[SATLUG] Video Drivers

[Brad Knowles]

On 7/5/07, pixelnate wrote:

>  The same could be said for all the people that waited in line for iPhones.
>  I have used Apple computers for a long time, and I still spend most of my
>  computer time on one (Graphic Artist/Web Designer by trade), but I would
>  never buy a Rev. A Apple product.

The iPhone does have some issues, but you can't call it a 1.0 
product.  There's eight years of iPod experience to build on, and 
many years of OS X experience to also build on.  Very little of this 
device is new in and of itself.

What is revolutionary is the way that Apple was able to put it all 
together in such a small package and with a pretty much instantly 
intuitive user interface, unlike anything else that had ever been 
seen before commercially.


I think a lot of the problems that people are having now will be able 
to be resolved relatively easily and quickly -- Apple didn't want to 
ship anything that could be considered less than fully baked, so they 
preferred to rip out features that weren't quite stable enough than 
to go ahead and ship them and generate the bad press.

They'd rather have bad press about currently nonexistent features 
that can be fixed with a simple software update than bad press about 
poorly implemented features.

-- 
Brad Knowles <brad at shub-internet.org>, Consultant & Author
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