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Scripting News Annex 
Posted by PXLated on January 9, 2007 at 6:02 am
A couple of minor things…
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“Enter Microsoft, with its partner IBM”
Uhhh…at the time wasn’t it the other way around 😉
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“IE…it was faster, prettier, just nicer in every way.”
And it was bundled on every machine. Can you say monopoly.
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But, I get your drift and agree.
Posted by Bill Koss on January 9, 2007 at 7:16 am
Spot on about Microsoft. Cisco will only start to decline when they stop seducing too.
Posted by Hieronymous Coward on January 9, 2007 at 7:36 am
This is what 80%+ market share does to you. They’ve basically stopped wowing the user and figured they can make more money cutting deals with OEMs (note Home Server is an OEM-only product).
And they still wonder why Apple/Google gets so much more positive coverage than they do.
Posted by Dork McDork on January 9, 2007 at 8:57 am
Thanks a lot! Now I’m sure to receive Las Vegas Airport spam! 🙂
But Re. iTunes libraries — the shared libraries you see do mean that their owners have iTunes running. You should be able to play their files, too. I wonder if the wireless is being filtered some way that doesn’t give iTunes sharing its full functionality.
Posted by Dork McDork on January 9, 2007 at 8:58 am
Oh. I see that the iTunes error message confirms my suggestion. (The screen shot link was missing at the time I posted my comment.)
Posted by Michael on January 9, 2007 at 9:09 am
Re: the shared music thing,
That’s bonjour music sharing. it lets you listen to the music of other people on your internal network. It’s only when iTunes is open, and works with windows versions too.
Posted by Paul Andrews on January 9, 2007 at 10:58 am
Dave, why are you wasting your time in Vegas when you could be in SF vetting Macworld for us? Hard to tell from demos but they’re dancing in the streets, check out Engadget’s blog-by-blog account. It’d be great to have someone with your wireless home chops giving us real-world perspective instead of just cheerleading, although it looks like Jobs really nailed it this time. If Apple delivers on the demos of Apple TV and the iPhone, I’m there. Been waiting a looonnnnggg time for someone to crack the usability nut on smart phones and Internet TV…
Posted by Chris Janton on January 9, 2007 at 12:20 pm
WRT iTunes Sharing – you can share (on your local network using Bonjour/ZeroConf)
iTunes tunes
iPhoto photos
NetNewsWire subscriptions (if I recall correctly)
soon AddressBook data
etc.
Kind of nice when you have a Big Honker for services and storage. You can use your stuff on portable devices remarkably easily.
8)
Posted by John on January 9, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Re. the Ramen noodles — effortless, sure. Purity? Not with all that MSG in them. That’s what ruins them for me.
Posted by Mitchel Tyrell on January 9, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Its fairly obvious now that you are happy with you Mac, but this line:
“because they left their users to fend for themselves against all kinds of malware”
Why is it that Microsoft doesn’t get any credit for purchancing, developing, and destributing Windows Defender for free as well as there other security efforts. This notion that Microsoft has turned a blind eye to their users is a bit native.
Posted by Anton2000 on January 9, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Hello dave, Push-up bra not included 🙂
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/macworld2007/apples-new-airport-extreme-no-longer-shaped-like-a-boob-227478.php
Posted by Donald on January 9, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Wrong place at the wrong time. Poor Dave. 🙂
Posted by Ryan on January 9, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Thanks for the “closed box” iPhone discussion. That’s my number one question. Bottom line, if it’s an open box, I’ll most likely buy one, if it’s not, I most likely won’t. Why would they tout it as an OSX machine if it can only run Apple stuff? Maybe because their marketing is in overdrive, which I could believe, but I am hoping that’s not the case.
(The number one reason I care, btw, is because I want to run an outliner on the macPhone, specifically OmniOutliner. Right now I run an outliner called ShadowPlan on my Palm device, which only opens on the Mac in OmniOutliner via a translation AppleScript I have to run twice each day minimum. If I could run OmniOutliner — a truly nice outliner — on the iPhone, I would be thrilled.)
Posted by Larry Bouchie on January 9, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Hey Dave, you read my mind. No one else seems to have picked up on the Beatles use. I also noticed a photo of the Sgt. Pepper album cover on an iPhone screen. Might this mean Beatles tunes will be available on iTunes?
Posted by Walt Ritscher on January 9, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Tom Evslin say that the same old telecom lockin, just with a prettier Apple face
http://blog.tomevslin.com/2007/01/apple_fails_to_.html
“According to the AP Story carried in the NY Times Online, Steve Jobs claims that iPhone will “reinvent” the telecommunications sector. Wish it were so but it ain’t!
The design of the phone – no hard buttons, all touch on screen, sounds like everything we expect from Steve and from Apple: it’s all about the GUI and that part’ll be fun. But the business relationship is as old school as it can get: exclusive US distributorship through Cingular (which will soon be exclusively owned by at&t).
Come to think of it, iPod and iTunes aren’t very open models either.
The telecommunications sector (or at least the mobile part of it) WOULD have been reinvented if Apple said that the WiFi connection on the phone could be used to make voice calls without going through the Cingular network. But they didn’t.
The telecommunications sector (or at least the mobile part of it) WOULD have been reinvented if Apple had announced a phone which is network agnostic and let the carriers rush to announce their support for it. But they didn’t.”
Posted by eas on January 9, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Hey, what was that about the iPhone being a closed box?
