Hi Daniel,
It was a pleasant diversion reading your reverie/brain dump. I'm not too sure,
however, that the other Woolworths customers were as thrilled that I partially
blocked an isle of the fruit section for 5 minute. :-) Such is the change in my
data consumption habits enabled by Apple.
Cheers,
Carlo
Sent from my iPhone
On 12/02/2011, at 11:45, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote:
Hi Carlo
Yes, completely agree.
Like you say, it doesn't take much sometimes for people to work things. The
flash drives was a large one, as you mentioned. I remember reading once that
no one else could get a good market of a particular one has someone had
bought them all and supply was dried up. Needless to say, not long after a
new model iPod. Etc etc.
Even Apple themselves had done some oops, we did that too early, like
accidentally making live their Apple site with a new product before it was
announced. Not for long as it's taken down just as quick, but it's always
long enough for someone to catch a glimpse of it.
I think even Time Magazine did a slip up once with a front page product too
early.
With some many angles and media and digital content to cover, it's
surprising it doesn't happen more often. So it's all done very well.
And there will always be people who know how to read all the clues
(2+2=4),..and then those who read the clues wrong (2+2=5). :o)
That's what makes it all fun and exciting.
I always love the forums before and after announcements. All the things that
should be or will be in the un-announced model. Then the complaining after
it as it isn't there, and how could they do that,..lol.
Was interested to see the camera side is that same, thanks for that Susan.
Good to see it happens with other products as well. Lol ;)
And yes Apple are a bit forward with their thinking, which is good thing.
They know what to do before most. Once in a blue moon, it might be a bit
radical and causes a stir (missing Firewire on Ai MacBook,..the online
petition for that grew massively and very quickly). Next model revision we
had the MacBookPro 13 with Firewire again (and same on the white
MacBook),..then it disappeared again with the current white MacBook. But not
much a price difference to move up to 13 MacBookPro.
But yes, overall they add or remove things before others.
Omg,..you mean I can't use my 3.5 floppy disks anymore!?!?! Oh noes!!! :o(
(sarcasm intended). I still have a USB Floppy Drive kicking around for the
times I need to access something for clients. I think the last time I used
it was a year ago,..lol.
SSD Drives I can see as a good thing given their Safety, so once pricing
is a bit better then yes we may see that a lot more. I'm not sold yet on non
Optical Drives in machines. Certainly in some aspects yes, digital downloads
are fine for some things. But for others,...hmm yeh. I'm not sure I would
like to download 8GB of a particular software I'd just purchased. Not here
in Australia with our internet. Though, lets say software came on USB thumb
drives (like the new MacBook Air software CD which is the tiniest of tiny
USB drive) then I might be persuaded. With the cost of USB stick now so
cheap, that may be a great alternative. Lose the Optical drive and if we
might to buy we have either an external burner to share around all machines,
Remote Disk feature for the one machine in the house, and/or USB drive for
certain software.
Can you imagine downloading CS5 Design Premium without an optical drive.
It's like 2 DVD's and then some! Lol.
So yeh,...I'm not sold as yet. However in saying that, I've changed out the
optical drive for two clients with laptops for the SSD Drive in the optical
drive holder. So they now run a 256GB SSD as their main drive and a 750GB
7200rpm 2.5 drive as their data drive in their 15 MacBook Pro.
They do still have an external SuperDrive though. And Remote Disk in the
office as well.
So useful for them. For me, out on the road with the laptop, I still have
times I need to access disks or things, so couldn't really see not having
it. And carry something else to read discs,..well, maybe that would be an
option. But it's more kit to cart around,... I almost need a suitcase as it
is now,..lol :)
But I'm sure when Apple do it, there will be outcry again, like it was with
the 3.5 floppy, but it doesn't take long for that to change.
I remember working in an Apple reseller shop at the time the iMac's come out
without them. People would say oh, what will I do. Once you explained to
them, how often did you use it, or why did you want it and explained
anything small enough to fit on a floppy can now be emailed or for backup
their's better options (zip etc at that time) that hold a lot more as file
sizes are bigger etc. So it was just a matter of showing the alternatives.
(I'm also answering my own thing there about Optical drives,..lol,..almost).
But yes,..I think we'll see a lot more change in the
