Recent Comments:
Is AT&T behind the rejection and removal of Google Voice apps? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 28th 2009 11:48AM "They are a shitty, greedy company, and that's all they'll ever be."
But here lies the problem. AT&T is indeed a shitty, greedy company, but what of the competition?
Verizon is an equally shitty, greedy company; if there's one thing we've learned from the way they use BREW, they'd be more restrictive with apps than AT&T, not less. Plus, they use CDMA as of right now and the LTE shift is years away.
Sprint and T-Mobile are less shitty, less greedy companies - but Sprint has committed itself to CDMA and wimax with no intention to change course, while T-Mobile's 3G is on bands that aren't used anywhere else in the world and therefore require special radios. And both companies have less extensive networks than AT&T or Verizon.
This leaves regional carriers, who would be the most illsuited to Apple. The remaining regional carriers - Cricket, US Cellular, metroPCS et al - don't have coverage in most major cities, where there are more youths and more businesspeople - customers who have craving for technology, the need for a data plan, and the disposable income for both. Even Alltel, the largest regional carrier before it was acquired by VZ, was missing from the major, urban markets, and metroPCS is just entering major cities now. Regionals have their networks centered in the country, where populations are older, poorer and less tech savvy. The other reality is that now that Dobson and SunCom have been acquired, all regional carriers are CDMA - which is the very reason that Sprint and VZ were scratched off. Finally, using many regional carriers instead of one large carrier isn't the way the Apple 'experience' works: it lacks the simplicity of "this is the one carrier, these are the only plans" that Apple gets with a national.
Unless the mobile market radically shifts, Apple is tethered to AT&T.
Palm updates Palm Pre webOS software, "fixes" iTunes bork {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 23rd 2009 11:27PM I have to doubt that Palm has the resources to make an iTunes quality media player. Pre and all - they are not yet that much furhter from bankruptcy than they were twelve months ago.
More importantly, iTunes is fully integrated with other OS X applications - why should I use one program for phone music and one program for every other OS X program?
Oxford English Dictionary back to the Mac {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 19th 2009 2:11AM My library provides a free subscription to the online version, which has the advantages of not needing a disk and having a more pleasant UI.
Many libraries, especially school and university libraries, do too.
Check with yours.
Oxford English Dictionary back to the Mac {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 19th 2009 2:09AM Does not compare.
The Pine Tree State orders 64,000 MacBooks, with more to come {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 1st 2009 12:20PM Happy Canada Day
More to the point of the post, my school didn't give us Macs.
They didn't give anyone any computer. They didn't have laptop racks.
The classrooms each had one computer for the teacher, but the students used books.
Why weren't you in line this morning? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 19th 2009 9:25PM I go back and forth, half the year in Canada and half the year in the US, so anything with a contract is out of the question.
Worldwide Mac: Using the iPhone in New Zealand {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 15th 2009 1:05AM It's funny, and I couldn't help but think as I read this article:
That's ridiculous!
Data caps, lack of competition, extortionist pricing....
Oh, wait... it's just like Canada!
HDTV Listings for May 12, 2009 {Engadget HD}
May 12th 2009 5:42PM PBS never shows up as what you're watching tonight...
No one else wants to find out how Madoff did it on Frontline tonight?
T-Mobile announces tiny new "embedded SIM" for connected devices {Engadget Mobile}
Apr 23rd 2009 6:44PM It's fine, even impressive - so long as it doesn't get anywhere near my T-Mobile phone.
PBS launches online video portal {Engadget HD}
Apr 23rd 2009 4:26PM PBS has also been better than other networks at posting videos. They had shows online far before any other network - I remember watching Frontline online TEN YEARS ago - and they never take old episodes down. The only bad thing was that before now you had to go to each show's individual site.
