{"id":70,"date":"2007-01-10T14:02:44","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T13:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/01\/10\/now-for-the-things-im-not-excited-about\/"},"modified":"2007-01-10T14:02:44","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T13:02:44","slug":"now-for-the-things-im-not-excited-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/10\/now-for-the-things-im-not-excited-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Now for the things I&#8217;m NOT excited about&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MacWorld &#8211; usually a love-fest for Steve Jobs, and all things IPod&#8230;. has proved that apple fan-boys are even more full of shit than I thought they were&#8230;.. where&#8217;s the innovation in <a title=\"iPhone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>? <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Music Player &#8211; been done.  <\/li>\n<li>Touch Screen &#8211; see it before.  <\/li>\n<li>E-Mail &#8211; yep, got that. Web Browser &#8211; yawn&#8230;..  <\/li>\n<li>Ooooh, hang on &#8211; oh&#8230;. no it&#8217;s EDGE (not&nbsp; a lot of use in the UK) &#8211; not 3G \/ HSDPA &#8211; so not worth having for data really in this day and age&#8230;.. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where&#8217;s the &#8220;Breakthrough Internet Device&#8221;? All I see is a bunch of things my Ipaq 3970 could do with my bluetooth enabled phone 3-4 years ago &#8211; OK so it&#8217;s all in one piece of hardware now &#8211; but it&#8217;s not exactly NEW&#8230;.. My <a title=\"A better option....\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nokia.co.uk\/A4221031\" target=\"_blank\">E61<\/a> will do all of the above &#8211; and it&#8217;s 3G&#8230;&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>As for the AppleTV announcement &#8211; can I be any more underwhelmed? It&#8217;s not 1080i &#8211; just 720i so it&#8217;s not Hi-Def enough for my liking&#8230;. and it&#8217;s all DRM&#8217;d up &#8211; the usual Apple &#8220;Fairplay&#8221; bullshit &#8211; so I can share the content with 3 TV&#8217;s in my house &#8211; big fuckin&#8217; deal &#8211; I still need to cable them together somehow as far as I can see&#8230;. what use is that?<\/p>\n<p>Steve &#8211; I&#8217;m sorry to say this &#8211; but I just don&#8217;t give a shit&#8230;. I&#8217;d LOVE a <a title=\"I want one...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/uk\/macbookpro\/\" target=\"_blank\">MacBook Pro<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; running Vista of course&#8230;.. \ud83d\ude42 but OSX would be nice to play with now and again&#8230;. but the whole &#8220;I-&lt;insert random name here&gt;&#8221;&nbsp;thing fails to get my juices flowing&#8230;. I like to rip my CD&#8217;s to MP3 without DRM and be able to move them around and put them on whateve device I like &#8211; I HATE the idea of being tied into a bullshit ecosystem that means that I can&#8217;t change to the device that I like&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;\/rant&gt; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacWorld &#8211; usually a love-fest for Steve Jobs, and all things IPod&#8230;. has proved that apple fan-boys are even more full of shit than I thought they were&#8230;.. where&#8217;s the innovation in this? Music Player &#8211; been done. 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