Archive for January, 2007

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I have waited so long for something like this to occur. Especially from Dell.

Apparently they started offering machines without windows. They are called the -n series, the hard drives come unformatted. And they explicitely mention Linux. Great.

In other unrelated news, it seems I’ll have to upgrade wordpress since 2.1 came out. Last major upgrade was nothing short of hairy, let’s hope it goes smooth.

Well, you’ve seen it. So have I. You probably have been extremely excited, clutching your credit card tightly into your groin as you watched the keynote. So have I.

And now, it turns out uncle Jobs came out with a total boner killer.

No third party applications on the iPhone.

Jobs said:

“We define everything that is on the phone,” he said. “You don’t want your phone to be like a PC. The last thing you want is to have loaded three apps on your phone and then you go to make a call and it doesn’t work anymore. These are more like iPods than they are like computers.”

He also said:

“These are devices that need to work, and you can’t do that if you load any software on them,” he said. “That doesn’t mean there’s not going to be software to buy that you can load on them coming from us. It doesn’t mean we have to write it all, but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment.”

Of course, the third-party applications on my Treo are such a goddamned liability. Meh.

This probably made a few thousand hackers (myself included) cringe. I was eager to hack around on the device and saw infinite potential. I already saw myself running a terminal on it, and ssh’ing around from my 600$ USD iPhone.

600$ USD is around 705$ CAD. That price would have seemed right if I was allowed to do whatever I damn please with it. Now it is just another overpriced toy which I doubt I’ll ever buy…

Oh well. My bank account is probably happy. As far as I’m concerned now, Steve just announced a very expensive brick.