7 posts tagged “apple”
With all the hype for Ratatouille and the mega-hype for the iPhone, I'm surprised no one has written an article about the rather large subset of people who will face a difficult choice tomorrow, June 29th: which one to stand in line for. With the iPhone going on sale at 6pm and the movie opening the same night, it's going to be tricky to pull off both.
Of course as CEO of Apple and the largest shareholder at Disney, Steve Jobs wins either way.
Sure, the new Apple iPhone looks pretty slick. But you have to realize, they have been working on this thing for a looooong time:
Just about everyone was using photos and emailing the pics to themselves. If you went to the Mail.app "Sent" box, you could watch the emails go out at the rate of about one email every four seconds.
My favorite overheard sales technique involved the employee asking the potential buyer if they had some sort of student ID. If they did, they said "Good news!" But the good news was never, "you can get this item you are looking at for even less money" but rather "you can now buy this even better item for the same amount of money!"
To: Steve Jobs
From: Barry Myerson <bmeyerson@mtmpc.org>
Date: September 12, 2006
Subject: Apple media event outfit
You are dead to us.
Regretfully,
Barry
Barry Myerson
VP Marketing/Communications
Mock Turtleneck Manufacturers Promotion Council
(804)
684-7313
What was your most memorable or favorite school field trip?
Let's go with most memorable, but in an unpleasant way. Because who wants to read about a nice stroll around a museum?
In tenth grade, we took a day trip down to NYC to see Biloxi Blues on Broadway. For lunch we had fast food, which either gave me the fastest case of food poisoning ever, or triggered some sort of lurking stomach virus. Either way, as we were crossing a street I had the irresistible urge to empty my stomach and threw up immediately, in the middle of the crosswalk. The good part? I had been in the back of the crowd, so no one from my group saw it happen. Then, crossing the next street while still disoriented a bit, I stepped off the curb and was nearly run down by a bike messenger.
The play itself was amusing.
Ok, for a good memorable field trip: in 8th grade (I think) I went with a few other students up to Albany to interview some politicians (Nick Spano, I believe. Would this video exist anywhere?). I don't really recall why I was in the group that did this. Probably chosen at random. Anyway, at the same time, there was some sort of technology/science thing going on. The one exhibit I remember was some folks using a lightpen hooked up to whatever the latest Apple computer was at the time. Probably the //e. I got to try it out myself and being able to draw directly onto the screen definitely contributed towards my love of computers and the cool things they could do. When I returned home, I searched for a lightpen for my Atari computer, and ended up getting a Koala Pad, which was lots of fun. (Random aside: Koala Paint used the term "prairie fire fill" for what ended up being called "flood fill" in most graphic applications. I still sometimes fall back to saying "prairie fire".)
What's the oldest digital camera photo you have on your computer? When is it from? Let's see it!
I have some photos of NYC from when I reviewed the Apple Quicktake 100 (I think) for Imaging Magazine sometime in 1994/95. I don't recall exactly what I took pictures of - a fruit stand I think, among other things. Unfortunately they are probably on a hard drive not hooked up to any computer right now. It would probably be faster for me to find someone who has a copy of the magazine and have them scan them in :)
It was a fairly negative review, but my publisher softened it up a bit (does anyone have access to ancient articles such as this?)
