Archive for the 'apple' Category

Running list of places AT&T has failed me

Friday, October 24th, 2008

After several years of relatively complaint free wireless service with Verizon, I switched to AT&T so I could get an iPhone. It’s been a few months since I’ve switched and so far, here’s where AT&T has failed me:

US Open at Flushing Meadows in Queens, NY: No Service for the first several hours I was in [...]

Mmm… Apple TV

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Thanks a lot Apple…

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

I pre-ordered an Apple Airport Extreme Base Station on February 6. It didn’t ship until very early this morning. Apple let me know when I placed my order that it would ship by February 28. So, what’s the problem you might ask? Well, Apple said “ship by February 28″. That means it was within the [...]

Vista apparently not worth the long wait

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Erika Jonietz, a long time Microsoft apologist (self-proclaimed, nonetheless), found Vista so underwhelming and disappointing that she switched to OS X. I've never seen so lukewarm a reaction to a major operating system release. The overwhelming consensus seems to be that Microsoft rushed things (even though Vista is long overdue) and released an OS that's [...]

Liz Phair at the Apple Store

Friday, March 12th, 2004

Liz Phair will be at the Michigan Avenue Apple Store tomorrow at 2pm. You’ll probably have to get there pretty early, though.

mini-me iPod

Tuesday, January 6th, 2004

The rumors were true. Apple released the iPod mini today. It weighs in at only 3.6 ounces with a capacity of 4GB. Apple probably chose a 4GB hard drive, in part, so they could claim that it holds 1,000 songs. Other than its smaller size, the new iPod mini seems to have all the features [...]

Chicago tops for Apple

Friday, December 26th, 2003

Chicago’s Michigan Avenue Apple store boasts the highest traffic of all the Apple stores in the world. The Michigan Avenue store is the second of four stores that Apple has opened in the area. The first Apple store in the greater Chicagoland area was opened in Schaumburg in Woodfield mall. While it was a nice [...]

G5 Laptop?

Friday, December 19th, 2003

Alex Salkever thinks that a G5 laptop might be a reality next year: BW Online | December 17, 2003 | A G5 Laptop? Maybe Next Year.

Rolling Stone interviews Steve Jobs

Tuesday, December 9th, 2003

Because, as you may know, almost every song and CD is made on a Mac—it’s recorded on a Mac, it’s mixed on a Mac, the artwork’s done on a Mac. Almost every artist I’ve met has an iPod, and most of the music execs now have iPods. And one of the reasons Apple was able [...]

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