Apple is being Apple

Apple Computer, Inc. announced the long awaited iPhone at yesterday's MacWorld conference in San Francisco.

The awesome phone is really cutting edge and way, way ahead any of it's competition. It is a combined iPod digital music and video player, phone, and internet communications device (meaning Web surfing and email). With a 2mp camera on the back, a proximity sensor, touch screen, and technology as only Apple can introduce.

As to be expected from any Apple product it is defective by design, and partly ruined by vendor locked software and tight digital restrictions management technology (DRM).

Apple's other big release at the MacWorld cinference where the AppleTV, previously known as code name iTV. This great set-top box with excellent specifications could have been a great product, but there is just too many restrictions on it for it to be any fun ones you start getting tiered of the default configurations.

Great Apple, but you really need to let peopledevelop more than with HTML+JavaScript based Widgets (as seen in Mac OS X) for your iPhone!

Oh, I hope there will be a GnuPhone and maybe even GnuTsVi proejcts soon that will open up these great devices! Though with Apple's 200+ patents in the iPhone alone I doupt it would be possible to even run anything else than Mac OS on these devices.

Apple is just being Apple… Speaking of; they have dropped the computer. No, not the Mac product line, but the Computer from Apple Computer, Inc. and will now only be known as Apple, Inc.

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5 comments

And I halfly expected you to talk garbage bout the iPhone, switching over to Ubuntu and all (just a typical syndrome on switchers).

I don't really see any restrictions other than not being able to play 1080p/i HD movies on the AppleTV.

Works on both PC and Mac, and plays anything iTunes can play (including third party codecs, such as DivX and XviD).

It would suck, though, if it can't play DVDs inserted in a Mac.

Didn't quite get an answer to that, and concidering Front Row can't share inserted DVDs, and iTunes not playing DVDs, AppleTV probably wont.

Comment by Magnus Damli at 2007-01-11 @726.

Hardware wise the iPhone is a really neat player, but software wise it is to restrictive.

Can you play OGGs (FLAC, Vorbis, Theora)? Or Real?

Comment by Daniel Aleksandersen at 2007-01-11 @818.

The iPhone doesn't support or allow third-party applications, thus it isn't really that much better than the other phones - considering the vast amount of apps for Symbian OS, Blackberry and Palm. It's fancy and all, and seems to be a great phone, but it's faux-OS X without the Xcode part.

«Apple tv» (which is the correct way of writing it) will flop, and you can't even use it on a normal TV. You have to have an «enhanced-TV» or HDTV.

Comment by Christian Knappskog at 2007-01-11 @891.

…and as almost no one have an HDTV yet, it is not likely to catch on. I almost pre-ordered one out of Apple fanboyism before I came to myself and aborted the order.

Comment by Daniel Aleksandersen at 2007-01-11 @896.

Apple can convert Ogg Vorbis to Apple Lossless, I believe.

There are almost no other TVs other than HDTVs in the USA; Apple's main market stream.

Are they really not allowing for third party programs, though? Doesn't sound like Apple… I'm sure it's because they want to make shure you can't crash the phone or make viruses for it, thus a better choice would be to disallow third party programs.

Comment by Magnus Damli at 2007-01-12 @908.