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6 dec. 2006

@apple@

The wiimote is coming to OS X [via] (there were already similar news for Windows, but I’m obviously less interested). Now that promises to be much, much more interesting than all the MacBook motion sensor crap there’s been before.

Wiimote support absolutely needs to be one of Leopard’s top secret features.

 

@apple@

It’s Apple rumor week it seems (just as every other week). An ultrathin laptop, smaller than, and twice as expensive as the MacBook? Whatever — I hear there’s some kind of market for that. A tablet? That’s original. A gaming console and/or Mac games on the iTunes Store? Possibly, but at odds with Apple’s choice of a graphics chipset for the one Mac that’s most likely to be connected to an HDTV. The iPhone formally announced by Kevin Rose for the next MacWorld? Okay, on this one there’s something that puzzles me: two batteries. Ooh, genius, you can empty the MP3 player’s battery all you want, you’ll never be left stranded without phone capability! Yay!

What?

The cheapest, most efficient, most reliable way to be sure that your phone will always have power is to multiply by two the cost, space and risk of failure of batteries? Rather than, I don’t know, having a software setting to shut down the iPod part when the battery status reaches a certain level?

Two fricking separate batteries in a nano-sized phone, and everyone thinks it’s so cool it’s got to be real? Geez, are you that desperate?

 

@misc@

Ironically, the next Motorola ROKR has a stylus and no iTunes.

 

@misc@

I think Art. Lebedev might have confirmed that the $1,200 price point for Optimus-103 was a joke. Or not.

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