iPad

[LoopStationZebra]

The last 4 posts should be stricken from the record.

[Ryanmf]

Okay, fine, here's something that may be relevant to our interests: SampleLab just dropped to $0.99… BUY! BUY! BUY!

(Though if you really believe Apple can do no wrong, needs to be tirelessly defended, and must never be made fun of for any reason ever, you should try working for them for a while.)

[regretfullySaid]

At least he didn't say "This is shit, just pure shit."

Heh, right, but he set her up that time.

I'd like to hear more about Burrell Smith, though, even what those rambling letters were he threw in Jobs house.
I read a blog more recently that the writer came across Smith on the street in SF looking like an old bearded bum, as is not much surprise when you've spiraled down schizophrenia. I had a friend like that in high school when he went from passing as normal to point of no return.

[Ryanmf]

Yet at the same time I can understand being frustrated when you have higher expectations from, well, humanity in general.

Steve's standards are what made Apple Apple. They also nearly unmade Apple, but then they made Pixar and NeXT and later made Apple into even more than anyone had imagined it could have been. I've never had a problem with him being a dick about it, especially as it pertains to him being a dick to his employees in the service of getting shit done. Also, as a prodigious swearer myself, I think people who use fuckwords as much as Steve did (obviously not in keynotes, but you won't have to look far for stories about his dirty mouth in meetings, on conference calls, etc) to drive a point home get a bad rap. Who the fuck cares If it's rude, those words mean something that other words don't, and sometimes you really just need to get somebody's fucking attention, you know?

(I wrote a bunch about Steve the night he died, don't really want to rehash it all but you can read that tome at http://makemistak.es if you want.)

[regretfullySaid]

These tights are making me thirsty.

[Ryanmf]

I do think the world of technological discourse would be much better off if everyone didn't feel as if they had to pick sides, but that's true of everything, isn't it?

Since you reminded me of it, I'll just leave this Mitch Hedberg joke here: "Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. We apologize for the fact that you can still get up there."

All the rest of this is semi-related to what you wrote a post or two ago and not at all to do with your most recent comments:

I don't think his resentment toward Bill Gates was truly rooted in who stole the mouse from who, or who dropped acid and who didn't. I think he resented that Bill may not have been completely honest about who he was and what he stood for, whereas Steve laid it all out the whole time.

They were both ultracompetetive motherfuckers, both huge geeks who saw the future and found themselves in positions of responsibility to bring it about. Steve decided he didn't mind being the guy to give society a firm shake and slap it across the face a couple of times if that's what was required to prepare it to be springboarded into our current version of the future. Because of that, he was the one who got portrayed as the anarchist, the rabble rouser, the guy who thinks he knows best and wants to make sure you know about it (even though in a way I bet he enjoyed it) whereas Gates acted so boring and vanilla that no label ever stuck to him. To this day, what do you really think you know about Bill Gates' personality, about his passions? And when you consider how freakishly smart he is (and Steve knew this bit way better than any of us ever could) you have to imagine that's at least somewhat intentional.

So Bill and Steve decided to make software for humans, and Steve said "Look at me! I'm a human, too! I've hired some of the best humans, and we're certain we know exactly what the rest of you humans want. If you don't want it now, you're sure as shit going to want it when you see how much the humans around you love it." Bill obscured his humanity (not that he ever had any responsibility as a businessman to do otherwise), and somehow, almost by default, that translated in a PR sense into Microsoft making the everyman computer, and Apple making niche products for the condescension set. For smartasses and artistes, you know the type. But that was never the intended outcome, Steve always wanted the Mac to be the everyman computer, the iPhone to be the everyman smartphone. He just expected he could find ways to make really good versions of those things, and worked hard to find ways to make it happen. And once he reached the point that he felt like he got it right, or right enough to ship, he would not shut the fuck up about it. I don't even feel like I have a clear idea whether Bill Gates likes Microsoft products. I think that's where the disconnect was.

Re: Butterfly effect--without the iPhone/iOS there's no question in my mind that Android as we know it would never have existed. What would Google's mobile OS look like if Windows Mobile and Blackberry OS had been the only precedent when it was Google's time to shine?

[LoopStationZebra]

He should have busted Kottke down to half wages and mopping the fucking floors after his insolence.

[LoopStationZebra]

I love how utterly fucking pathetic and underwhelming the new Windows phone is..... omfg.

