I have an older generation Apple Keyboard (this one is german, mine is standard US, but the design is the same and I don’t feel like taking a picture). The problem is, my spacebar key is starting to crap out on me (or I’m losing thumb strength and can no longer hit it as hard). I’ve had said keyboard for probably 3 years or so. Is it reasonable to be expected to go out and buy a new one? ...
Steve Jobs’ obituary was mistakenly released by Bloomberg News today. Bloomberg is a company that strives not to take a position on the market, but in this case, they actually caused the stock to take a sharp dip. They have since retracted the article and stated that they have no non-public information on the health of Steve Jobs.
John Gruber nails it: Apple’s biggest problem isn’t with its product quality (which, overall, remains very high), but with its communication to customers. If your reading this blog, you probably know that I’m a big Apple fan. I will stand up for Apple all over the place, but I have been increasingly frustrated with their communication, this needs to change.
Wil Shipley wrote a blog post on the Mojave Experiment whereby Microsoft “proved” that Vista is a great operation system. I think Wil makes a couple of really powerful points in his article, but there is one that I feel he leaves out. These people were shown what they thought to be the NEXT version of Windows. I think there is probably some tolerance built in for people looking at what they believe to be the next version. Something like, “If this OS was ready, they’d be shipping it already, so this probably just some sort of prototype.” If they said you had to use this OS, starting today until the end of time, I’m sure they would have had more questions and perhaps formed a very different view on the whole situation. ...
I shop for mostly non-fiction books. Most of these books tend to be on new and emerging technologies. When I’m purchasing a book on a technology, I really want to know the content of the book before I purchase it. What I really want is a table of contents. Just a list of the chapter lists and maybe even a more detailed list of the topics covered in each chapter, but at least some form of the table of contents would be very helpful in my purchasing decision. ...