” feature; Quick Look is/was a part of Time Machine), you’ll see that 60-80% of this year’s Leopard demo was recycled.

Who would’ve thought Apple would go green so quickly?

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Disliked Narrated

Breaking The Trinity

Seth Jayson of The Motley Fool wrote a piece today called “Microsoft’s Xbotch“:

As an investor, I can’t help but worry that my experience with Microsoft consumer products is not out of the ordinary. Not only are repairs an expensive waste of shareholder capital, but they risk alienating potential customers and crimping future growth. In effect, it doesn’t matter if the rate of Xbotch failure is as low as Microsoft reportedly contends, because the perceived rate of failure is what matters to consumers. People trust what they hear. And if they hear enough from irate Xbotch or Zune customers, they aren’t going to open up the wallet.

This is the conclusion of the story of one irate Xbox customer.

Continue reading “Breaking The Trinity”
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Found

Movable Type Gets Rebooted

Four months ago, I [had a crisis of faith about my blogging platform](https://vjarmy.com/archives/2007/02/a_crisis_of_blogging_faith.php). (That sounds very emo.)
Today, Six Apart announced [MovableType 4](http://www.movabletype.com/mt4/). It’s in beta, has a ton of new features, and most importantly, will be open source upon release.
At last, I’m excited about using MT again.
To the 6A team – cheers. I’m really looking forward to cutting my teeth on this.
To Anil – I owe you a Shack burger. Thanks for listening, man.
To my four readers – I’m upgrading to the beta in a minute or two. This may get bumpy. Hang in there.