0 comments So this article:
When You’ve Got To Go, Go To Mizpee.com
Is probably the weirdest thing I’ve seen in Web 2.0 land. Techcrunch gives coverage to a lot of out there ideas, but I’m with the commentors on this one – it might mean the beginning of the end for web 2.0.
Crazy.
0 comments Interesting iPhone news today. They announced the plans.
They have unlimited data and mobile-to-mobiling calling. They also have a $36 activation fee and are limited to 200 SMS messages. (Unlimited data, but 200 SMS messages? That seems dumb, but hey.)
Anyway, if they are like other AT&T Rate Plans they should also have free nights and weekends.
Comparing these rate plans to the standard ones on the AT&T website seems to indicate that the unlimited data / web is basically $19.95/month.
Finally, it also looks like you can activate your iPhone from iTunes. So you buying the phone and turning it on are separate. So the lines should clear out fast. I was expecting some crazy wait while they tried to turn my phone on. This will also help the resellers who want to flip them. Before this announcement that wasn’t really an option since I didn’ t know how activation would work. Now it might be an option.
0 comments So from my little bit of research on EDGE, it seems like it tops out at about 384kbps and averages more like 150ish. That’s not really all that slow. I mean yeah a few mbps would be better. But speed really isn’t that important for e-mail and well the web…
I have a Motorola Q on Verizon right now. And my web experience has been consistently horrible. Pages don’t load, it’s slow, etc. It’s basically worthless. E-mail works nice (Outlook is pretty good on Windows Mobile and it talks to my Exchange server pretty well). But the web, not so much. I tried to look up an NBA finals basketball score a few weeks ago. Verizon’s little portal thing sucks. ESPN won’t load. Etc.
So I have a lot of confidence in Steve Jobs and Apple to get the experience right. And frankly I’d rather have a browser that renders ESPN correctly running at 200kbps than one that’s running 10 times faster but can’t render the page. One of those is useful, the other is not.
0 comments Apple just launched this new video about the iPhone. Ironically it crashes on Vista and I have yet to get it to play on my XP machine. WTF. Actually, to be clear – when I say “crases on Vista” I mean I get a blue screen of death. It’s happened everytime I’ve tried. Pretty weird.
I’m not surprised about Vista I’ve had to blow up Quicktime a few times because it keeps taking over everything. It’s annoying. I really want to see it. I’m going to try downloading Quicktime… again.
0 comments Ok, this afternoon I scouted out a few locations for next Friday. I checked out an Apple Store and an AT&T Store. I like these choices because they are near each other. No one seemed to know much. The guy I talked to at the AT&T Store said a couple of people had asked about camping out. I’m not that crazy, but it is interesting. The Apple Store has Wi-Fi, so if I hang out there I can at least work / browse the web / blog more effectively. At least until my battery died – I didn’t see any power outlets outside the store. Doh.
Anyway, if they haven’t put together a line strategy yet there may be problems. Like are they going to give numbers? How does one leave to use the facilities? I don’t think I have someone willing to hang out all day with me. That would make things easier.
Right now I’m leaning towards waiting at the Apple Store.
0 comments I have two things I’m curious about with regards to the iPhone and what will happen after release:
See iPhone Tech Specs for more info – they say it is running Mac OS X there.
0 comments Well it’s a week and a half away. I’ve made the decision – I’m going to wait in line for it. Here is why:
So there you have it. I’m plotting my strategy, which really consists of:
I’ll keep you informed.
0 comments I think there are some pros and cons to each. I know a ton of people that just stay logged into ventrilo (a common voice server) all day. I’m not that enamored with the voice chat, but it is definitely useful in World of Warcraft. Certainly for action and socialization, voice chat is pretty cool. Text chat is kind of a nice way to retain anonymity and casualness. Anyway, this article from wired.com is pretty interesting:
0 comments Should be exciting new season 2 rewards (and you can carry 5,000 arena points with you into season 2). The new armor is nearly identical (slight color changes) to the Tier 5 armor for each class. I guess this is because it’s similar in stats/power to Tier 5 armor. (That and creating a ton of new visuals is expensive.)
All the ratings get reset so it’s off to the races again for unknown rewards. This seasons top .5% got super-fast armored netherdrake mounts as rewards – that’s pretty cool. So I’m assuming season 2 will have really cool rewards for the top players as well.
When the stats for the new armor and weapons gets posted somewhere I’ll link to it.
0 comments So I like the Sopranos… I don’t worship it though. It’s a pretty good show and I’ve watched it on and off. I’ve been a little bit more of an avid spectator for the last season because, well, it is the last season. Now it’s over. And let me say: the finale kind of sucked. I mean last week was pretty good and built up to what could have been a compelling end. But really nothing got wrapped up. I guess that’s ok but (vague spoiler) when a show ends in such a way that you think your DVR screwed up and cut off…. well that is just dumb. I mean it wasn’t even a fade to black. It was just black. WTF. Oh well, I guess it’s different. But I hope it’s not a trend, shows that end with a straight cut to black after years – that’s a cop out in my opinion.