Today the Apple community shouts a big hurrah to the news that the previously rumoured January 27th event, something every blog and podcast, including this one, have been speculating about for the past month or so, is now in fact a real thing!
ArsTechnica seem to be the first of the mainstream tech-blogs to publish the story, followed by Engadget and Gizmodo soon after. All confirm the event shall take place at 10:00am in the Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts and Theatre, San Francisco. Known as the regular location for previous iPod/iTunes events in September, and with no Macworld Expo keynote from Apple this year, it seems like a good place for Apple to show their “latest creation” to the world in a month that has introduced us to the Mac Mini, iPhone and MacBook Air in previous years. (more…)
As one of the more public Mac users, I have a lot of experience evangelizing for Apple and the Macintosh among my school community. I have come to realize that when I get into a conversation with a Windows user, they almost always end in one of three ways.
- I convince them and they agree with me that Macs have value and are worthwhile, and sometimes they even look into drinking the koolaid.
- They sort of grumble and walk away, realizing that I have beaten them, but refusing to admit it. This is generally the most common.
What is unfortunate is that the following response is becoming more and more common:
- “Macs are overpriced and not worth what Apple charges because I can get any software for free.”
This, of course, means that he pirates software. I hate pirates. They ruin everything for everyone else.
They make small developers struggle because people aren’t paying them, they make large companies (cough Adobe cough) keep their prices high, and they perpetuate DRM and license enforcement (cough Microsoft cough RIAA cough MPAA cough). Their stealing (yes, that’s right, folks. Software and media piracy is STEALING) ruins the experience for everyone else. (more…)
