NeXT Computers

[da9000]

As for the comments about the insatiable disposable material world we live in, I fully agree with what you guys are saying. And one thing to consider is that as things tend to be disposed, the speed of "upgrading" increases, and surely that's more money for the big companies out there, but I think what's worse is that the pace of life is sped up, and it's gotten to the point that you blink your eyes and what you new as true around you, isn't the same when they open again. I mean technology wise (ex: Sun is introducing 16-core CPUs now!), but also social-wise (ex: iPod video is the "in thing", so you've gotta toss that 40GB "normal iPod", coz it's not sexy any more). And this has huge ramifications into our interpersonal lives and relationships. I don't think most people enjoy their mates or loved ones enough. They either swap too often or are spending too much time upgrading iPods (or NeXT boxes??? )

In the end, I really don't know if we enjoy the "phyiscal materials" we come in contact with. Like you guys mentioned, most people use their iPod until the next one comes out. Surely they don't have a chance to discover all there is to it. To tweak the hell out of it. To push it to its utmost limits! Perhaps they get satisfaction out of this flux. But I highly doubt it. Sure, during the moment when they get the new one, they get satisfaction. But I feel in my gut that they have moments of emptyness, many more than those of joy. I bet that when they see one of us "dorks" caring about these old black boxes and getting so much satisfaction out of messing around, and modding and fixing and cleaning our cubes and slabs, they must feel a great void inside them. Then again I might be delusional or a bit too biased But then again again, they might realize we're also materialists, unfortunately, and laugh at us, but I highly doubt that too, since they're pioneering materialism with their trendy shopping addictions.

Blah. Rant over. Still, I'm very happy only 50,000 or so black hardware made it out of Fremont

[Nightengale]

Well said, spooky too
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[RacerX]

[helf]

20 minutes?! I hope thats not right. thats just SAD if it is.

My treo600 with its bad battery gets about 2 hours of talk. when the battery was good it got a bit over 3. And I plan on buying a high capacity one for it in a few weeks. that should be good for about 5 hours :D

*hugs his treo*

best. phone. ever.
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[nextchef]

[da9000]

Yeah, I can definitely see Jobs recalling the unit due to aesthetic reasons But I believe it'll be for the better. I trust his judgement when it comes to this stuff.

Somewhere I read that 50 of their top engineers are over in Taipei dealing with some last minute problems that have crept up. My guess is that it's the manufacturing/hardware that's over there. There's not reason they would need to go there to fix software, not unless it's the low-level stuff which is intimately tied to the hardware. But like nextchef says: all speculation

[nextchef]

[da9000]

I think I agree with most of the comments about how you'd probably ship the phone to Apple, not Apple to Taipei :)

But it's probably software problems, coz I just recalled that I was contacted for a position on the iPhone team last week or so.

[nextchef]

Looks like its allmost time for the iPhone, and macrumors has what they say are the specs.

http://www.macrumors.com/2007/06/08/apples-iphone-specs-and-requirements/

Battery information is as follows:
- Lithium
- Up to 5 hours - Talk / Video / Browsing
- Up to 16 hours - Audio playback
(Battery life varies by use)

The talk time is on par with what my 8700c gets, which is good. I do not have an ipod, so I do not know how the video/audio playing time compares.

Chef