It seems that even in the total absence of major events or product updates, Apple still can't get around to releasing the services they already announced.
Watch. Next week, new PowerMacs announced. Stated availability: Mid-May. When you actually get yours: Late July. When you actually get a working one after sending yours back four or five times: Early September. Next update announced: October.
Sadly, Luca, you're probably more right than you think. That doesn't sound like a far-out scenario at all, unfortunately.
"Announcing today, shipping in 6 weeks, actually on your desk by Labor Day, defect-related issues and recalls in 4 months, bugs ironed out sometime next winter. Order today!"
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Yes, the G5 changed EVERYTHING, hasn't it? Oooohhh!
Watch. Next week, new PowerMacs announced. Stated availability: Mid-May. When you actually get yours: Late July. Next update announced: October. When you actually get a working one after sending yours back four or five times: Early December.
Watch. Next week, new PowerMacs announced. Stated availability: Mid-May. When you actually get yours: Late July. When you actually get a working one after sending yours back four or five times: Early September. Next update announced: October..
What were Jobs' words exactly, regarding this whole "3GHz" thing? Did he say:
a. "We'll be a 3GHz a year from today" (June 2004)
or did he say
b. "We'll be at 3GHz next year" (which technically gives them until December 31, but some of you goons took to mean exactly 12 months from June 23, 2003, and you've marked that day on your calendar).
Did he truly say it in such a way to make everyone look at June 23, 2004 as the end-all/be-all "better have it!" date?
Because if it's "b", some of you are gonna be MAD!
What were Jobs' words exactly, regarding this whole "3GHz" thing? Did he say:
a. "We'll be a 3GHz a year from today" (June 2004)
or did he say
b. "We'll be at 3GHz next year" (which technically gives them until December 31, but some of you goons took to mean exactly 12 months from June 23, 2003, and you've marked that day on your calendar).
Did he truly say it in such a way to make everyone look at June 23, 2004 as the end-all/be-all "better have it!" date?
Because if it's "b", some of you are gonna be MAD!
Doesn't really matter what he said...Because he said (in January) "this is going to be a great year", and it'sonly April 12th and people have written the year off.
To say nothing of the fact that everyone is complaining about "yearly PMG5 updates" when it has only been 6 months.
Doesn't really matter what he said...Because he said (in January) "this is going to be a great year", and it'sonly April 12th and people have written the year off.
What like last year he said it was the year of the laptop? If he said '03 was the "year of music" I'd have copped that. If he said it was the year Apple reentered the speed race, I could understand. These sort of statements always leaving me thinking that about half the time Apple themselves don't have a f**king clue what's going on.
Anyway, what bugs me about the current situation is that they just seem to have lost all that momentum, that head of steam, they seemed to have built up last year.
But maybe it's just the perspective of someone living somewhere that has neither iTMS or iPod minis yet.
What like last year he said it was the year of the laptop? If he said '03 was the "year of music" I'd have copped that. If he said it was the year Apple reentered the speed race, I could understand. These sort of statements always leaving me thinking that about half the time Apple themselves don't have a f**king clue what's going on.
Or that he is just making hyperbolic marketing statements. Not Steve! No way!
Well, any way you want to paint it...it's been a disheartening and uncomfortably quiet 3-and-a-half months. And for a 20th anniversary year (that Jobs himself played up and mentioned at the MWSF keynote).
To date: G5 Xserve and iPod minis...both of which still aren't readily, easily available.
That ain't whining. That's just true facts.
That #&!$*% idiotic G5 graphic on the front page (for THREE WEEKS-PLUS NOW) ain't helping my mood either...
Came off an AMAZING, headspinning 2003 with all that momentum and positive attention generated by the G5, Panther and the iTMS/iPod stuff...and it's COMPLETELY petered out. Hell, even us Apple geeks aren't that excited or torqued up anymore. We expected a little action in February. Nope. Surely something in March? Nope. Halfway through April...nope.
You can't help but get a little dejected at the silence and complete lack of anything cool and exciting. Again, especially considering it's a big anniversary year that the CEO himself said was going to be marked and see some "great things".
I'm lookin'...I'm waitin'...I want to be excited and chirpy again...I want to come here to AI and actually have something to TALK about...
I ain't bitching or whining...I'm just saying what pretty much everyone here is probably thinking or feeling, to varying degrees. I'm not saying anything that isn't true.
They COULD spread it around a little, you know? They just gonna wait and save it up and spring it on us some October afternoon when we least expect it?
And I'm saying, we may still see some "great things"...there is another 8 months to go after all.
You say that like it's a good thing.
I've started having visions of shriveled up old people hunched over their computers, grotesquely deformed arthritic fingers typing away ("Powermac updates next Tuesday...."), some are wearing Depends, others are dribbling from the corners of their mouths.........
Aaaaaaaahhhhhh! Nose hair! Acres and acres of nose hair.
Oh calm down people, it is not all that bad. You all need to ease up a bit.
The year started off very promising indeed, just look at the nice Mini-iPods and XServes that are indeed starting to ship. It will not end there. At WWDC there will be *new* and *exciting* product announcements - and that is only just over 2 month away
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Watch. Next week, new PowerMacs announced. Stated availability: Mid-May. When you actually get yours: Late July. When you actually get a working one after sending yours back four or five times: Early September. Next update announced: October.
