Every year it’s the same thing. WORST.KEYNOTE.EVAR! WHERE IS ITABLET! STEVE SHOULD BUY ME A PONY! PC World wrote a laundry list of things that they wanted to see but didn’t get to see at WWDC and, like a 16-year-old whose boyfriend is supposed to hug her and kiss her and stay with her at the mall all weekend and respond to all of her texts immediately if not sooner, they get pissy when they don’t get what they want. A pox on them, I say.
What were they looking for? An iPhone Nano. An iTablet. An FM transmitter. First, it takes a while to make good hardware. We know there will be a tablet. No confirmation on a Nano. But an FM transmitter? You bought an iPhone. You think Apple wants to knock out all the car adapter manufacturers in one fell swoop? Hell, the iPhone is one of the few phones that has a whole constellation of accessories. Almost every WinMo phone needs FM out, not Cupertino’s darling.
But the biggest gripe is flash support. TUAW puts it best:
Adobe needs to get Flash working properly on the Mac first. If my MacBook Pro’s 2.6 GHz processor pegs at 80% while watching lo-res YouTube videos, what chance does the iPhone’s far slower processor have? And if the Flash plugin crashes the full Safari browser so often that Apple has gone out of their way to sandbox browser plugins in Snow Leopard, how much of a rush should Apple be in to do the same thing on a platform whose small size and relatively low processing power necessitates more streamlined software? Yes, let’s have Apple dive into Flash support for the iPhone right away, and see what it gets you: one hour of battery life, flashing banner ads all over the place for you to accidentally click when you’re just trying to scroll the page, and Mobile Safari crashing every five minutes.
Eg-freaking-zactly. Come on, people. What does Flash add to the user experience? Flash games, perhaps, but show me one time it’s been more valuable than a stand-alone, Internet-enabled application. You really need in-line YouTube watching? No.
This is all true, but apple did fix the safari crashing the whole browser with the new way they are doing tabs, like google chrome has.
I think my biggest gripe aside from the iphone biz is that they consider all of the iphones in the world OS X users.
I don’t know if anyone wrote up anything about this, but I think it is a load of cow dung that they “fixed” their numbers to include all 40 million shipped units of iphones/itouches in their “We tripled our OS X user base in one year!” rant.
The only things that I walked away from in the keynote is that they misrepresented a lot of thing. First, the misdirection of the number of OS X users. Second, the upgrade prices from going to the standard 4Gb of RAM in the MacPro line to 8Gb ($1000). And finally, the prices of the iPhone 3GS. There is no reason why people should have had to read the “fine print” to find out that they weren’t afterall going to be able to pay $199 or $299.
It wasn’t the worst keynote ever, but it sure did have a lot of BS in it.
I would like them to continue bashing Microsoft though and then when they present their own software have it fail like the Line 6 demo. Watching them back pedal is amusing.
People always have to read the fine print with they are not eligble for an upgrade.
This is nothing new, every cell phone carrier does it and if I hear one more person complain about it I am going to lose my shit.
Having an iPhone does not make you special or exempt from the contract you signed!
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I never said it does make me exempt. I’m talking about apple once again misconstruing facts when it would have been just as easy to say “New customers will pay this….” Especially since last year they went, “Hey everyone… you get it for this much!”
I’m upset because they left the assumption that it would be that price.
BTW, I wouldn’t “lose your shit” about anything on the internet. Life does have a bigger purpose than someone’s (even my own) lame internet rant.
People are just ungrateful, unsatisfied, self-indulgent boobs. Why not be thankful for the amazingly convenient life this type of technology ALREADY provides? Or just be grateful for the fact that you can even afford to care about something as superfluous as what is coming out on the next iPhone.
Why do I want Flash? So I can watch Hulu on my iPod Touch.
There. I said it. Was that simple enough for you Mr. Biggs? :P
and maybe a hulu standalone app wouldn’t be better?
I’d accept that too — but then what happens if I want to watch a Public Domain film off of Archive.org (like His Girl Friday — which is frickin’ hilarious)?
Maybe I’m too much of a cynic, but I also don’t think Apple would ever let a Hulu app through their approval system, as it might be seen as competing against iTunes’s TV episode sales.
Yahoo! Stat Tracker. That’s all I want. Pretty please.
Pox! No one awards or wishes a pox on anyone anymore. And it is a shame.
Well done! Bring on more poxes, poxs’, poxi?
It would be nice to have the option yourself, true?
(If you’re seeing lower performance, then try another browser, or refreshing that browser — both often help on Macs. It would be great to see improved plugin integration.)
jd/adobe
using Raymond Carver’s picture for this post is an insult to him. doesn’t help that Biggs added a cap to the shot. disturbing. really disturbing.