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From: Ian McCall on 12 Jun 2010 08:09
Hmm.

He does go on a bit, doesn't he? That whole thing would have been much
better at one hour long tops. Maybe I'm just becoming jaded, but it
really did seem very dragged out.

On the plus side, Apple at least got the podcast feed right for the
first time in about a year.

Cheers,
Ian

From: Chris Ridd on 12 Jun 2010 09:27
On 2010-06-12 13:09:26 +0100, Ian McCall said:

> Hmm.
>
> He does go on a bit, doesn't he? That whole thing would have been much
> better at one hour long tops. Maybe I'm just becoming jaded, but it
> really did seem very dragged out.

I thought so too. It seemed a little repetitive too, and I wish they
wouldn't bother showing the ads. But at least we didn't have to endure
John Mayer playing at the end.

> On the plus side, Apple at least got the podcast feed right for the
> first time in about a year.

The last one worked for me as well.
--
Chris

From: Ian McCall on 12 Jun 2010 10:54
On 2010-06-12 14:27:10 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said:

> On 2010-06-12 13:09:26 +0100, Ian McCall said:
>
>> On the plus side, Apple at least got the podcast feed right for the
>> first time in about a year.
>
> The last one worked for me as well.

Yep, the last one they posted twice - one worked, one didn't. For some
reason the earlier one was fine then they posted a broken one. Guess
which one I got...

Cheers,
Ian

From: Jochem Huhmann on 13 Jun 2010 14:24
Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> writes:

> Hmm.
>
> He does go on a bit, doesn't he? That whole thing would have been much
> better at one hour long tops. Maybe I'm just becoming jaded, but it
> really did seem very dragged out.

There was one thing that really made me cringe: When Jobs facetimed
Jonathan Ive and kept joking about the WiFi problem, Ive tried to smile
but you could actually see him thinking "What is the guy talking about?
Has he finally gone nuts?". This was very much like me walking into a
pub dead-sober and meet some buddy joking and grinning about something I
just can't understand at all. Eerie.

Apart from that: Yes, it was a bit long. Still, seeing a CEO of a large
company actually explaining why megapixels alone are not that important
in a camera and getting enough photons into the sensor is the real
challenge nearly made me clap my hands in front of my computer. I've
been waiting for *years* for a company making smartphones having the
balls to give up on just raising the megapixels bar and start to talk
about capturing light, which still is the thing photography is all
about.


Jochem

--
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longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Pd on 14 Jun 2010 05:29
Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote:

> Still, seeing a CEO of a large company actually explaining why megapixels
> alone are not that important in a camera and getting enough photons into
> the sensor is the real challenge nearly made me clap my hands in front of
> my computer. I've been waiting for *years* for a company making
> smartphones having the balls to give up on just raising the megapixels bar
> and start to talk about capturing light, which still is the thing
> photography is all about.

That's marketing for you. My old 3.2 megapixel Ixus takes better
pictures than my wife's newer 7 megapixel Panasonic.

--
Pd
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