iPhone 1.0: cheap, carrier-free phone?

Had a very interesting conversation with Aaron Vronko, a founder of Rapid Repair, a firm that specializes in fixing iPods and other small electronics. There hasn’t been a huge market for used phones in the past, but Aaron thinks iPhone will change that, and his company wants to help build that market by refurbishing and […]

What about our 6 million iPhone 1.0s…?

So my $400 iPhone has just been rendered ancienne by the newr, faster, half-price iPhone 2… even by Silicon Valley standards, this is a jolt, and probably not great marketing by Apple (but more about this later). I’m starting to be afraid to buy anything Apple lest a half-price, better, faster version show up a […]

The end of print?

Friend Lonn Lorenz sent this link to Steve Balmer predicting the full demise of print within a decade, in a Washington Post video (guess that says something right there). Over on the Apple side of things, John Markoff reports on the new iPhone (but also check out the MSNBC Flash video on that page, as […]

Apple vs. Google

So, Apple finally noticed that the Internet is a powerful medium, and rapidly becoming the only way people work and play virtually (at least). So long-time orphan .Mac, which, for $100 a year, offers a fraction of the storage and other features that Google gives away for free, is now MobileMe, and Apple wins, right?
Apple […]

New iPhone: Half the price

Great. Our ‘bargain’ $299 iPhone is now overshadowed by the new $199 3G iPhone. We’re expecting to have a little expert commentary on what’s in store for original iPhones, plus a walk-through of .Mac’s replacement MobileMe. Like mine…

Betting on food

Big money is betting on food according to the New York Times, pouring money into farmland, fertilizer, storage, shipping and other infrastructure in the belief that food will only become more valuable in the future. After decades of surpluses (at least in the U.S.), the world is now facing a net shortage.
Indeed the planet is […]

The new Mac Pro comes to life

So, we’ve been slowly getting the new Mac Pro together: I ordered RAM from Other World Computing ($350 vs. around $2,000 from Apple), moved over the hard drives from my former imaging workstation (now Linda’s computer), downloaded vital updates and software and otherwise been provisioning the new machine. Tomorrow we’ll do the (for me) hard […]

Cool pix from Mars

Amazing: the remarkable photo above shows NASA’s Phoenix lander suspended from its parachute shortly before landing. The picture was taken with a telephoto imager (aka the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera) aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The photo on left is one of Phoenix’s first snaps of its new home in Mars’ very chilly […]

Mars in the news

Planet Mars is back in the news this weekend: NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft will attempt one of the most dangerous landings ever tried. The lander will attempt to set down in Mars north polar region after negotiating a perilous 15-minute entry into the Martian atmosphere.
If Phoenix survives the first seven minutes of fierce buffeting and heating […]

The Googlization of Gulker

Google Health debuted yesterday, and I signed right up. Unfortunately, UCSF is not yet on electronic patient records, but my drug store, Long’s is. It was easy to link to Long’s and enter some info about me and my ailments. Subsequently I linked to the My Daily Apple health news site, and it automatically […]

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