Comments on: Apple, how I wish I could hate thee…

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:24:19 +0000

oops, I meant higher persistence rates (ghosting) rather than higher refresh rates in my explanation above. I think you knew what I meant.

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:21:56 +0000

I guess when it “snows” where you live, there’s a real “blizzard.”

By: Head Geek

Head Geek — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:56:51 +0000

As an update: today I received not one, but two copies of Snow Leopard — the original one I ordered (quite late), and the replacement for it (on time). Oh well.

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:20:36 +0000

Tim Cook, his likely successor, isn’t a visionary. He isn’t a bean counter either though, he can best be described as an production efficiency engineer type who is known to have a cool head who functions ordinarily as an offset to Job’s “creative” personality. He’s great to have on the Apple team, to use corporate-speak , but there really isn’t anyone lined up with what President George H.W. Bush called “The Vision Thing”.

By: Head Geek

Head Geek — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:59:00 +0000

I wish him good health (as I do almost everyone), but I do hope that his successor has absorbed the good parts of his vision, for whenever that becomes necessary.

I linked to the "fanboi" article more for the term -- so people who don't follow Apple news would know that it's a deliberate spelling, for instance.

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:23:38 +0000

By the way, the fanboi article you linked to about Apple's expensive monitor doesn't mention the real reason for the price and quality. It uses not TFT, like most of their laptops and iMacs even do now, but IPS, like the more expensive Eizo and the top of the line professional monitors of Dell and HP that are similarly priced. As a result, it has higher refresh rates, and is unsuitable for games but color that can be used by certain types of professionals who have to have the best color representation in an LCD. (TFT displays dither 6 bit color often, that's good enough for the average consumer, but is clearly of a lower level quality to anyone in a side by side comparison.)

That having been said, I have an acer 22" monitor, with probably the worst and most cheap panel available of that size from a major manufacturer, like almost everyone else uses at that price point. Price is definitely a factor, and I can't say I don't enjoy the large panel at an affordable price.

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:09:46 +0000

Steve Jobs is not in good health, and although he has his faults, I think the company is for a large part his vision of “quality” as in Pirsig’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” sense of “quality”. He’s a perfectionist and wouldn’t have his company behave in a way that was totally contrary to his wishes (note I don’t say the customer’s wishes, which is the partial reason for the problems with the appstore and the less open and often idiosyncratic hardware and software…) Better hope his new liver lasts, I know I do.

By: Head Geek

Head Geek — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:05:20 +0000

I had completely forgotten that one.

By: c-square

c-square — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:54:24 +0000

Now you’ve found out first-hand why “Apple tops customer satisfaction survey” (see: http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2008/08/20/apple-tops-customer-satisfaction-survey/ and the comments therein) ;D