The AppleTV’s Potential
Merlin Mann says: The problem, as many folks have discussed at length, is that the file size for HD movies, in particular, may be prohibitively large for the garden-variety home broadband user. Storage isn’t a problem anymore. I just saw a 500GB USB drive for $140. Since the AppleTV isn’t meant to store this stuff [...]
Piracy is Good?
How Battlestar Galactica Killed Broadcast TV via Mindjack How Battlestar Galactica came to be Time’s ‘Show of the Year’ is a very interesting story. Not many people would think that a remake of a mediocre TV show would be such a hit. But with the talent and network and a little illegal filesharing, it did [...]
The New iMac, iPod and the Future
The iMac The new design isn’t that revolutionary. It’s pretty much what we saw before, but thinner. (Just like almost everything else from Apple these days.) I showed it to my parents and they could hardly believe that “that’s the whole computer.” The ‘wow’ factor doesn’t affect me much, cause I’m the guy who walks [...]