The Process

Oh yeah, SAG still doesn't have a deal

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:12:25 -0700

Oh yeah, SAG still doesn't have a deal: Sticking point? All together now: “new media.”

Finally: free WiFi for ATT customers at Starbuck's. Supposedly.

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:15:41 -0700

Finally: free WiFi for ATT customers at Starbuck's. Supposedly.: Still waiting for the nationwide rollout of what was active last year in Sonoma, of all places: the ability to identify and immediately download the song currently playing while you’re waiting for your coffee. As you can tell from the story, this feature has had a lot of false starts.

Rumors starting to build on new MacBooks

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:05:48 -0700

Rumors starting to build on new MacBooks: This from - appropriately - MacRumors.

As the iPhones start to make it into people's hands...

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:46:00 -0700

As the iPhones start to make it into people's hands...: … we’re starting to hear more about what new users think. My biggest complaint: battery life. I’ve taken a fully charged phone into editing for the last two days. I admit I’m leaving everything on - 3G, WiFi, GPRS - but with only two or three actual calls, and what I consider a moderate amount of dicking around on the web, I’ve run out of juice both days. Literally drained the battery. Five hours of talk time - the specs - seems a pipe dream unless you turned everything else off.

NOW I get it!

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:08:12 -0700

NOW I get it!

Video

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:59:56 -0700

Amazon's game-changer

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:55:58 -0700

Amazon's game-changer: They’re streaming 40,000 movies and TV shows to your house… and they’re storing them for you. It’s the power of the cloud, I keep telling you. A good article from NewTeeVee.

Apple: "Oops."

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:57:19 -0700

Apple: "Oops.": Acknowledgement of MobileMe problems. I’ll take the 30 days.

Twitter spends some of its VC cash

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:35:27 -0700

Twitter spends some of its VC cash: An interesting story to follow.

Fox to actually try year-round development

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:23:00 -0700

Fox to actually try year-round development: People have been talking about this, and heading in this direction, for a while. The strike accelerated things. I’m all for it. From TVDecoder.

Guess how many iPhones we sold this weekend?

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:55:03 -0700

Guess how many iPhones we sold this weekend?: A million. Guess that explains the lines.

merlin: Science Pandora makes my whiteboy indie rock...

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:54:29 -0700

merlin:

Science

Pandora makes my whiteboy indie rock proclivities sound like something I’ve given a lot of thought to. Which I love. Because I haven’t.

merlin: Andre is killing at the hot new iPhone game. Look at...

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:38:17 -0700

merlin:

Andre is killing at the hot new iPhone game.

Look at his poor battery indicator.

AppleInsider's first review of the App Store's Social Networking category

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:37:51 -0700

AppleInsider's first review of the App Store's Social Networking category: I’m trying Twitteriffic.

I'm liking my 3G

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:37:13 -0700

As is becoming my pattern, I got the phone on Saturday, the day after the launch. I went for white, and bought a case just because I need a case until the kind of case I want comes out and I can buy THAT case. Know what I’m talking about?

The ATT store had maybe 25, but I was number eight in line by virtue of getting there at 7AM for a supposed 8AM opening. Which turned out to be 9AM. At least, it was supposed to be 9, but the computers “weren’t online” so we waited a bit longer. Then they started admitting people, FOUR AT A TIME. When I finally got in the nice guy who helped my began by warning “This is going to take a while.” Start to finish it was maybe thirty minutes, which included about five of the guy trying to reinsert the SIM card into my original iPhone, a task he never accomplished, leaving me with an unusable original phone that was suppposed to be going home to my wife. His advice: take it to the Apple Store. But I fixed it myself after about two hours of cogitation and modification of various sheets of plastic. That’s the kind of guy I am.

Anyway, I’m liking the phone. And, why shouldn’t I, it’s essentially the same as the first… especially since I DON’T GET 3G IN MY HOUSE!

Everyone says the same thing:

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:31:19 -0700

Everyone says the same thing:: Stop thinking you’re getting a 3G today. From iPodObserver

Gruber on Day One of the App Store. I’m still waiting for...

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:30:00 -0700

Gruber on Day One of the App Store. I’m still waiting for MobileMe to get its shit together before I take the plunge.

AppleInsider: Wait a week, get your phone in 15 minutes

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:22:04 -0700

AppleInsider: Wait a week, get your phone in 15 minutes: I cruised by four ATT stores and an Apple store this morning at nine. The lines did not look good, especially at the Apple store. An ATT employee told me that Apple had a LOT more phones in store than did ATT - but the Apple line was around the block and out of sight. Frankly, I can wait until tomorrow.

The photo’s kind of scary, but press is press.

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:01:42 -0700

The photo’s kind of scary, but press is press.

.Mac is down

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:19:04 -0700

You know what that means: MobileMe is almost here, along with the iPhone App Store. The iTunes update was pushed out last night.