Cumulus

Quotes…


Edison "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
Thomas A. Edison

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
Thomas Jefferson

Pascal "Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662)

'An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.'
Repoman

Sobchak “You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in ‘Nam’ of course.”
Walter Sobchak

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Berenson "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
Bernard Berenson

"The best is the enemy of the good."
Voltaire

King "The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
Stephen King

Bacon "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
Sir Francis Bacon

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby

Army "You will not rise to the occasion, you will sink to the level of your training."
US Army

"I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there."
Fred Allen

'Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.'
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

'I am a Doctor, not a Bricklayer'
Doctor McCoy

'A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.'
Segal's Law

Army 'In command and out of control.'
US Army

'It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.'
Abraham Lincoln

2010 Apple Predictions

1. iSlate comes out and you can’t afford to buy it. Runs iPhone apps in dozens of floating windows, read newspapers, i.e. http://www.nytimes.com/timesskimmer/ , magazines, books and allows you to buy more stuff.

2. iWork goes to the cloud, and starts to suck as much as mobile me does. The real news, it will be advertising supported. What will you do with the $99 you save? See number 4.

3. iPhone gets and incredible, amazing upgrade. 3Gz! AT&T upgrades nothing, but creates tiered data pricing. Bing is the default search engine.

4. iPod Mini gets a camera, you buy one because they lower the price to $99. The Nano is finally is discontinued.

5. Apple TV gets the once over and allows you to subscribe to ‘Cable’ channels, for no other reason then Steve lives to negotiate big deals like that.

6. Apple releases an actual TV that runs ‘apps’. Oh yah, you can buy stuff on it. Easily. iPhone works as a remote, crowd goes crazy.

7. Apple’s new version of Aperture is released, and it is a coupon for Adobe’s Lightroom 3. Steve reminds ‘the staff’ that the software thing was designed to sell computers. Reminds them Computer is not in the corporate name anymore.

8. The MacPro is quietly ‘upgraded’, but looks the same as it did 5 years ago. The iMac gets faster and better. Steve loves all in one computers, hates pieces, think Mac Classic. Looking for an affordable non all in one? Store staff trained to look at you in a new condescending gaze.

9. iTunes gets a complete makeover. New Moody Genius feature, and a way to actually organize and find your music, movies, app, etc. Phil introduces this, after Steve introduces the iSlate.

10. Desktop, iSlate and iPhone apps will be available via the iTunes store. Marketed as a way to always be up to date, and find new stuff to buy. Follow the money.


New Apple Store

Apple has opened a new Store on67th Street and Broadway. Not a stellar piece of design for sure. No Public or Handicapped Elevator on the sales floor. I assume you can ask and they will escort you to an elevator. Now as I understand ADA, that is a violation. Separate access is not equal access. Function follows design.

Yawn

I remember when Apple was a computer hardware company.