I ordered a MacBook Air site unseen. That's a first for me.
As I write this I'm about to go workout and it dawns on me that I'm on my 3rd generation of Apple IPod. I started with the original, switched to a bigger version (to back up all my pics and show off my kids to my friends) and then for the holidays, got myself and wife an ITouch.
Goodbye Ipod. With the new $20 dollar software that I downloaded yesterday, my ITouch gives me music, pictures and now email, calendar and a very cool basic GPS system that leverages the WiFi available. Touchtyping is still impossible for me on it, so it wont ever replace my phone for texting or primary mobile email, but its definitely encroaching on its territory. Solve the keyboard problem for fat fingered typists and I might even buy an IPhone.
I like the ITouch enough that I just sent an email to the Mavs IT head to see how we fans with ITouchs (and Wifi devices like Nokia among others) could leverage WiFi in the American Airlines Center before , during and after Mavs games, HDNet Fights and other events...
After many PC years, I've crossed over. Me the fanboy.
I can't believe I'm becoming an Apple Fanboy
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(Page 2)22. For consumer devices like music players and phones..maybe. But when it comes to getting work done on laptops? You will be back Mark.
The loss of productivity and absence of some key applications will drive you crazy. Brad Feld tried to move to Mac. Couldn't do it...hard as he tried. Lots of VCs have tried it only to come back to the Windows PC.
BTW, have you reconsidered running for president? The current candidates are lame. You could do much better.
Don Dodge
23. Hey Mark-
I'm surprised the MacBook Air appeals to you. I think last week's MacWorld set the company back several steps, and that laptop, although may be *cool* is a waste of research and development on their part. As much as an Apple fan I am (I own the iPhone, 5G iPod, new iMac, PPC Powerbook), I think they are starting to falter as a company. They are spending too much time worrying about movie rentals rather than fixing and updating the core products they have in the market already.
I think you would like a MacBook or MacBook Pro much better than the Air quite honestly.
Posted at 10:46PM on Jan 22nd 2008 by Mark Goodchild
24. Apple is really good at industrial design and promotion. And they actually innovate, which is more than can be said about 99% of their industrial peers.
Is every new product a smash hit? No. Do you pay a premium for Apple products? Yes. But all in all, I've been a happy Mac user since my first computer in 1992, I think is was. Not sure how many Apple products I've had over the years, but I've been consistently happy and occasionally ecstatic.
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Posted at 11:43PM on Jan 22nd 2008 by lizc0n
27. AAPL is down $18 in afterhours trading on Mark's announcement. But seriously, could you imagine if Mark had posted this about an HP lapper with Vista installed? Would anyone think he wasn't being paid? That's the difference -- and has long been the difference -- with Apple products. So long as I have been using them (since 1979), they have elicited some love from users that competing products don't. Style and simplicity count.
Posted at 1:33AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by Brad Hutchings
29. Apple city....
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Posted at 4:33AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by sergica
30. I like my Ipod a bit but hate the way it's all scratched up with very little abuse. My wife's Ipod nano crashes regularly, though she likes it because it's pink. The Iphone is not for me though. No real keys and a crappy little camera. I'll stick to my Nokia N95 thanks.
31. Mark, I ordered it sight unseen, too. But it's not my first time doing so with an Apple product. I doubt you'll be disappointed -- but if you are, I don't mind you discarding it at my address. (P.S. The movie theater in Mt. Lebanon is my favorite one hands down)
Posted at 7:19AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by Whitney Hess
32. Can someone get Mark to look at this link.
http://www.apple.com/webapps/sports/ilakers.html
I've been an iPhone user for a couple of months now. This Laker web app is really cool. We should have one for the Mavs available for the iPhone.
Posted at 7:22AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by James Baker
33. Mark,
You mentioned opportunities to leverage wifi during mavs games and other events. Didn't Purdue University do something like that a while back for their football games? Where They would allow people to have real-time stats updated to their personal devices during the game. Basically ensuring that people don't miss the details of the game they get at home while also enjoying the live environment?
Posted at 7:41AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by John Chapman
34. Mark, consider this your Apple Fanboy initiation.
First, you explain you bought something called an ITouch. What you must be referring to is the iPod touch. Therefore, you didn't say goodbye to the Ipod (actually its iPod, Steve's picky like that). So, with this initial first mistake your going to need to hand over the MacBook Air until you get your Apple tattoo :)
Posted at 8:26AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by Scott Cropper
36. Shiny new toys are always fun ^_~. But seriously, the more I hear about Apple the more I want to check it out for myself.
Posted at 8:55AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by Rebeccalee Coventry
37. Apple products can be a very expensive "habit". Apple definitely has an eye for what makes a product sexy.
Posted at 9:07AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by Search Engine Optimization - Terry Reeves
38. like others, I like the idea of wifi usage on mobile browsers during the games. "who was that guy?", "where did so and so go to college?", "What country is that guy from?" etc all questions that you ask your self during a game but forget about when you get home.
Also, you could do in game contests with mobile web or sms submissions, iphones as prizes, to let users know that they can access the web and interact with the game before, after and during the game.
Cool stuff!
39. I wish you were my boss
Posted at 10:10AM on Jan 23rd 2008 by Sam
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