Behold the first Apple Store: Apple’s Software Dispatch!
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Awesomeness, History, video
Yeah, we’re feeling mighty nostalgic these days. In response to our retrospective on Apple.com, faithful Macenstein reader noahrobd turned us on to a little piece of Apple corporate goodness in the form of this video Apple made to promote their cutting edge (for 1993, anyway) software distribution system, Software Dispatch.
(iPhone users click here to watch the video)
We can’t tell if the guy in the video is Sam Raimi, Ethan from LOST, or their unholy offspring from Conan O’Brien’s “If They Mated” segment, but the guy is so smooth he could sell ice to Eskimos. In fact, we actually found the number for Software Dispatch and called it, hoping to place an order. Unfortunately the number (which brings you to a company called TeleTech Corporation), has only a message saying the number is no longer in service. Read more
Apple looking for an iPhone Visual Designer
One of the best things about the iPhone is its interface. It’s got those jolly, candy-like buttons, smooth animations, and we could play with the timer feature’s scroll wheels for hours. But even something as perfect as the iPhone will eventually gain some enhancements. So why not be the one who decides what they are? Apple is now looking for an iPhone Visual Designer.
Apple’s Mac OS X User Interface Group is seeking a senior visual designer with dynamic interfaces or animation experience who possesses a passion for great design and shows an exceptional eye for detail. The designer will conceive, design and develop future enhancements to Aqua, the dynamic user interface for Mac OS X. We’re looking for a visually articulate designer capable of communicating their ideas through compelling high-fidelity illustrations and prototypes.
Job Description: Responsibilities include conceiving, developing and prototyping new interactions for various components of Mac OS X, working with engineering and marketing to finalize designs, documenting solutions and monitoring their implementation. Experience in shipping commercial software and understanding the constraints of the software development environment is a plus. Must be a team player with excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
Required Experience:
• B.S./M.S. in Interactive Media Design, Graphic Design, Animation or related field. *2+ years of experience in software visual design
• Demonstrable understanding of user interface design principles.
• Must have demonstrated fluency with Photoshop, Illustrator or other design tools.
• Must have demonstrated experience with prototyping tools and environments such as Director and Lingo.
• Experience with other tools such as 3D Modeling applications are preferred
Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Chris for the tip!
If you can sit, you can get fit… The Hawaii Chair!
Filed under: Awesomeness, Not Mac - But Cool, Slow News Day, That's Weird..., video
OK, this is not Mac related, and I know you guys frown on videos, but if you don’t at least crack a smile watching this, you have no soul.
(iPhone users click here to watch the video)
Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Kelly (who begged us not to post it) for the link!
Show OS X you hate it with “Teh Icons”
Adobe’s icon set for its CS3 suite is arguably the worst ever. (Well, really, there is no argument, but some people apparently blindly defend Adobe the way most of us blindly defend Apple). If you happen to be one of those Adobe lovers that thinks the simplicity of their faux periodic table of elements icons set (which in reality wasn’t meant to mimic the periodic table) is somehow conducive to a productive workflow, then take a look at “Teh Icons“. This icon set has an Adobe-esque blocky icon for virtually every application available, from Address Book on down, and the source files are included is you find an app is missing (or want to change the font when Slimbach comes out). At the very least, this confusing icon set will help keep other people from easily screwing with your computer…
Thanks to faithful Macesntein reader TheWarpedOne (who apparently remembers my hatred of the CS3 icons) for the link.
Wake up call: Apple is NOT “losing” $500 million to unlocked iPhones
The TimesOnline’s Jonathan Richards has published a rather sensationalist report entitled “Apple loses out as one iPhone in four is unlocked: More than a million iPhones were unlocked last year, costing Apple as much as $500 million in lost revenue, according to research” . Now, we love sensationalist journalism as much as the next person (in fact, we just recently ran a sensationalist article claiming Steve Jobs “lost” $1 billion), but usually we can see the logic behind the point they were trying to make. That’s not the case here, however.
The crux of Richard’s argument seems to be that despite Apple claiming to have sold 4 million iPhones, AT&T (and Apple’s European iPhone carriers) have only activated just under 3 million of them. By his logic, this means that Apple is losing out on the 27% of iPhones which are presumably being sold unlocked worldwide and used on carriers Apple doesn’t have a revenue sharing agreement with, which would total about $500 million if they were being used on Apple’s carriers.
While the 1 million unlocked iPhones figure is likely correct, the idea that Apple is losing anything is not. First of all, Read more
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