Comments on: MacCast 2006.12.06

By: TonyG

TonyG — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:42:15 +0000

Adam,
Longtime listener – first time poster – I’ve been wanting to get in touch with you for the longest to say thanks. Your newest show sounded great – The show itself seen an immense improvement from the early, early days. Thanks for the tidbits, the rumors, the helpful hints, and the Mac Excitement you offer in each broadcast. I’ve learned a lot of neat tips, solved a few problems, and really just have enjoyed your enthusiasm for all things Mac.
Best wishes for another great year.
Tony G.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 19:52:41 +0000

I do hope that the rumor of a 12″ MacBook Pro, or similar product is true. I haven’t done any market research, but there has got to be a significant percentage of laptop users who would prefer a laptop or second laptop for more convenient traveling (lighter, smaller). The nature of a laptop is mobile computing, and not all roadies need computing power, graphics, etc., just enough to do presentations, web, email, word processing… I think the form factor is a greater selling point.

By: Amit

Amit — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:23:43 +0000

Ref to KC mail point 1,
Just for the info.
There exist such phones.
When we go from Japan to other GSM countries, we do not need to change our handset, we just get the sim card and use it there.
Offcourse those card we have to get it here and its locked to carrier.
Also i had seen in India, a Nokia model, it came with CDMA provider and we used the local GSM sim card too.

Point is, its not unusual. it do exist, just not see light as those big companies don’t want to give freedom to users.

By: KC

KC — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 22:20:31 +0000

The guy revealing ‘details’ about the iPhone said two things that are incredible to me:

1) A phone that runs on all carriers.

Even stating two versions of the phone (CDMA, GSM) would be unusual — you almost never see a feature phone like this come out on both technologies at once.

2) Price.

Um, $249 for a phone, unlocked to a specific carrier? VERY unusual pricing for not being tied to a plan. Very unusual for adding a phone, in effect, to a nano. Now add the keyboard?

I could see Steve wanting to overcome the carrier-type barrier to an iPhone, but it doesn’t seem feasible at this price.

By: Marc Edwards

Marc Edwards — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 02:12:50 +0000

Thanks for the mention.

I intend to do a follow up article once we’re finished on the resolution independent app we’re working on. It’s a pretty complex subject. There’s been some great comments from both camps (pro-vector and pro-bitmap). I don’t think we’ve heard the end of this! It’ll become more of an issue as time goes on and we try to view web pages and applications on more varied devices.

Anyway… :)

Here’s a link to the new (and revised) Australian laws.

http://www.ag.gov.au/agd/WWW/MinisterRuddockHome.nsf/Page/RWPC7B0742318EF6A58CA25723B008145FC

Cheers,
Marc.

By: Frank Burcaw

Frank Burcaw — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:13:54 +0000

Adam,

I think you are right about the new patent Apple acquired. the first thing I thought of was Apple using as leverage to keep the record labels and movie producers in check. Either accept fair play as it is or go back to selling CD’s and DVD’s at the mall. And you can forget about receiving any royalties from hardware sales.

Great show Adam!

By: Dave Gray

Dave Gray — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:09:01 +0000

Just a correction to the above comment. The legality of putting music on a portable media device from a CD that you have purchased is based upon the law in the country in which you live.

Here in Australia it is actually LEGAL to buy a CD rip it to .mp3 or whatever and transfer it to a device. It is a specific number of times but I can’t remember what the number is.

By: Rozza

Rozza — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:34:08 +0000

Australian iPods? legal?
Im lead to believe that ipods them selves are not illegal, but what you use them for IS illagal. If you put Cds on your iPod, Ilegal. Buy it off itunes, legal, make your own music and put it on your ipod, legal.