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Steve Jobs: Now More Liverier!

June 22nd, 2009
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steve-jobsReports have surfaced that Steve Jobs, the beloved co-founder of Apple (Along with ballroom dancer Steve Wozniak), has undergone a liver transplant in Tennessee.

How this will affect individual owners of iPhones, iPods and Macs is currently unknown, but that hasn’t stopped the tongue-wagging of MacHeads around the world.

“Now that Steve has a new liver, I’m hoping that will bring tethering to the iPhone on AT&T,” said Nicky Manning, a frustrated customer and independent filmmaker.

“It’s a new day…and a new liver,” said Carole Myers of Fort Myers. “I’ve been waiting to upgrade to the new MacBooks and this is just the kind of news that will make me take the plunge.”

Even stock analysts were thrilled at the news.

“Steve’s new liver will surely clear the way for a Mac netbook,” said Lehman analyst Bart Schroeder. “It’s the one component of their lineup that’s still missing, and I think this liver is the right liver to make that happen.”

But ever-grumpy tech columnist John C. Dvorak isn’t so sure. “It may be a new liver. But it’s the same old Apple!”

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Mockaholic’s WWDC Predictions

June 8th, 2009
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Okay, so today’s the big day for all the Mac Fanboys out there. Phil will stroll out onto the stage and present the latest and greatest to Apple’s legion of developers (and everyone else too).

Engadget and Gizmodo will be each blogging live, and I’ll be nervously hitting refresh…refresh…refresh over and over again because I’m too darned cheap to go myself. Plus there was that time Customs found the three (!) boxes of Cuban cigars I had strapped to my body when returning from Europe.

Traveling sucks hard now.

In the spirit of comraderie with the 1,945,922,357,812,001 bloggers out there who have already written this same tired story, I present my predictions for today’s WWDC.

iPhone:

  1. The new iPhone will not be called “iPhone 3GS” as Daring Fireball is predicting. It will be called “iPhone Super Terrific Happy Phone,” at least in Japan (Don’t you wish the Japanese named all American products? I’d much prefer buying a “Palm A-number 1 You Bet Phone” than a “Palm Pre”).
  2. The rumored “soul-sucking” feature will be delayed until software revision 4.0, code named “Ol’ Scratch.”
  3. Cameras will be everywhere, one on the front, one on the back, and one on the bottom for the folks at iPorn.
  4. Paycheck deductions will now be available for purchases in the App Store. These won’t be pre-tax deductions, but will come in quite handy when trying to purchase the Slingbox app
  5. Following the death of David Carradine and Apple’s romance with the Chinese, you can expect lots Kung Fu influences: blades popping out of the side so it can be thrown like a star, gyroscopic flip & kick abilities and a new feature called “snap the pebble from my screen.”

Snow Leopard:

  1. It will run faster on the 7% of the computers out there. It won’t run at all on the other 93%.
  2. In a feature that’s similar to musicians teaching you to play guitar or piano on GarageBand, Darren Rowse will be shown in video, teaching you to blog properly. And some effin’ troll from every forum on earth will be watching you, constantly pointing out your spelling and grammar errors.
  3. More gesture controlled actions, making Photoshop COMPLETELY unusable on a Macbook.
  4. A “Spite Mode” that will automatically send out trash talk to your PC-using buddies via IM.
  5. Some other thing, I don’t know. It’s too early to do this.

Well, there you have it. I think I’ve got a good chance of these being true, since my sources include…well, no one.

Feel free to comment with your own predictions, and we’ll see how I did after the announcement.

-J

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10 Things Every Mac Fanboy Hopes To See At WWDC

June 5th, 2009
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Steve JobsIf Steve’s there, I may lose it like a little girl. Hmmm…are there any girls here?

The new iPhoneGreat. Now the iPhone I bought just last month is nothing but crap. What girl would want me with this outdated POS?

Snow LeopardThey should have named it “Catwoman” and dressed it in a leather-clad box.

An iPhone App that will get me girlsNow, Dammit!

Another Fanboy who speaks Klingon Then we can speak in private and the girls won’t know what we’re saying about them!

A girl who recognizes my superiorityThere’s got to be at least one out there!

“Booth Babes”No, wait. That’s E3. All they have here are “Booth Snobs.” Why didn’t I go to E3?

Natali Del ConteOkay, so there are no “Booth Babes.” But maybe Natali will be here. Maybe she’ll think I’m cute. Maybe…crap, it’s Brian Tong!

Amber MacShe’s a Mac gal. She’s cute. She and I could hang. She’s…not here.

Any girl at allPlease God, let me see at least one girl…any girl.

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