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From: Chris Ridd on 21 Apr 2010 04:49 On 2010-04-21 09:10:05 +0100, Jim said: > On 2010-04-21, Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: >> >> Come on, this is Apple. `extraordinary' is a pretty ordinary word for >> them. I'm certain Jobs describes his morning Weetabix as `incredible and >> revolutionary'. >> >> We have a little running joke at work where we describe everything using >> RDF adjectives, eg. `How was your lunch?' `Magical! The sandwich man >> was super-responsive!' > > Every time I see the word 'magical' in relation to iPad advertising, I > cringe. I _really_ wish they wouldn't use that word. And then I went to the toilet, and "boom"! -- Chris
From: Chris Ridd on 21 Apr 2010 04:50 On 2010-04-21 09:22:41 +0100, D.M. Procida said: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> On 2010-04-21, Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: >>> >>> Come on, this is Apple. `extraordinary' is a pretty ordinary word for >>> them. I'm certain Jobs describes his morning Weetabix as `incredible and >>> revolutionary'. >>> >>> We have a little running joke at work where we describe everything using >>> RDF adjectives, eg. `How was your lunch?' `Magical! The sandwich man >>> was super-responsive!' >> >> Every time I see the word 'magical' in relation to iPad advertising, I >> cringe. I _really_ wish they wouldn't use that word. > > They're only saying that because it is merely magical, and not actually > magic. > > When they work out how to make actual magic iPods - wow. I wonder if MST is working for them yet? -- Chris
From: D.M. Procida on 21 Apr 2010 05:34 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > > They're only saying that because it is merely magical, and not actually > > magic. > > > > When they work out how to make actual magic iPods - wow. > > I wonder if MST is working for them yet? Is that more reality distortion, or is it actual magic? The problem is that any sufficiently advanced reality distortion field is in fact indistinguishable from magic. Daniele
From: Jon on 21 Apr 2010 05:56 On 21/04/2010 9:04am, Ben Shimmin wrote: > I'm certain Jobs describes his morning Weetabix as `incredible and > revolutionary'. They don't have Weetabix in the US!
From: T i m on 21 Apr 2010 05:56
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:19:51 +0100, real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: >Not that it's entirely your fault... > >it's /everyone/ who falls for the trap and gets into the nattering >speculation about what magical whatever The Steve or his stand-in will >unveil next time. But this is an Apple / Mac related newsgroup Rolly so what else would you expect? I'm pretty sure that all this is no more than you find in any field, be it fishing and speculation re what material the 6th Gen range of Acme rods will be made from, to me looking for a good tin opener that would be easy to use for someone with arthritis. To most people a tin opener is a tin opener. Re the Apple stuff, I'm still regularly amazed how many people still have no idea what or who Apple is, only possibly knowing of them indirectly through things like the iPod / iPhone (but not knowing the 'Apple' bit and the spread of their product range as such). Just as I wouldn't recognise the logos or realise / care about the 'standing' of Adidas, Puma or Nike. I'm not 'into' trainers so they have no interest to me (and buy whatever I can find that will fit my flippers at the local market [1]). Like you and Tex (or whatever it is called), you obviously like it and probably couldn't live without it (I don't mean that literally of course) and I had never heard of it before coming here and couldn't see the point of it until you explained it to me in great detail. I still can't actually 'see' what it does even now (but that doesn't matter). So, let them have their speculations ... till any of them actually get their mitts on the iPad there doesn't seem to be much else going on? ;-) Cheers, T i m [1] Well, because I'm so uninterested, when my favourite trainers get so dirty the Mrs wouldn't be seen out with me in them, 'she' picks up a pair of what she thinks I could get on and brings them home for me to try. If they don't fit, she takes them back again (because she knows the alternative is me going out in my old favourites and she's unlikely to drag me out especially to buy some). ;-) |