From iPhone to iOS – Apple nabs (another) Cisco handle Steve Jobs has borrowed another iName from Cisco. But this time, he got permission. Today, at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, Jobs announced that the Cupertino cult had renamed the iPhone OS. From here on out, it will be known as, yes, iOS. The mobile operating system, you see, also runs on the iPod …
"Steve Jobs is no match for British broadcasters"?
I don't think so... I'm pretty sure Apple is sitting on enough dosh to be able to buy Britain's ITV outright, and that doesn't take into account Jobs' humungously vast wealth elsewhere (Disney, Pixar, etc).
Personally, given the crap that ITV tends to broadcast, I'd be very glad if it got bought out by Jobs... a bit of Apple's style rubbing off on it would improve it immensely. Mind you, a bit of napalm would improve it as well, so that wouldn't be a hard ask!
I can't wait for Jobs to buy ITV and update the programmes...
"iCorrie" - the cobbels and grim terace houses replaced with cleaming white modernist buildings - the Rovers Return gets converted into an Apple store - "ayePhone!"
"Britain's got iPads" - talent show in which developers have to perform in front of three Steve Jobses in the hope of getting approval for their apps. Contestants wearing turtle necks will obviously fail due to replicating Apple functionality.
"I'm a twitter celebrity, track my location!" - 10 celebs get dumped in Milton Keynes town centre and are forced to survive using nothing but their iPhones and the fantastic array of communication and productivity apps available in the app store. Viewers vote off who they hate by sending @ replies to the celeb they wish to vote off including the hash tag #FAIL.
I don't know thumbed you down (ooh err) but I thought that was a good joke. Imagining what iTea would be like... hmmm...
well you'd be locked in to having exactly the same way Steve drinks his. So if you want to add sugar you're gunna have to jailbreak your teabags (maybe the term 'tea-bagging' will be used for that process!)
Also the tea will be very expensive, but a lot more trendy than the evil PG Tips (who whole stole the idea anyway according to Steve, about 20 or 30 years ago or some s**t no-one cares about any-more).
The packaging will say on it "Designed in California, Grown in China"
Stephen Fry will constantly yabba on about how he loves his iTea and how he was the first person in the UK to ever drink it after Douglas Adams.
Leo Laporte's Twit Network will bring out a podcast about it - "Tea Break Weekly" ? - "This Week About Tea" ???
Some bloke will find a lost teabag on the floor of a pub and go round hawking it to Tea Blogs, bla bla bla you know the rest, Steve gets mad, Police special tea task force raids offices, kettles get confiscated, I get bored and stop making pathetic jokes about an iFuture dystopia.
If you want to call yourself an Engineer go out and get a BEng and then get your qualifications AND experience accredited by the IET or one of the few bodies that CAN award Chartered Engineer status.
If you pass the Microsoft/CISCO/<Insert vendor name> exams for their own software/hardware then you are not an Engineer, you are a Technician.
Engineers design, Technicians operate.
"...the Cupertino cult had renamed the iPhone OS. From here on out, it will be known as, yes, iOS. The mobile operating system, you see, also runs on the iPod touch and the iPad, and as the cult indoctrinates new members, Jobs doesn't want to confuse them."
Yet another unbiased piece of reportage from the scourge of Apple fans ... Caaaaaaade Metz!
Clap. He deserves it.
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