Hi-Tech Tattoo

Exciting to hear.

Hopefully they've entered a period of sustained growth, one that can carry them far into the future.


Given that they're at 4.7% (averaged), I'll guess they'll cross 5% within the next calendar year. (Though I suspect it may happen before MWSF)

Increased market share can only be a good thing.

Most people I know however, who were using macs at uni or at work, have all switched back to windows in the last year or so and they are not looking back. I suppose marketshare in the UK is not in par with the US. It would be interesting to do a survey of this increased user base and discover the role of the mac platform as it has evolved these days.

I suppose my question is: Has the mac/osx platform changed direction towards its function and purpose? What is a mac with osx good for these days?

A few years back the mac was the platform of choice for the creative class such as designers, photographers, Video editors, etc. Most of these people, with the exception of video editors, have now switched to windows because of the better choice of software and better upgradeability.

IMHO--A solid upgrade. Same price point but more memory, more video ram, fw 800, dual layer burner.

I'm jealous! I have a the original Macbook Pro. But my laptop was just fine yesterday so I won't be upgrading til the next major upgrade.

are you really folding on an air?

Yes. It's a great machine and very capable. I don't experience any overheating issues or such. However, at night, when I'm asleep, I run it on a cooling pad in the kitchen for those "just-in-case" moments. However, during the day, I just run it without the cooling pad since it's pretty loud.

I wonder how Emilio Estevez is doing during all this..

Does anyone know if the home sharing play count bug has been fixed? I'd upgrade if it has but if it hasn't I'll stick with my 4.3.1 jailbreak.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about there was a bug where home sharing to device was not updating song play counts in iTunes like it's suppose to.

It's not a bug.

You had to manually tick a box which counted Home Sharing play counts on the iTunes overall one.

http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=275083&d=1299669590

Ah, so ultimately there will still be 7+ cables, just not connected to the computer itself.

If it's connections to your laptop, that's a win right there. Once you've set up the other connected devices, you won't have to mess with them whenever you go somewhere with the laptop.

Will it support playing graphic intensive Windows games? That's the only think Parallels doesn't do for me. Also, is there any indication of a price?

Competition is always good, but they're going to have their work cut out for them to get me to switch away from Parallels.

boxlight

Meh. It's an Apple. Really getting bored of the Apple look and iOS. To me they just look really cheap now. Already made my decision to get the Galaxy S2. Sorry but if Apple sticks with the 3.7inch screen, they're only gonna fall further back. Let's be honest, the iPhone isn't that great as a phone. It never was. Transmission, reception, and voice quality are poor to average. There's a reason why the iPhone 5 is being delayed. Apple took one look at the current competition and went back to the drawing bored. And that's fine. Any good company should do just that. I've never been a full on blind fanboy, hence my move to the GS2. At the same time, I don't want Apple turning into the next RIM. :o

I love tech that's on the bleeding edge. Right now for me, that's hardware. The tangible undisputed specs. And Samsung's high end GS2 oozes bleeding edge tech. The camera and 1080P video is ridiculously amazing. I'm not the emotional type that gets all caught up with the brainless "it just works" crowd. You know what?, they all "just work." If you don't know how to adapt to any OS, then maybe you just shouldn't even use any device at all. Seriously, they're all easy to use and get used to. Don't get me wrong, Apple to me is still a great brand, but for me the honeymoon is over so to speak.

i would rather have a better feature and higher quality phone than just squeezing into the usual deadline. If apple thinks it is necessary to push back the release than I think there is always some reason behind it.

QuickTime videos won't play after the update.
Anyone having the same issue?

As usual American's (yeah I'm American) love to blame someone for their own responsibility. It's so weird how people on here fight for freedom from the lockdowns that Apple puts on it's developers, freedoms from the limitations and restrictions Apple puts on the iPhone (hence why people jailbreak). Yet when a parent doesn't take accountability for their absence of judgement and legal obligation to be responsible for their child, everyone goes off on Apple for not having the protections in place to prevent this?

There are so many hypocrites in this country, probably because nobody wants to take accountability for their own actions. What if it were a gun. If the parent left it on the night stand with a bullet in it, and the kid picked it up and shot & killed someone, would you all be blaming the maker of the gun? No, you'd be going after the parents for failure to supervise their kid which led to actions causing someone's death.

So why is it different here?

IT'S NOT.

Just updated�Now having a problem with people hearing me. If i use speaker phone they can hear me just fine. I have done a voice memo, and it sounds like I'm being recorded at half volume. Anyone else having this problem :mad:

I'm a little confused. People want to play games on this?

Would not be my first choice for gaming (not that I play games, but I did do flight sims once)

Is there anything else I should be concerned about? Maybe external monitor resolution? Movies?....I don't think so.

Big problem for intensive video stuff perhaps? but then again; an Air?

:confused:

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8G4 Safari/6533.18.5)

Alerts for birthday entries? Is it finally being implemented?

on my first gen ipad I had problems installing and had to do a restore, but after restore its working just fine.

I've tried that. I get the same "device isn't eligible" error.

We lost our spot again. We passed Team Lithuania for a brief time as yesterday was a big day for us and a bad one for them.

oh ok. well we are now #60. so someone else must have passed us as well. looks like we're safe there for a couple months at least

I love how so many fanboys love it when Apple makes money from expensive products.

Some of us think those "expensive" products are worth every penny.

Some of us own AAPL shares and benefit from the company's success.

When your company rips you off you don't turn around and say good job keep it up.

You want rip-off? Microsoft makes its billions charging hundreds for a 10-cent CD in a dollar's worth of packaging. So does Adobe. Where's your outrage?

Nokia is dying.

Ballmer is providing mouth-to-mouth.

(Personally, I'd choose death.)

well then maybe i'll pay 30% of my bill... =P

I have both the white and black 32gb iPhone 4's next to me now. How anyone can say one feels immediately thicker than the other is beyond me lol.

Make this a part of my current MobileMe $199 family subscription.

I somehow have the feeling the the MobileMe service as we know it will stop to exist. Maybe they will offer some features 'a la cart' or a more expensive buffet option.

Figure that, unless it becomes active enough to warrant doing so, one thread for OC should be fine.

We've got South Coast, Irvine, and Brea, maybe another one I'm forgetting.

Anyway, for those going to the store on Friday, this seems like a good place to post line lengths and poke around to meet up with fellow MR members.

I'll be going to the Brea Mall store around 3PM or so.

For the South County folks:

-- Fashion Island
-- Shops @ Mission Viejo

I have both the white and black 32gb iPhone 4's next to me now. How anyone can say one feels immediately thicker than the other is beyond me lol.
pics or it didn't happen

Safe to say at this point we will have to wait. Man, I had that upgrade waiting. But then again, what's another three months to wait from the usual release date?

sounds interesting, though i have a feeling many people will just ignore the feature and end up touching the screen anyway, lol.