I was listening to Buzz Out Loud and MacBreak Weekly last week and they were talking about the new Hide-A-Pod. It turns out to be a gag, but what a great gag it is. The idea is that they gut brown Zunes so they can be used as anti-theft cases for iPods. What a riot! The best line I have read so far in the “Testimonials” is as such:

“And everyone seems to steer clear of what appears to be a feces-stained scientific calculator.”

What a hoot! Its funny, too, because Microsoft has announced today that they have now sold 1.2 million of the pocket bricks, 200,000 more than they projected at this point. Meanwhile, Apple’s market share just keeps climbing and they now tie for 3rd place with Gateway in PC sales behind Dell and HP.

written by Tyler Regas

Falling in line with our corporate mandate, we also offer a mobile version of the site. We can’t yet offer all features and functions of the full site in the handheld iteration, but it does work well. You don’t even have to memorize a different address! Just direct your mobile browser to the site you know and love and we will feed you the correct pages.

written by Tyler Regas

Wow. Universal has reportedly declined to sign a new two year contract with Apple. Instead they are opting to go with a month-to-month and will be offering other services exclusives to some of their artists. Its clear that Universal has seen that they have made a mistake selling on iTMS and see the light shining bright and sparkly over at the Zune camp. Lord knows that Microsoft has been selling dozens of them, after all. With 1% of the market how can Universal go wrong! Having 74% of the market just isn’t enough! Dipwads.

written by Tyler Regas \\ tags: Bad Politics, Laugherating

I’ll start by saying that I think the iPhone is a really, really impressive piece of work. I don’t doubt in the least that it will have a serious impact on the wireless telecom industry… over time. The hype has proven to be true, though only to a degree. Apparently one of Microsoft’s greatest contributions to the world of computing has bled over to Apple: the self-imposed wait for 2.0. From what I’ve seen so far, that’s a fair idea.

The first version of the iPhone offers too few functions for me to knowing dive in and drop $600. I’m a long time Treo user, a Palm OS freak, and a gadget lover in general, and the iPhone doesn’t offer the ability to add software. I’m just not into that. Like my Treo (or really any PDA ever made) I need to be able to make my device function as I need it to, otherwise I can’t warrant that kind of expenditure. I got a Katana from Sprint instead. Free Bluetooth. Ahhh.

I realize that this isn’t something that most people need, though. I drove my daughter over to The Grove yesterday so we could drop in to the Apple Store (and visit the sickening American Girl and Pottery Barn Kids stores) and get our hands on an iPhone. The crowd hovering like Vultures over the iPhone display table was thick and unmoving. We hung around for a bit, listened to the band play, and looked at the fish.

In the end, we left without having touched an iPhone. I’m sure that some of my blase attitude stems from the fact that I’ve not yet touched one. I defend that with the fact that I am a lifetime Apple fan, having had not just Macs, but at least one example of every single one of Apple’s major model lines. My list of Apple machines I’ve not had is far shorter: The Apple ][ GS, any of the Performa machines (what a sad name), a PowerBook 540c (man, I really wanted one of those), and a Mac G5.

I make no apologies, either. Of course, I don’t leap out and buy everything that Apple ships. My only iPod is a 60GB Video. I replaced my 7 year old PowerBook “Pismo” with a MacBook Pro. My daughter uses a PowerMac G4. Yes, my wife uses Windows XP on my old Toshiba lappy, but what can one do against the forces of nature. That makes me wonder. How many first day buyers were Windows users? I’m sure we’ll start getting stats from Apple soon.

I guess the point I’m trying to make is a simple one. Once the iPhone can replace my soon to be retired Treo 650 or my Palm T|X then I’ll switch, and gladly. In the meantime, I’ll stick with Palm, but I do use iSync. When the time comes to switch, I will. You can count on it.

written by Tyler Regas \\ tags: Opinion