Posted by david king on January 9, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Gartenberg isn’t quite right when he said the iPhone won’t have rss capabilities – ever heard of bloglines or google reader? If it has wifi, then it has rss.
Posted by Rahul Dave on January 9, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Seems they left out USB. How will I sync my camera to this? Oh yes, drag my powerbook along too. Useless.
Posted by Eric Kidd on January 10, 2007 at 2:12 am
The fact that the iPhone is closed platform is almost enough to make me cry. The things I could do with this platform, the applications I could write…
It’s as if Apple released the original Macintosh, in 1984, but they limited it to a half-dozen applications. There never would have been a PageMaker. How much other beautiful software would have been stillborn?
The iPhone does, however, appear to run Dashboard widgets. These are actually just HTML and Javascript, but with better graphics APIs. (You could write an outliner or an RSS reader, with a bit of work.) Surely Steve Jobs isn’t so controlling as to lock down that layer, too? Has he just given up on all us noisy developers?
At this rate, we’ll probably have to buy our ringtones from the iTunes music store.
Posted by Bob Stepno on January 10, 2007 at 6:51 am
Hey Dave… I think there’s a fortune to be made on bumperstickers with your closing line: “Get in bed with the guy whose lunch you want to eat.” And maybe a follow-up market for stickers with extended mixed metaphors about watching out for crumbs… and bedbugs.
Posted by Jim Armstrong on January 10, 2007 at 6:56 am
Dave,
As I see it, you need to work closely with Apple, Inc., Google, and Yahoo to make sure OPML and RSS work easily with the iPhone, because this thing really is an outliner platform. That way you will get one of the first available units.
I don’t think a lot of people really grasp the significance of this new platform. It is like a Newton for half the price and 10 times the features. It is a Mac Mini with a screen, that will fit in your pocket. It is a WiFi iPod that really works. It is a podcasters dream machine with a Bluetooth microphone,camera, and the internet built in.
And yes, USB is available through the dock. That is how it connects to your computer.
When you take Moore’s law into affect, the price will drop at $100 per year, while the power and capacity will increase every year.
The mind boggles at the though of it.
Posted by d.w. on January 10, 2007 at 11:15 am
Rahul Dave — it’s got the usual 30-pin iPod docking connector, so I imagine you just need the iPod camera connector.
Posted by James Plamondon on January 11, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Dave,
I appreciate your referring to me as “one of the good guys” at Microsoft, back in the 1990’s — although I must say that all of us in Microsoft’s Developer Relations Group (DRG) thought of ourselves that way. It was a great team.
You can find my response to ComputerWorld’s article here (towards the bottom):
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=271057
I refer to this version of my response, rather than the one on ComputerWorld’s SharkBait, because this version contains URLs to relevant definitions and other resources.
Inevitably, Microsoft’s PR people are distancing Microsoft from my 1996 presentation, saying that the approach to evangelism that it describes was not then, and is not now, Microsoft’s policy. This overlooks the fact that my presentation was such a hit with DRG’s management that I gave it in three subsequent internal training sessions at (roughly) six-month intervals. DRG’s management REQUIRED the attendance of all newly-hired evangelists at these presentations, and the attendance & participation of all other evangelists was recommended. The pace of hiring new evangelists then slowed, so it was not necessary to give such internal training sessions thereafter. Microsoft had not previously had any formal training seminars for newly-hired evangelists, so far as I know (between 1992 and 1996). If you read the transcript of the “offending” presentation, you’ll see that Marshall Goldberg — a senior evangelist who had frequent meetings with Microsoft’s senior executives, including Bill Gates — refers to me as being Microsoft’s “evangelism theoretician.”
The point being that Microsoft recognized that my presentations on evangelism theory, strategy, and tactics — of which only one has been entered into the public record, the others still being massively confidential — were, in fact, the best embodiment of Microsoft’s evangelism “policy” that existed at the time. Else, they would have used some other materials and presenter for new-evangelist training, would they not?
Another portion of the old “pawns” methaphor said “We can only win the allegiance of the pawns by understanding what they need, and supplying it; what they fear, and alleviating it; what they believe, and reinforcing it; where they want to go tomorrow, and taking them there. Set things up so that they get what they want by helping you get what you want – then just get out of their way.”
Hardly a prescription for abuse, is it?
That said, the “pawns” metaphor was stretched well beyond the breaking point, and should not have been used.
The “first-date” analogy was puerile, stupid, and wrong. In one of the other training presentations, I emphasize that the first rule of evangelism is, simply, “Never lie; always tell the truth” — a point contradicted by my stupid “first-date” ramblings. I was usually slated as the “after lunch” speaker because I was recognized for my ability to wake up a sleepy audience — and in my search for spicy, vivid, exciting analogies, I went too far, for which I am truly sorry.
Fair enough?
Thanks! 🙂
James Plamondon
CEO, Thumtronics
The New Shape of Music(tm)
http://www.thummer.com
P.S.: Once I’m done revolutionizing the music-technology world, I really should finish my book on the theory and practice of technology evangelism.
Posted by Joel on January 12, 2007 at 3:46 pm
It’s great to hear from James, albeit under these circumstances. However James was always at his best when rising to a challenge. I do hope it wasn’t his move to Australia which caused that old lecture to boomerang!
(I guess you had to be there or be an equilateral orthogonal quadralateral.)
Joel
Posted by Frank on February 16, 2007 at 8:49 am
“Get in bed with the guy whose lunch you want to eat. ” That’s one of the most beautiful mixed metaphors I’ve read all week!