| Friday, July 11, 2008 |
16:03 - Is this thing on?
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So what's all this about strange doin's a-happenin' in Apple land?
What with all the MobileMe transition foibles and iPhone 2.0 fooferaw, and my .Mac consequently exploding and making my machine go into six-hour sync cycles that never quit and then repeatedly prompt me to approve sync changes, and a Mac OS X Update for MobileMe that showed up inexplicably twice in a row on the same machine (I can't tell if it's two different updates, one that was a hurried emergency patch over the first one, or if the first one didn't "take"), and then iTunes 7.7 obstinately refusing to admit to me that there's an iPhone 2.0 update out that might enable me to install the various apps I've downloaded (man, do I ever want Remote), and then all the news that the 2.0 update—if delivered to a lucky recipient—stands a good chance of bricking that person's phone, I'm feeling sort of like I'd better just wait.
I mean, it's got to clear up eventually, right?
But as for the phone, Lileks tells me:
It comes in white! It comes in white!
Reportedly there is no EVE branding available, though... but he and I both think it's curious that white has been so unceremoniously phased out of the regular iPod lineup, only to reappear in the iPhone, right after Pixar produces a movie that would seem to function as a living, breathing tie-in. Apple plugs in the movie, movie plugs on the devices—isn't that how symbiosis works?
Anyway—I'll poke my head back out of its hole and see if I'm still seeing my shadow in a day or two, and then maybe I can join the party...
UPDATE (7/12/08, 5:55 PM) All upgraded now, and it's working dandy-like. Remote rocks my world.
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Brian Tiemann
