The Apple Product Cycle

It's soooo painfully true.

An obscure component manufacturer somewhere in the Pacific Rim announces a major order for some bleeding-edge piece of technology that could conceivably become part of an expensive, digital-lifestyle-enhancing nerd toy.....

12:10:11 PM    

Someone's gonna be the 10,000th visitor this week!

If you are, and you can provide me with a screenshot (see the little blue number under the list of referring pages in my sidebar), I'll send you a free Laptop Bob mug.

11:43:33 AM     leave/read comments []

Aussie copyright criminalises iPod. Australian copyright law -- recently "improved" through a copyright treaty that the US shoved down its throat -- is so unbelievably out-of-step with reality that it criminalises moving music from your CDs to your iPod.

Anyone who has copied songs from a CD onto an iPod or computer hard drive has fallen foul of Australian copyright laws, which critics argue are failing to keep pace with technological change. Copying music for personal use is generally OK in the US and Europe. But not in Australia.

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(Thanks, Russell!) [Boing Boing]

11:34:10 AM