二十二個國家加入第二波預購iPhone 4S

  蘋果今天宣佈二十二個國家加入預購iPhone 4S，其中亞州含新加坡。
  二十二個國家是Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland。奧地力、比利時、捷克、丹麥、愛沙尼亞、芬蘭、匈牙利、愛爾蘭、義大利、拉脫維亞、列支敦斯登、立陶宛、盧森堡、墨西哥、荷蘭、挪威、新加坡、斯洛伐克、斯洛維尼亞、西班牙、瑞典、瑞士。

  大部分Apple線上預購，一至兩星期可出貨。
  蘋果先前也已預告今年年底前，第三波70多個國家將加入。

三星手機在台灣打敗宏達電：“韓流”在台大獲全勝

 
  老人說台灣像是韓國屬地，“韓流”在台滿山滿地，你還會懷疑麼：

  根據台灣的市調機構，9月全台灣，三星的Android手機Galaxy SII銷售打敗台灣之光，宏達電HTC的手機HTC Sensation！台灣的手機出貨量，五月以來三星已連莊5個月第一名！

  在台灣，宏達電手機的敵人是誰，不是蘋果，而是台灣民眾！！！
  台灣的“雙低”（雙D，DRAM和LCD），將來如加上宏達電，就變為“三低”了！

一開口就知有沒有：成大校長的大笑話

  根據各大報，成大在10月20日昨天舉辦領袖論壇會議，主題是“從消費看台灣”。
  成大偉大的校長說道：
“蘋果創辦人賈伯斯對世界的環保沒有實質的貢獻，生產一批又一批的iPhone、iPad，每三到六個月就要更換新的機種，這只是在浪費地球的資源，如果要對地球有貢獻，應該發明一款手機，讓大家一輩子都不需要更換。”

  這位偉大的校長黃煌輝，真是一語輝煌，偉大！
  不要說3到6個月，每隔一、兩個月就有新手機，指的不外乎是：Nokia、宏達電、三星、等。依他的定義，蘋果是全世界最環保的智慧型手機廠，因為新手機更新最慢！！！如果連消費都搞不清楚，如何辦領袖論壇？
  領袖，台灣的希望......？
  黃校長的大論，說明了台灣目前的問題：沒人懂蘋果，不懂的卻又喜歡發表大論！至於這些專家、領袖們，懂不懂“消費”，也就可想而知了~！

Siri電視廣告

  蘋果Siri的電視廣告：“This is my first!”

十歲女兒存零用錢造訪蘋果店的故事

  “The Consumerist”的讀者Matt，鋪了一個他十歲女兒存了9個月零用錢和生日獎金，去造訪蘋果店，想買iPod touch的故事。不幸，她光顧時間剛好碰到蘋果店關門哀弔Steve Jobs的時間.........故事，很動人：
“My daughter has been saving her birthday money and allowance for almost 9 months now so that she could afford an iPod touch with a camera in it.
As of this morning, she had saved the amount needed and headed to the Apple Store in Utah with my wife. They arrived at 10:30am, not realizing that the store would be closed from 11am to 2pm today. As they approached the store, two friendly Apple employees greeted them and said that they were sorry, but they were closed.
My wife pointed to my daughter who had a mason jar full of cash in her arms and explained why they were there and also pointed out that is was not quite 11am yet. They again said they were sorry, but could not let them in. My wife and daughter were sad, but understood and made their way to another store in the mall.
About three stores down, an Apple employee raced after them and explained that the manager was going to make an exception and let them in. When they were let in the store, they were the only customers in the place and every one of the employees stopped what they were doing as my daughter approached the register.
As she took all of the cash out of the mason jar, one employee stepped forward and said, "I don't mean to bother you, but I have to tell you that this made my day."
After the transaction had been made and my daughter and wife were on their way out, the store manager raised his voice and said to all of the employees, "Everyone, please give [redacted] a round of applause for saving her money and buying an iPod today."
My daughter was caught a little off guard by all of the attention and waved goodbye, then called me with the story.
Nice work Apple!
-Matt”
 中文請見japp。

Steve Jobs的“Think Different.”最大錯誤：延遲開刀時機

  “Whipple operation”開刀是一般外科裡最大的手術，有時還要開半天。基本上它就是胰臟和十二指腸切除術，切除後當然需重新組合腸道內臟，算是很大且危險的手術。開刀前外科醫生因為怕一但手術併發症，會拿一大本手術同意書讓患者看，並簽同意書。光看手術同意書就常常把病患給嚇壞（切除：胰臟、十二指腸、上端空腸、部分胃、膽囊、總膽道。切除後再重組）！可惜的是這是唯一可治癒胰臟癌的方式！
  2003年10月Steve Jobs被診斷有少見的胰臟島細胞神經內分泌癌症 (islet cell neuroendocrine tumor)，見老人當個醫師把脈Steve Jobs的毛病：身體篇，2004年8月1 日他接受手術。這期間有9個月的延遲！以現在來看那是個錯誤的延遲！雖然時光無法轉回，也沒法肯定當時他接受開刀就可ㄧ勞永愈。
   2009年4月因為胰臟癌肝轉移，Steve Jobs到移植中心接受肝移植 (Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute, Memphis, Tennessee)。這是更大的手術。
  2011年十月5日“鋼鐵人”Steve Jobs還是無法戰勝癌症，死於呼吸衰竭。(見Iron Man 鋼鐵人就是 Steve Jobs、鋼鐵人和機器人的戰爭)
  Steve Jobs自傳，由著名的時代雜誌傳記作家Water Isaacson撰寫，見Steve Jobs自傳在2012年出版: iSteve: The Book of Jobs。原定於2012年出版，但Steve過世後已提前，三天後10月24日將出版，書名也改了簡單的“Steve Jobs”。作家Water Isaacson昨天在哥倫比亞廣播公司（CBS）節目60分鐘先接受訪問，提到Steve Jobs在那延遲的九個月當中接受非傳統醫療，後來他很後悔！

  老人也認為這可能是 Steve Jobs的“Think Different.”唯一最大錯誤：延遲開刀時機！
   看來我們有病還是交給醫師來定奪。（當然了，前提是可信賴的醫師！！！---有名氣、主任、教授、名醫、都不等於“可信賴”！切記！切記！切記！切記！切記！切記！切記！切記！切記！切記！切記！切記！切記！切記！切記！切記！切記！切記！）