Here's hoping that doesn't happen.
"Announcing today, shipping in 6 weeks, actually on your desk by Labor Day, defect-related issues and recalls in 4 months, bugs ironed out sometime next winter. Order today!"
Yes, the G5 changed EVERYTHING, hasn't it? Oooohhh!
Originally posted by Luca
Watch. Next week, new PowerMacs announced. Stated availability: Mid-May. When you actually get yours: Late July. Next update announced: October. When you actually get a working one after sending yours back four or five times: Early December.
Fixed that for you.
Originally posted by Luca
Watch. Next week, new PowerMacs announced. Stated availability: Mid-May. When you actually get yours: Late July. When you actually get a working one after sending yours back four or five times: Early September. Next update announced: October..
[elton john] it's the ciiiircle of liiiife[/john
I think things will go much smoother for the PM G5s from the next release on. Now whether they'll be able to get to 3Ghz by July...
a. "We'll be a 3GHz a year from today" (June 2004)
or did he say
b. "We'll be at 3GHz next year" (which technically gives them until December 31, but some of you goons took to mean exactly 12 months from June 23, 2003, and you've marked that day on your calendar).
Did he truly say it in such a way to make everyone look at June 23, 2004 as the end-all/be-all "better have it!" date?
Because if it's "b", some of you are gonna be MAD!
"We'll be able to scale it to 3Ghz in a year."
Others, correct me if I'm wrong.
Originally posted by Wrong Robot
[elton john] it's the ciiiircle of liiiife[/john
I know exactly the way he sings that, its funny you typed it like that.
Originally posted by pscates
What were Jobs' words exactly, regarding this whole "3GHz" thing? Did he say:
a. "We'll be a 3GHz a year from today" (June 2004)
or did he say
b. "We'll be at 3GHz next year" (which technically gives them until December 31, but some of you goons took to mean exactly 12 months from June 23, 2003, and you've marked that day on your calendar).
Did he truly say it in such a way to make everyone look at June 23, 2004 as the end-all/be-all "better have it!" date?
Because if it's "b", some of you are gonna be MAD!
Doesn't really matter what he said...Because he said (in January) "this is going to be a great year", and it'sonly April 12th and people have written the year off.
To say nothing of the fact that everyone is complaining about "yearly PMG5 updates" when it has only been 6 months.
No matter what Apple does...someone will whine.
Originally posted by Chris Cuilla
Doesn't really matter what he said...Because he said (in January) "this is going to be a great year", and it'sonly April 12th and people have written the year off.
What like last year he said it was the year of the laptop? If he said '03 was the "year of music" I'd have copped that. If he said it was the year Apple reentered the speed race, I could understand. These sort of statements always leaving me thinking that about half the time Apple themselves don't have a f**king clue what's going on.
Anyway, what bugs me about the current situation is that they just seem to have lost all that momentum, that head of steam, they seemed to have built up last year.
But maybe it's just the perspective of someone living somewhere that has neither iTMS or iPod minis yet.
Originally posted by crazychester
What like last year he said it was the year of the laptop? If he said '03 was the "year of music" I'd have copped that. If he said it was the year Apple reentered the speed race, I could understand. These sort of statements always leaving me thinking that about half the time Apple themselves don't have a f**king clue what's going on.
Or that he is just making hyperbolic marketing statements. Not Steve! No way!
To date: G5 Xserve and iPod minis...both of which still aren't readily, easily available.
That ain't whining. That's just true facts.
That #&!$*% idiotic G5 graphic on the front page (for THREE WEEKS-PLUS NOW) ain't helping my mood either...
Came off an AMAZING, headspinning 2003 with all that momentum and positive attention generated by the G5, Panther and the iTMS/iPod stuff...and it's COMPLETELY petered out. Hell, even us Apple geeks aren't that excited or torqued up anymore. We expected a little action in February. Nope. Surely something in March? Nope. Halfway through April...nope.
You can't help but get a little dejected at the silence and complete lack of anything cool and exciting. Again, especially considering it's a big anniversary year that the CEO himself said was going to be marked and see some "great things".
I'm lookin'...I'm waitin'...I want to be excited and chirpy again...I want to come here to AI and actually have something to TALK about...
I ain't bitching or whining...I'm just saying what pretty much everyone here is probably thinking or feeling, to varying degrees. I'm not saying anything that isn't true.
Originally posted by pscates
Again, especially considering it's a big anniversary year that the CEO himself said was going to be marked and see some "great things".
And I'm saying, we may still see some "great things"...there is another 8 months to go after all.
Originally posted by Chris Cuilla
And I'm saying, we may still see some "great things"...there is another 8 months to go after all.
You say that like it's a good thing.
I've started having visions of shriveled up old people hunched over their computers, grotesquely deformed arthritic fingers typing away ("Powermac updates next Tuesday...."), some are wearing Depends, others are dribbling from the corners of their mouths.........
Aaaaaaaahhhhhh! Nose hair! Acres and acres of nose hair.
The year started off very promising indeed, just look at the nice Mini-iPods and XServes that are indeed starting to ship. It will not end there. At WWDC there will be *new* and *exciting* product announcements - and that is only just over 2 month away
Hehe don't I just love cruel jokes