jobs' yacht

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/10/steve-jobs-custom-aluminum-hulled-super-yacht-venus-now-seaworthy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29

is it supposed to be like an ipod?...looks crappy...

tablets

mac vs pc...jobs vs gates...the truth is star trek...saw this pic going around on g+, and it's been discussed now and then in various tech articles about science fiction predicting technology but someone decided to make a picture in true interweb meme fashion

http://www.androidauthority.com/apple-samsung-patent-war-69575/

a related article about apple's patent lawsuit against samsung...there is a video there from 1994 about a future tablet, which is hurting apple's claim that samsung stole their tablet design

excerpt from the article:

The design in question is a rectangle with rounded corners and a big glass screen, which, for anyone with some sense, doesn’t sound like an awfully original concept. However, as today’s legal system is more complicated than some of us can understand, the legal heads at Apple really had a shot at proving they had invented the whole “rectangle with bla bla…” concept.

That is before this video surfaced, showing off and, hopefully definitively proving, that Apple didn’t, in fact, create a groundbreaking and innovative design concept with the iPad, but rather took something pretty simple and straightforward and refined it and gave it polish.

new mac book pro

interesting article about how consumers' buying decisions allowed apple to go from making laptops that are easy to upgrade and repair to making ones that are not

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/opinion-apple-retina-displa/

you can't even replace the battery without paying 200 bucks...can't even put in extra memory...apple fans must think that a $2000 laptop is disposable...apple has gotten too good at brainwashing people to want the newest even when the ipad, iphone, and macbook that they have is perfectly fine...they have become so good at what they do, that customers expect to get ripped off and a lack of choice is seen as a good thing...i'll stick with my windows machine...i used a p4 for 7-8 years with one upgrade in ram and hard drive...now i'm on my 5th year with a core 2 duo with an upgrade in memory and ssd with probably at least 3 more years of life in the pc...can't do that with apple...at least with the ones that are made now