Archive for January, 2007

Bill Gates on the Daily Show

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

I was slightly disappointed with Jon Stewart’s interview with Bill Gates yesterday on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart (or perhaps more appropriately titled the Vista Infomercial with Jon Stewart). Just about every question Jon asked lacked imagination (though I did like the Flying Toasters comment). My perception of poor questioning is probably the result of Microsoft talking points for those less techno savvy (Jon did apologize upfront for not being much of a PC user).

In any case, the Daily Show fully redeemed itself tonight by crashing with an IE error explaining why Bill prematurely left the stage prior to commercial. The error box said in part, “Bill Gates has encountered a problem and needs to leave. We are sorry for the inconvenience. We have created an error report that you can send to help us improve Bill Gates.”

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Hello Apple iPhone!

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Apple stockAt long last, Apple announced the iPhone! For months I’ve been tossing around the idea of buying a Nokia N80. Scratch that idea. Hello iPhone.

MacRumors.com provided great live coverage… with perhaps one exception. At 9:18 am (PST) MacRumors (erroneously?) reported, “we’re only talking about the mac today”. Two minutes later Apple’s stock dropped roughly $2, only to bounce back up when the iPhone was officially introduced. Whoops.

[Update] – From the keynote video available on iTunes, the following is what Steve Jobs said.

“So, 2007 is going to be a great year for the Mac. But this is all we’re going to talk about the Mac today. We’re going to move on to some other things and over the course of the next several months we’re going to roll out some awesome stuff for the Mac. But for today we’re going to move on.”

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mobile, iPhone | 2 Comments »