From How Wired.com Tracked the iPhone Finder:
In response to Wired.com’s scoop identifying the finder of the lost iPhone prototype, many have asked me how we did it. The process of uncovering digital footprints to identify Brian Hogan was indeed challenging and enlightening, so I thought I’d tell the story here. Heck, it might even teach police officers a thing or two so they don’t have to kick down doors.
Wired certainly deserves some credit for breaking the story. Initiative in this day and age of blogs usually get you the good kind of attention. However, it doesn’t give you free license to be a jackass and make smarmy comments that make no sense.
The facts are that:
- The police were able to search Jason Chen’s home because what they did can be considered illegal unto itself.
- There is no data to suggest that the police seized his drives to find the iPhone finder.
- Breaking the door down is completely justified because no one answered the door. Why? Because otherwise every two-bit cyber thug would simply ignore the police knocking on the door, delete all their data, and then let in the police. At which point, the police would be criticized and called inept for not breaking down the door. You’re naive if you believe otherwise.
Wired, kudos on your exclusive and please tone back the glib.
If you were confused about whether Apple was still committed to the Mac, their lack of Apple Design Awards for anything Mac pretty much says it all.
The Apple Design Awards 2010 recognize iPhone OS applications that demonstrate technical excellence, innovation, technology adoption, and quality.
Dear Apple,
If you’re going to publish calendars for your iCal users and advertise them, keep them up to date. A movie release calendar that ends late October of last year is useless.
Your pal,
Derik
Back in December, I made some predictions.
The quick recap is, I was completely right about the Powerbook (though I didn’t see the moronic name change coming). I didn’t see the iMac coming. The Mac mini rumor was nice, but ultimately, it wasn’t in the cards. My hope clouded my judgment.
iLife ’06 and iWork ’06: Yawn. Again.
I’m surprised at the complete lack of information about Leopard. The prospect of getting surprised is actually exciting. Apple may just sit on the features until after Vista appears. That might slow Microsoft just a bit.
Tags: macworld, puppy
Macworld’s lab tests of the new intel iMac confirm what I’ve been telling people since the Intel transition was announced.
I can summarize the results pretty quickly. Considering that the Intel processor in the new iMac is a dual core, the speed isn’t really that much better. In fact, taking that into account, it’s slower. Also, Rosetta isn’t the panacea that everyone bought into. I knew it wouldn’t be. It doesn’t work with anything that requires precise timing and it’s slow. Slow.
This shouldn’t be surprising, but considering what all the pundits said, you’d think it would be. I don’t think that the Intel transition will break Apple, but let’s not pretend it’s all candy and roses. It ain’t.
Tags: imac, intel, rosetta
