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There’s No Winning With Whiners
Off the Deep End
As everyone reading this surely knows by now, Steve Jobs strode onto the stage at Macworld ‘07 and announced a product he proclaimed would change the world. It’s hyperbole, sure, but if Jobs has his way it won’t be too far from the truth. Most everyone who heard the announcement - from keynote attendees to reporters to Internet tech fans - was intrigued and impressed to at least some degree by what was presented. Many of them rushed online to their favorite message board to discuss what they’d seen, where of course they encountered that most charming of Internet personalities, somebody I like to call Guy Who Was Not Impressed. I’m certain you’ve met, probably on more than one occasion.
You see, no matter what products are announced at any given Stevenote, there are always a group of people who find no use whatsoever for any of them. They believe that their needs are the only ones that matter. They act like these new products will be foisted upon them, as though perhaps Steve Jobs will break into their homes and Superglue iPhones to their hands.1 “I don’t care about all that other stuff,” they say, “I just want to…
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Microsoft Unveils Office:Mac 2008, Mac Equivalent of the Ribbon
From the “Microsoft on the Mac” card table out in the hall…
If you went to Macworld and were curious enough to check out the Microsoft booth, you already know all about the new version of Office:Mac. You will have especially heard of the Mac Business Unit (aka MacBU’s) answer to the Office division’s Ribbon, which garnered Microsoft the ”Most Innovative Product of 2007” award from PC World. According to Ars Technica’s Charles Jade, the Elements Gallery “...expand[s] when selected, temporarily devouring screen space and giving access to options like templates...”
Jade also commented on another Word feature, the Publishing Layout View, which they claimed that “Unlike Notebook View from Office 2004, PLV actually seems useful. It makes desktop publishing at least as easy as Pages, which sets the bar pretty low, but still.”
For Excel, the headlining new feature is Ledger Sheets. “Ledger Sheets enable anyone to use Excel to handle common financial management tasks,” Microsoft explained in a press release announcing the new version of Office:Mac, “Home and small-business users can balance checkbooks, track accounts or manage investment portfolios more easily than ever.”
PowerPoint is receiving Office Art 2, a feature carried over from Office 2007, with added…
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Xtreme Nterviews at Macworld, part 1
One of the greatest things about visiting Macworld Expo is meeting the people behind all the toys and software we use on a daily basis, and there’s no better way to determine what goes on in their heads than to conduct an interview. We were originally planning to conduct a roundtable discussion with several people, but we got several nays and no yays to that, so we went back to a normal interview format. Except these aren’t normal interviews—they’re Xtreme Nterviews, completely unscripted and ad libbed as we go. This makes it both more challenging and more fun, as it keeps you slightly on your toes to come up with another great question and keep the interview going. And as you’ll see, I think we did a great job at that.
Disco burns a hole in your pocket
I ran into Austin Sarner, the young man behind the notorious applications AppZapper and Disco, not to mention My Dream App and MacHeist (but more about those later), at his small, but still very much existent booth. I thought it would be good to get an opinion from the “other side,” and see what he thinks of all the hubbub his applications…
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Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Copyright Infringement
Yesterday, Cisco Systems, Inc. filed a law suit against Apple Inc. for copyright infringement over the “Apple iPhone”. Cisco has owned the trademark to the name since they acquired the company Infogear, who had obtained the rights to the name on March 20, 1996. Mark Chandler the vice president of cisco said:
Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco’s iPhone name.
He also stated:
There is no doubt that Apple’s new phone is very exciting, but they should not be using our trademark without our permission.
Cisco is said to be seeking injunctive relief to prevent Apple from copying their trademark. Cisco’s official press release can be found here.
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The Macworld Experience
I’m currently sitting at an iMac owned by Microsoft, as part of their blogger lounge, in the South Hall of Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. As many of you have not had the chance to attend I wanted to share a bit about the experience.
As you walk into the center, you are immediately greeted with crowds of people waiting in line and vying to enter. If you already have your badge, because you received it in the mail (as I did), it’s easy to simply go down the escalator and onto the show floor. Through the double doors, the walls of Moscone open up and you are greeted by endless rows of booths. Countless people wander the floor looking at new toys and listening to exhibitors give their shpiel on their product.
The center of the South Hall, where the majority of the exhibit hall is located, is Apple’s “booth.” Being the star of the show, Apple has more floorspace than anyone else; a giant soundstage (this year, two stages, one solely for the iPhone) is surrounded by nice, clean rows of various apple toys and software demonstrations. Happy Apple employees dressed in black T-shirts…
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