Monday, January 7, 2002 |
00:39 - Lileks Comes Through In the Clutch
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Looks like I was worried needlessly about whether Lileks would pan today's keynote offerings; apparently I should just get some sleep and quit worrying. He says:
I have to smile at the people who scoff at the movable screen - how many times do you have to reposition the screen? they ask. Well, at least once a week I call my wife in to look at a picture or a snippet of video, and to get the best angle she has to sit in my chair while I lean over and type commands. The pivotable screen is tailor-made for showing other people what you've done while you sit at the keyboard - a small thing, sure. Sure. But it confirms my suspicion: that bastard Jobs is watching me. I have a kid, I shoot movies, I take pictures, I make CDs of music and DVDs of family events so we can actually watch them now and then without digging through a box of tapes; I like to carry my entire music collection wherever I go, and every so often my wife pops in to look over my shoulder. It's as if they designed a computer that conforms exactly to what I need.
And he defends iPhoto, the new picture management doohickey, with equal vigor. Ol' Lileks is a harsh critic of Apple when it's deserved, but I can always seem to depend on an uplifting, reassuring analysis from his direction when I'm wandering in a mist like I have been today.
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