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Who cares about rumors regarding the new iShit?

Apple's known to set new trend in the Computer industry. Apple takes risks (Floppies, USB, Firewire, MacOS X, etc...) You will never see such behaviour from MS nor OSS camps.

Let's just say that if Jobs announces an "iPhone" tomorrow there will be a lot of people who will be crapping their pants in fear.

And quite frankly, I am very curious as to what are the Leopard's top secret features.

Let's just say that if Jobs announces an "iPhone" tomorrow there will be a lot of people who will be crapping their pants in fear.

There will indeed. Many of them will be Apple shareholders. Quite right too!

But why report rumors? Why not wait 24 hours and just report what happened. That is after all what people are interested in. I want to know what apple actually will release, not what some random fanboy hopes they might release.

Apple takess risks

You need to start sharing your stash, especially considering I am dry at the moment.

Apple doesn't take risks, just look at the interface of OS X. It's basically same shit as windows just with more eye candy and some differences from windows. It does not represent a radical departure from typical UI design. While I don't recommend change for the sake of change, they could have at least conducted some usability studies and tried something new (aren't they supposed to be different from MS?). And I am talking radically different UI that will make current UI design seem like a joke.

Apple takes risks (Floppies, USB, Firewire, MacOS X, etc...)

Floppies? Are you talking about the introduction of floppies in Apple II? How was that a risk? I really don't get your argument... Same applies to USB/Firewire. OS X was not really a risk, arguably it does not really represent a paradigm shift in OS/UI design. Plus Apple ability to control the hardware that their OS runs on makes such a change a lot less risky.

You will never see such behavior from MS nor OSS camps.

OSS and MS are primarily involved in software, so hardware risks/experiments are kind of limited (for an example of risky innovation think of AMD decision to introduce consumer level 64bit processors, now thats a innovation based risk, not introducing floppies). I don't know about MS, but you obviously don't jack shit about OSS culture/software. While current OSS culture has a whole range of drawbacks, not experimenting with every aspect of software imaginable is not one of them. Think of the Suse start menu, Mezzo desktop, plasma, Gobolinux. OSS is all about making conceptual software... That's the reason the GPL exists, so people can tinker with software to try new approaches, not to be forced to use the so called 'innovative' products by MS and Apple.

Your dedication to Apple is fascinating. The kind of words that you use in your post makes it seem as if you are a hopeless fanboy.

Who cares about rumors regarding the new iShit?

Clearly you don't. Fortunately this site caters to more people than just yourself.

Edited 2007-01-09 05:10

I know bashing computer companies is the cool thing to do in the tech world, but seriously what's the big deal about posting some speculation? It happens EVERY year during the week before Macworld and WWDC. It's something that most Mac fans seem to enjoy. What's a little harmless fun?

Edited 2007-01-09 07:37

I know bashing computer companies is the cool thing to do in the tech world, but seriously what's the big deal about posting some speculation? It happens EVERY year during the week before Macworld and WWDC. It's something that most Mac fans seem to enjoy. What's a little harmless fun?

It offends him because he is insecure. Clearly a mac-owner beat him up and stole his girlfriend once.