Is this the kind of mind blowing revelatory experience we can expect from their first true tablet?

omfg. Assholes.

Each new non-Apple product that's released is further proof that unfocused brains and talent doesn't mean shit.

And how's about CNN declaring that Bezos is the new Steve Jobs? omfg.

[starving student]

riddle me this, a friend of mine just bought me animoog as a little gifty, my friend does not own an ipad and I do not own an ipad but I will in the nearest of not that near but pretty near for someone who was planning on waiting near future, my friend told me that she had to use her apple id, and apple birthcertificate and apple driverslicense blah blah just to get the damn thing to download into her itunes app that she doesn't even use.
ok
my question is when I get my ipad am I going to have to resurrect steve jobs and go all sam and dean from supernatural on his ass just to get that one app that decided the purchase of the ipad for me to work with said ipad, since the app was not purchased with my own apple secret code
or will they make it painless for me to enjoy the app?

[Ryanmf]

You'll have to log in with her AppleID/password both to download the app and each time it needs to be updated.

You can absolutely have Apps/Media from multiple AppleIDs on one device, though it can get a bit messy, and there is a limit on how many devices can be "authorized" on one account (I know the limit for computers is 5, device limit may be 7 or 10 or something like that, I don't recall).

[beats me]

riddle me this, a friend of mine just bought me animoog as a little gifty, my friend does not own an ipad and I do not own an ipad but I will in the nearest of not that near but pretty near for someone who was planning on waiting near future, my friend told me that she had to use her apple id, and apple birthcertificate and apple driverslicense blah blah just to get the damn thing to download into her itunes app that she doesn't even use.
ok
my question is when I get my ipad am I going to have to resurrect steve jobs and go all sam and dean from supernatural on his ass just to get that one app that decided the purchase of the ipad for me to work with said ipad, since the app was not purchased with my own apple secret code
or will they make it painless for me to enjoy the app?

You lost me when you said she downloaded it to her computer. I have no idea what she did there, but here’s what she should have done.

Next to the button you click to buy anything on iTunes there’s a pull down menu and from there, there is an option to Gift. Select that and then you gift it to the email address connected to the Apple ID of the person you are gifting it to. There’s a few more steps that are self explanatory.

You’ll then get an email letting you know somebody gifted an app to you. From that email you can download it to your iTunes library on your computer. Once you get an iPad it will install it.

[LoopStationZebra]

Couldn't be easier.

[beats me]

I know it's pretty old now, but has anyone seen the documentary The Pixar Story? I just watched it last night and it was actually good. Lots of Steve Jobs clips too! It's on Netflix Instant right now.

I will have to put it in my queue.

[beats me]

riddle me this, a friend of mine just bought me animoog as a little gifty, my friend does not own an ipad and I do not own an ipad but I will in the nearest of not that near but pretty near for someone who was planning on waiting near future, my friend told me that she had to use her apple id, and apple birthcertificate and apple driverslicense blah blah just to get the damn thing to download into her itunes app that she doesn't even use.
ok
my question is when I get my ipad am I going to have to resurrect steve jobs and go all sam and dean from supernatural on his ass just to get that one app that decided the purchase of the ipad for me to work with said ipad, since the app was not purchased with my own apple secret code
or will they make it painless for me to enjoy the app?

You lost me when you said she downloaded it to her computer. I have no idea what she did there, but here’s what she should have done.

Next to the button you click to buy anything on iTunes there’s a pull down menu and from there, there is an option to Gift. Select that and then you gift it to the email address connected to the Apple ID of the person you are gifting it to. There’s a few more steps that are self explanatory.

You’ll then get an email letting you know somebody gifted an app to you. From that email you can download it to your iTunes library on your computer. Once you get an iPad it will install it.

AND

God bless her heart for the effort, but if she did buy it for herself on her computer thinking she could just email you the app later, then that shit won’t fly. I’d give her the dollar back and show her how to do it the right way.

And while this may seem like extreme bullshit that she can’t just give you the app off her computer it’s what we call PREVENTING PIRACY ON A MASS SCALE AND TAKING MONEY AWAY FROM APPLE AND MORE IMPORTANTLY DEVELOPERS.

[beats me]

Garageband is or will soon be available on the iPhone! It's a universal app so if you already have the iPad version your ass is covered.

Despite my first sentence ending with "!", I really don't give much of a shit about this. I'm semi meh on music apps on the iPad and a definite meh on iPhone music apps.