Comments on: Macworld 09 Infamy Awards

By: iDVD hung out to dry as Apple pushes movies online — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:06:22 +0000

[...] chief Phil Schiller took the wraps off iLife ‘09. Even the iLife banners at the event excluded any mention of the product (below). Since then, Apple has issued two press releases on iLife ‘09, and in [...]

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Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:09:13 +0000

[...] finally, an Imfamy Award, from RoughlyDrafted Magazine, for plastering the DeLorean with logos and hand-outs! Hey, any press is good press, [...]

By: timmyd

timmyd — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:23:45 +0000

I was the guy giving the “obviously faked demo” of the astronomy software. While Voyager can drive a telescope to point at anything in the sky, it clearly can’t show you what’s it’s looking at if the scope is inside a covered building – and I never made any claim that it could. In fact, if you’d paid any attention at all to the demo, you would have known that the view of Saturn on the monitor was a simulated view – no telescope on Earth can show Saturn from above that planet’s north pole. You’re not doing yourself any service here by exposing your ignorance. Next time be more careful who you slag.

[Sorry Tim, that was intended to be an obvious joke. - Dan]

By: Planeten Paultje

Planeten Paultje — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:08:46 +0000

The astronomy program is Voyager from Carina Software. A most excellent application that can indeed drive your telescope:
http://www.carinasoft.com/products/voyager/index.html

By: OlsonBW

OlsonBW — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:07:42 +0000

I agree with JohnFromVermont. They, especially the boy on the left, did a lot better job of interviewing Woz than quite a few different interviews that I have seen with professional interviewers. Also, that’s the first interview I’ve aware of with questions about his watch.

By: JohnFromVermont

JohnFromVermont — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:57:15 +0000

Hey Daniel – Those teenage reporters were there for more than the pineapple juice! They are from the Santa Barbara Middle School Teen Press. SBMS is a private school in California that has an amazing set of student reporters. They do a lot of research before they head out to interview people. During the election cycle, they interviewed many of the candidates and asked the hard questions that a lot of other press folks ignored.

They did a pretty good job of covering Mac World as well, and even scored an interview with Woz.

Check them out here:

http://sbmsteenpress.org/

By: mikeg

mikeg — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:59:52 +0000

Excellent article as usual, Daniel. I am going to Pre`-order my iPhone God with all of the extra godstruments.

By: jakeb

jakeb — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:08:07 +0000

I think “Pre” is supposed to stand for “Pre-iPhone”, since if it really had been I’ve no doubt it really would have sold pretty well . . . .

By: daGUY

daGUY — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:22:04 +0000

One more thing to add for iDVD – Apple’s own site simply refers to it as “iDVD” without the ‘09 suffix. Maybe they’re phasing it out to replace it with iBlu-ray in iLife ‘10? Haha.

By: benlewis

benlewis — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:21:36 +0000

Hilarious! The best review of Macworld anywhere! I always thought of “See Where It Takes You” as a kind of sinister veiled threat, btw. In that context, it always made sense to me…