It’s a Mac Life

Sure there’s a new giant all aluminum iMac stretching a grand 27”, with faster hardware and standard wireless mouse and keyboard, but the most exciting item in Apple’s new hardware line-up is the Apple Magic Mouse. As a graphic designer I have long had a love/hate relationship with Apple mice. The one button mouse was lovely and pure, but completely inadequate in a professional work environment. The Apple Mighty Mouse offered some improvement in terms of basic functionality, namely functions that had already existed on other mice for many years. Having used the Mighty Mouse intensely in a professional work environment for well over a year, I have to say it is adequate. Not amazing, just adequate.

So will Apple’s new multi-touch Magic Mouse deliver the magic? It goes a long way to offer new multi-touch gestures more familiar to apple’s large laptop trackpads. Will it offer basic ergonomic comfort and reliable, accurate tracking? Only the absence of pain in your wrist after a few months use will tell.

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Less then a year ago I bought the first iPhone officially available in Canada, on the very first day it was available. It was the first phone hailed as revolutionary. “Update the software, not the hardware!” they said. Revolutionary!

In less than a year Apple has indeed updated the iPhone OS, and is about to update it yet again, offering many new and long awaited features. Features like video recording and voice dial. Features that have been available on most phones for years. Features that early iPhone adopters trusted would come down the pipe from the big silver apple eventually, if they just had faith.

But wait! What’s this? Some of those long awaited and most useful and desired features are not available to existing iPhone 3G owners? They only work on the new speed bumped issue of the iPhone called the iPhone 3GS. Wtf Apple?

To make that bite of apple even more sour, there is no way to upgrade to the new hardware, short of ditching your old phone and paying an enormous fee to your current carrier for a new model. So not only did we falsely buy into the idea of upgrading the software and NOT the hardware, we’re left with no feasible way to upgrade the hardware either.

I’ve never, ever, ever dreamed of saying this before, Apple (love you dearly), but on this latest move you @#$%ing suck!!