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I just can’t understand how anybody in his right mind could believe a fraction of second this is for real!

I’m disgusted. The head of Steve (when he was sick a few years ago) has been added to the body of an 90 years old! That’s all!

You can’t patent “Coca”, you can’t patent “Cola” but you CAN patent “Coca Cola”.

We knew it was for before year’s end but it came much before: Apple (AAPL) has surpassed Microsoft (MSFT) on the Nasdaq in market value and is now the most valued technology company in the world.

We knew of course that Apple was the word leader but now it’s evident for everybody.

Some will say that now Apple is “evil” but probably the same ones didn’t find anything wrong with the fact that Microsoft more than once (!) used his supremacy in evil ways… Or if they did it was because they think that power absolutely corrupts, forgetting that Microsoft was corrupted since the very beginning.

To the contrary Apple will prove that they can lead and still innovate.

The goal of Steve Jobs will stay the same: provide all of us with the best tools to change the world!

Next step: Exxon! And complete world “domination”. It will be soon since this occurs just at the beginning of the iPad sales.

What you will find soon on MiCMAC…

Of course you will continue to find articles about Apple and its strategy and history.

The next one being about what actually happens between “lazy” Adobe and Steve Jobs and you will learn that the “laziness” of Adobe is not that recent and why Steve Jobs has probably more than enough of them…

There will be also “hands on” articles showing the best solutions to audio, video or system problems.

First will come an article about the best ways to add subtitles to movies in iTunes, appleTV, etc.

Next, an article on making a much better keyboard layout than the french one (execrably implemented by the way!). This article will be written in French since it’s dedicated to people using the physical french keyboard and there will be a way to download the resulting .keylayout file.
But if there is interest amongst English readers I could also write an article about modifying the english keyboard layout as well since some options are not very logically chosen…

Cy Starkman is right on the spot in a comment of RoughlyDrafted Magazine:

“Even MacBooks et al have the camera placed wrong. You either look at the camera or the person, ultimately everyone looks at the person and appears to be looking down.

It’s useless. Camera phones included. If anything else this is why it hasn’t taken off.

I personally never used the camera on any Mac even though I bought iGlasses for it, except for a brief test.
I don’t like to feel stupid and look at people looking stupid! And that’s what you get when you use these cameras with that wrong angle…
And I guess most people are like me on this. It will take off only when it will be done right!

Frame 16976 of the latest Apple podcast

John Gruber asks in his latest contribution “Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?”

The answer is easy: somebody just needs to write a little app for the iPad and the iPhone just like the wonderful ClickToFlash.

This time when you click, there’s no way to make Flash happen of course, but it just sends a message to the webmaster of the site, saying “please go for open web technologies” with some helpful URLs directing him to the specifications of HTML5 and also some examples of what can be done!

Nobody else can do something better about those blue boxes on the iPad. Nobody else either can do anything for Flash. The beast is dying!

Flasher, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

It’s not for the rest of us.
But of course we will be more than happy to use it as well.
That means it’s the computer for everybody, the computer that everybody will want!

When Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh in 1984, it was marketed as the computer for “the rest of us”.
Thats was supposed to be the people not willing to use a command line interface. Some, because they were tired of it, as they had to use it against their will (and because there was nothing else). Some, because they didn’t want to learn these boring interfaces.

It was sure fun and easy to use for some of us. But even in the ’80s, I’ve always been aware that most Mac users were using no more than 10% of the capacities of their computer and had difficulties understanding and remembering the relation between menus and keyboard shortcuts, how the file system was workin’, this and many other things.

I would like to make some clarifications, beyond the marketing gimmicks and the bad habits.

There are a lot of things said about the system that the “Tablet” is supposed to run.
The last one being that it’s running a variant of the iPhone OS. The people thinking that way are not thinking “different”, they are thinking “wrong”.

There is no “iPhone OS”!

But there is OS X for iPhone, OS X for iPod touch, OS X for Mac. There will soon be OS X for the “Tablet” (whatever it’s name will be – iBook would be OK for me).