OK, I’m convinced, I want the new iPod touch 
Check out this guided tour of Apple’s new baby.
Visit the iPod touch page for more info. You can also find the link to Steve Jobs’ keynote address there.
Let’s just hope that the iTunes online store will finally become available in the Philippines.
OK, I’ve finally seen the light
After years of being in the PC camp – it’s been almost 13 years since I last used an Apple computer – a few days ago I left the, er, Dark Side and embraced the Mac.
New Mac convert here, so pardon me if I gush over things I know every Mac user might take for granted, heh. (I mean, seriously, how come it’s so easy to boot up and shut down when Windows takes forever?) So say hello to the sleek new MacBook Pro with the 15.4-inch screen that the office has assigned to me, which my five-and-a-half-year-old daughter Sam and I have christened Mikaela.
A FEW days ago, I blogged about the iPhone launch in the US and included an Agence France-Presse photo of Jonathan (not John, as he was identified in the AFP caption) Mariano, who was first in line at the Apple Store at The Grove shopping center in Los Angeles, California.
In that blog entry, I wondered aloud if Mariano was a Filipino, and guess what? He is! He posted a comment on that blog entry simply saying, “Pinoy ako (I am a Filipino)!” and included a link to his blog that documents the iPhone launch in LA and his unexpected brush with fame when he turned out to be the first in line.
How cool is that?
SO, think the Apple iPhone will eventually be supported by Smart, Globe or Sun in the Philippines?
I’m not going to lie — the iPhone looks incredibly sexy and I’m drooling with technolust.
How about you, do you have an iPhone already? How are you loving it so far? And to those who are here in the Philippines, would you buy one once it makes its way here?
Of course, based on past experience, our resident geniuses in Greenhills and other shops in the Philippines will probably unlock the iPhone so that it can be used on our carriers’ networks, but it would be great if it would be officially supported and if we would be able to access all the features. Like launching the iTunes store here already, Apple.
IT was a rare moment: Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs, the two icons of the personal computing age, together on stage — something that hasn’t happened in a long time.
Of course it was all over the news, and it’s interesting to read that the two longtime rivals acted more like friends as they traded quips and reminisced about the good old days of computing.
Bill and Steve almost seem tailor-made as rivals in an epic tale for the digital age. The two of them are so different that they’re almost caricatures — like comic book characters destined to oppose each other. Bill and Microsoft are almost universally bashed, while Steve and Apple are, well, the apple of a lot of people’s eyes. Bill’s a geek. Steve’s cool. Bill is coldly logical. Steve’s the mystical dude with the “reality distortion field.”
