Apple has a PR nightmare brewing…

September 27, 2007 By

Tons of people on Twitter are reporting problems with their iPhones. Including my son. Including Jeff Clavier. Anyone else having this problem? These are people who have not unlocked their iPhones. I’m about to update mine and will report what happens. A bunch more reports are over on TechMeme and Dave Winer is tracking them too.

How about you? How did your update of your iPhone go?

Oh, and Patrick’s iPhone lost all of its data. Made worse because his Mac had a bunch more problems (this is the second time it’s been in the shop) and so he’s praying now that Apple didn’t delete everything off of his hard drive.

UPDATE: My iPhone update seems to have gone well. New icon on home screen says “iTunes.” Meanwhile the Twitters from people with updates that didn’t go well continue to come in. Here’s another one.

Filed Under: April Fools, Irish

PBS, what kind of Mac you running?

March 2, 2006 By

Hey, PBS’s Mark Glaser says that he can’t watch WMV files. What kind of Mac are you running Mark? Also, WMV files have NOTHING to do with the kind of browser you have. It has to do with the media player you have.

By the way, my son is a Mac user. Maybe NPR should hire him. He knows how to play WMV files on his Mac. I’ll have him try to play these and get back to us. Are these files DRM’d?

I just got an email from a reader that said these files work just fine on his Mac.

Another guy just reported that he can’t view the AP Web page from his Mac and that the Web page itself (not the video formats) can’t be opened. Oh, that’s not nice!

Filed Under: April Fools, Blog Tips, Microsoft Office, Video

Oh, Hugh…

February 18, 2006 By

I’ve been blogging for more than five years now and the “blogging is a fad” meme is one that consistently is reborn every five months. What I find interesting is why we so consistently link and talk about every “blogging is a fad” article that comes along. Yeah, Hugh, I’m talking about you.

Of course, there’s another meme that is just as consistent in terms of getting links: saying something outrageous about Apple. Just watch the links come in. Here, I won’t even link to it and I bet someone posts in my comments precisely who I’m thinking of. :-)

Filed Under: April Fools, blog differentiation, Blog Tips

Dual booting Windows on new Macs…

January 30, 2006 By

I got VERY close to plunking down $2,000 for one of those new MacBooks that Apple came out with. Why? Cause it is able to dual boot both Windows and Mac OSX and I wanted to have a machine that could have run both. An article showing how to do this is on Memeorandum right now.

But Steve Jobs pulled one of his favorite tricks. He removed a popular IO system and put in a new slot that no one uses yet. It’s called an ExpressCard. I’m sure it’ll be very cool soon, but today there’s no peripherals that use this.

Why does this matter? Well, go down to Sprint and ask for an EVDO card. Or Verizon. Or Cingular. They all have them. I would say these are all now NECESSARY for a traveling businessperson. I just got one yesterday and I’ve said goodbye to Wifi forever. My friends are all buying them (Phillip Torrone showed me his running on his 17-inch Apple Powerbook at Macworld expo).

Now that I have this capability I’ll never buy a machine that isn’t compatible. Torrone told me that’s why he’s not buying one of the new Macs either.

How about you?

By the way, I say this is a Steve Jobs trick because he famously pulled a floppy drive out of his NeXT computer which made it very futuristic (very few computers today have floppy drives, just 17 years later) but also made it hard to use at the time.

Filed Under: April Fools, Blog Tips

Off to Macworld we go…

January 13, 2006 By

Off to Macworld we go. Watch the Flickr feed for fun photos (no, not now, later!). Oh, there’s my new Lenovo Tablet PC.

Filed Under: April Fools, Blog Tips

Microsoft to abandon Mac player?

January 12, 2006 By

Anona just brought this to my attention over on CNET: Microsoft to stop developing Macintosh version of its Media Player. I wanna learn more about this before I go off on my blog but I am not happy about this decision (if it is as presented — often I learn that the entire story isn’t quite what it seems, so I’m going on a fact-finding mission). Can the people who are on this team please contact me? Thanks!

Filed Under: April Fools, Medical, Microsoft Office
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