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OK, maybe not humanity so much as phonemanity. Or something. Our iPhone competition -- whereby you can win one of two unlocked iPhones and an Altec Lansing speaker system and dock -- closes tomorrow afternoon at 5pm AEST, and more entries are as we speak being uploaded to our channel on YouTube. Some of them are brilliant, some are hilarious, and some are deeply disturbing. Have a look and see what you think.
If you think you can do better and you haven't entered yet, hurry up!
If you recall, the competition involves demonstrating how much you want an iPhone by proving how much you despise your old phone, and you demonstrate that by destroying your old phone in the most heinous way imaginable. The winner is judged on creativity and skill.
We've had phones getting crushed, sawn in half, minced, shot, dropped from great heights, baked, blown up in rockets and smashed with bats -- and more. It's good to see such creativity and enthusiasm, but remind me never to get on the wrong side of you folks.
I've had nightmares about lawnmowers.
Anyway, we'll be announcing the winner next week when we've had a chance to review all entries and let the horror soak in. Thanks to all who have entered so far, and if you haven't yet, get a wriggle on.
wrote on August 20, 2008 3:58 PM
I'm glad you're announcing the winners this week, considering the published date for closing entries was 13th Aug - a week ago, do you think you'll be adding more any entries? Some of the newest entries were on Youtube.com before the comp started??? but now they've been 'pulled' and entered into your comp exclusively?
"Don't forget to get there very, very early", was the advice given to me by practically everyone prior to this morning's Macworld Conference Keynote. "Things get pretty hairy", they claimed -- and they weren't referencing Australian Macworld's fine editor. So at 5am, having been woken by the loud gentleman speaking German VERY LOUDLY, I prepared towander down the chilly streets of San Francisco and wait. And wait, and wait, and wait. Annoyance doesn't quite cover my mood when another Australian journalist makes an appearance two hours later, right behind me.
Alex Kidman | Jan 17, 2008
Former Apple CEO Gilbert Amelio once famously remarked that "I thought I was leading a company; I didn't realise I was leading a cult". If he thought that job was difficult, imagine what it must be like for Steve Jobs. Where Amelio was leader of the cult, Jobs is the object of its worship. Think of it as the difference between being the Pope and being the Messiah — I know which I'd take. Name another CEO, company founder or Chairman who is expected — indeed, required — to change the world on at minimum an annual basis. Michael Dell? Bill Gates? Steve Ballmer? Rupert Murdoch? Robert Iger? Samuel Palmisano? Does anyone even know who he is? All of these people have great responsibilities and a duty to shareholders to drive their companies. Jobs's burden is different. He is expected somehow to be a few steps ahead of the world, living in the no-too-distant future, bringing tomorrow to us today. Which is not to suggest he is the only person in the computer industry expected to innovate. Google, Amazon, eBay ... any number of companies innovate and do so successfully, What's different for Apple and its CEO is the expectation that it can happen on demand. If anyone but Apple had released a product as successful and groundbreaking as the iPhone last year they'd still be dining out on it. Apple is already copping criticism for not having a 3G version out yet. Compare it to, for instance, Paul McCartney. Some decades ago McCartney wrote some pretty darned good music. Now he's in his 60s and puts out the occasional listenable bit of work. It's not amazing, but it's pretty good and leaves most contemporary "music" for dead. But because it isn't as good as the Beatles it may as well be rubbish. No-one else has to be compared with the Beatles.
Matthew JC. Powell | Feb 13, 2008
One of the challenges Mac users face is trying to sync their mobile devices with their Mac. In a recent forum post, I asked readers for some input to an upcoming column on smartphones. Due to the space constraints of the print version of Australian Macworld I won't be able to cover sync solutions in that feature so I thought I'd pull them together in this post. I'll take a browse through the world of sync solutions for the Mac and cover Mobile Phones, Windows Mobile, Palm, BlackBerry and the rest.
Anthony Caruana | Feb 24, 2008
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, speaking in Sydney this morning, said the MacBook Air won’t be a hit (even though he likes it), AppleTV shows the future for digital entertainment (but really frustrates him anyway), and the 2G iPhone was a disappointment to him because of its sluggish internet speed.
Dan Warne | Mar 3, 2008
