michaeladebose

Having a presence and having a strategy are two different things. IT has a way of going about things and Apple's entire ethos is the complete opposite of what IT departments want from a "provider/partner". Apple does not communicate at all. You need look no further than what Apple did with FinalCut recently and how much that caught content production off guard who have (1) A substantial infrastructure based on Apple products (2) Typically like to see their current investment is compatible with future investment and/or want a whole lot of notice when this isn't going to be the case (3) Like some indication on future platform changes and direction so as to better plan future roll outs and expenditures. Everything about the introduction of the latest FinalCut product was an affront to probably every expectation an IT department would have for a technology provider. Moreover IT departments are there to control the infrastructure and Apple has not been too good with ceding control to anybody. Years ago I really wanted to see Apple storm the corporate world. Their products are substantially easier to support and their XServe and server licensing were much easier to manage. Unfortunately I dont' think XServe was ever much more than a hobby. Besides Apple's move into education, IT and A/V production tend to look like their dedication to such great products as HyperCard, Quicktime X, and Keynote: excellent products with a lot of promise that became utterly ignored with really great communities surrounding them that were left holding the bag. No IT department wants that kind of life. In the end I don't fault Apple. Clearly they are an excellent consumer facing company. From an IT perspective I'm not terribly happy with people running their own kit on the corporate network because we all know how secure most users keep their technology and their home networks are right. Exactly.

Exciting. I really wonder what this might look like. I can see colleges having issues with this, however it should be a given that the close you get to a remote physical with a doctor, the closer we  are to an entirely online university.

RE: @slashgear I'm sure that's good news to somebody but I'd much rather read that iTunes is making it easier to buy … http://t.co/U4qCS5YB

RE: @dcrothers Some of the best footage I've seen of animal and insect flight. Thanks for that. It's good to know Lon… http://t.co/7ef2Rv8B

I'm sure that's good news to somebody but I'd much rather read that iTunes is making it easier to buy international titles. It makes a little sense that signed (non-independent) artist might be regionally locked in one iTunes store or another, but there's a lot of great music out there around the world inaccessible anywhere but in its originating region. Sad.

Some of the best footage I've seen of animal and insect flight. Thanks for that. It's good to know Longhorn Beetles don't actually get drunk, because that clip would get my vote for the "Don't drink and fly!" psa for the insect kingdom.

Redundancy over performance good focus. Conceptually its almost like we're discussing fractals. Cool. I never would h… http://t.co/wmwfxzza

RE: @dcrothers Those are some pretty aggressive specs. Nvidia has been ratcheting up the heat in this space and if th… http://t.co/SMa2ia2r

RE: They really are competing in the tablet market and you really are starting to get some quality screen resolutions… http://t.co/Fa1TZfYa

Redundancy over performance good focus. Conceptually its almost like we're discussing fractals. Cool. I never would have guessed Google might be building their own switches and routers. This world is funny. In so many ways cloud & warehouse computing really are VAX for the masses and now even though custom computing solutions are passe, who'd use a "commodity" networking solution, like who does that right? Seriously though, databases and their data have been put through the ringer of re-imagining but maybe its the packet's turn. IPv6 is about address space mostly, but maybe Google's custom network solution is either about Cisco, Juniper or Aruba just being good enough, or maybe we're doing so much with the data that wasn't planned for that eventually we will need to do to networks what we've done to the database and computer.

Those are some pretty aggressive specs. Nvidia has been ratcheting up the heat in this space and if the performance really is about where the specs imply, I want one.

They really are competing in the tablet market and you really are starting to get some quality screen resolutions and technology. Let's be honest, consumers have been sold much more computer than they've actually needed for a long time because desktops were really all we had. No one really has consumer use models fully worked out anywhere but in tablet maybe..(7" vs. 10") vs. wifi vs. telco, but the market is in agreement that the "starter"/base acquisition is tablet so that's where they're going all out. Once they have a better idea what the other mobile companion might look like, ultra vs. full laptop, then they may start really paying better attention to the specs. The other reason they like the spec race on these "disposables" because churn is much higher.

I agree that artist drive the Apple cart, but make no mistake Apple's engineers do a bang up job consistently beating… http://t.co/O351F9kt

I agree that artist drive the Apple cart, but make no mistake Apple's engineers do a bang up job consistently beating higher speccd phones through great coding.  There will always be a place for great engineers. This focus in design is more a result of the lack of it in a Windows world for a decade that's all. I like great design and I pray that user experience will always be a priority, but I know that in the end it will come down to capable engineers to make it happen. Besides that's why Woz is a part of the Apple story, it should be quite clear to you that in the end Steve always needed someone to get his vision into the silicon. Dreaming alone doesn't make that happen.

The design's look matches the stated intent of its creators. There should be no doubt of that. Could it remind others… http://t.co/4A2YfQ55

The design's look matches the stated intent of its creators. There should be no doubt of that. Could it remind others of other things? Without a doubt. It reminds me of something you might see in an old Mario Bros. game, but that's what I see and I don't think the MB game franchise owners need retain their lawyers for what I'm reminded of when I see this building. It's a nice design. Where's Yoshi?!

I am in the States. A friend and I are starting an organization around very similar imperatives. We've been meeting a year and have been blessed to meet many from the Continent with similar desires. Although it's stated here that many in the Diaspora are different, which I agree to some extent but we must be mindful that during slavery, the genes of any single family could be and often were sent indiscriminately to any slaving destination on the globe. A brother in Brazil, a cousin in Kentucky, a Mother in the West Indies; this was the nature of slavery. Throw in Vera Cruz or Venezuela and although it seems more complicated, the fact is that our lots are very similar wherever we reside. Firmly I know that for us to truly embrace each other earnestly, we must sincerely embrace the face, the skin and the sheer capability that welcomes us longingly in our mirrors, that dutifully reflect the likeness of the One, True and Living, God, in the shade of the very soil from which we were made. This is our distinction and our inheritance. Embrace these Truths and the responsibilities that come with them and the rest that is already ours, will be acknowledged as ours.

The sad self-obsession surrounding NASA's Kepler-22b discovery http://t.co/sr3A0bB9 via @CNET

Just when  you thought CISC might have won after all. ARM vs. MIPS, its the 90s all over again. MIPS performance envelope should be similar to ARM: low power and negligible heat. Battery life is important and MIPS may be decent in this respect. nVidia and others are starting to push ARM performance, so hopefully MIPS has an answer that gets ARM's attention. Ideally a performance war should drive prices down in the consumer space maybe even more than Amazon.

4 a warm moment and some understanding of "it all" check this out. Oh and Matt, thanks. I http://t.co/dFyPIXHH