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Steve Jobs talking Smack???

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According to Wired Magazine, Steve Jobs was caught talking smack. He was addressing an audience of Apple Employees at a town hall meeting in Cupertino, where he apparently let into Google, and Adobe. This is not that suprising, coming from the same man who said that Microsoft “Made third rate products” (Not that we really disagree with him on some of their stuff…IE). In the past hes also said Microsoft had no taste, to which I disagree, (Case in point: Surface Computing). This time he has gone a little too far, saying Google’s Mantra of “Don’t be evil”, is “Bullshit”. Personally, I think the only part of Google that I have had a problem with is them helping the Chinese censor the internet, but that has stopped, Hey at least they are trying. Then he goes further on to say that Adobe is “Lazy” and that “Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash. The world is moving to HTML5.” Personally, I don’t see where he got that they are “Lazy” considering your talking about the people who brought you Dreamweaver, Adobe Air, Coldfusion and on and on. In fact, I think that Adobe is a pretty awesome company.

Now I have loved every product that Apple has come out with. I am even considering a Macbook Pro as my next laptop purchase, but I have made it no secret that I think the Ipad is crap. This little hissy fit thrown by Jobs really comes at a bad time for apple, considering that #Ipad is one of the most talked about things on twitter and elsewhere in the Social Media Arena. I love Steve Jobs, he’s one of my heros. I do however think this was bad form on his part.

What do you think? Drop me a comment and let me know!

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Apples New A4 Processor

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apple Ipad a4 chipIt’s called the A4, and the most obvious difference with the chip in the iPhone 3GS, and that of the Ipad is speed. The iPad’s chip runs at 1GHz,Whereas the Iphone 3gs runs at about 600MHz (0.6GHz). At the Apple event in San Francisco on Wednesday, the A4 was said to be “the most advanced chip that apple has done yet”. It adds speed yes, but even more important is the fact that it does so, while keeping power a factor. The A4 chip is so efficient that the Ipad is expected to get up to 10 hours of use on a single charge. The A4 is a system on a chip or SOC. This means it integrates the main processor, graphics chip and other functions (memory controller, Etc.) on one piece of silicon. It is a similar SOC chip structure to what is currently being used in the Iphone, Nexus One and my beloved Motorola Droid. Currently chip maker Intel is working on creating a similar chip with their “Moorestown” Atom processor project.

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The Ipad, and why some people are disappointed

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The Ipad

The Ipad...Looks like it sucks

Ok, Ok, so maybe the picture is a little much, but there are alot of folks who are not thrilled by the ipad. Why?

No Multitasking

The Ipad is running iphone OS 3.2 which means, one thing at a time. The lack of ability to multitask is a big deal breaker for some. I think that knowing apple, they will fix this soon, probably before it even ships.

No USB Port

Yes, thats right no USB port. You guess it, the freaking Ipod connector. This sucks because it means if you want to use it with anything else, you must buy stuff specifically for it. Also known as more expensive crap that’s not in your collection of 50 million USB devices.

No SD Card

Ok, so I understand the no USB port thing, everyone likes more money. But no SD card. Now this is where I draw the line. One would assume that at least with an SD card you can take all your EBooks and put them on the SD card and put it on the Ipad but no, not with the Ipad. This also means forget extra storage if you have more than 16, 32, or 64GB worth of books…your screwed.

No Flash

So imagine your surfing and pull up that cool new flash game or video or something, and it simply doesn’t play. Well thats because Apple hates the lack of control with the adobe flash package. Its bad enough on the Iphone, but now the Ipad too.

No HDMI

Wanna hook the Ipad to the T.V., too bad. There is no support for HDMI. Of course Apple has been reluctant to add HDMI support to ANY of their products so this should be no surprise, but when they hint that this is the perfect toy for your living room, it would be kinda nice to be able to hook it up to your T.V. right?

No Open SDK

Yes my fellow developers, you must sign an NDA before receiving the SDK. Not really a shocker here, they do this with everything they have. This means developers cannot talk about the platform without making sure the other developers they are working with have also signed an NDA.

No Camera

In the Social Media age, you didn’t put a camera on it? WTF? This means no video conferencing, no skype video, no facebook/ myspace/ picassa images. NONE. This device is totally for watching social media, but not participating in.

Now to be fair, there was no way that the Ipad could have lived up the INSANE amount of hype about it, but damn did they even try?

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