“Who hasn’t fantasized about a house that makes day-to-day life easier? Certainly the trendy guy on the Apple commercials looks more relaxed — and like he’s having a lot more fun — than his frumpy, brown-suited, PC counterpart. Perhaps it’s because Mac Dude’s house is full of gadgets that streamline a busy urbanite’s hectic schedule,” Kimberly Hill writes for MacNewsWorld. “Maybe he lives in a house something like this one…”
MacDailyNews Note: The “Mac Dude,” Justin Long, is playing a Macintosh personal computer, not a Mac user. He’s “more relaxed” because of his OS. That said, let’s play along…
“As in many homes today, the centerpiece of Mac Dude’s living room is a huge, wall-mounted, high-definition TV. The brand and technology (plasma, LCD) matter less than the size. Fifty inches is a minimum. Compared to this, the small, white Apple TV unit sitting on the shelf below barely is noticeable,” Hill writes.
“Through that little box, though, stream movies, TV shows, and video podcasts to the big screen, all from iTunes,” Hill writes. “When the host and his guests don’t care to watch the glowing screen, they still can listen to audio podcasts and, of course, music through the audio speakers scattered through the house and linked into the home theater system via WiFi . They control all this through the Remote app for iPhone, which also transmits over the house’s wireless network. Who wants to carry two clickers around?”
Mac Dude never feels disconnected, because his iPhone has both 3G and WiFi capabilities. He uses the Easy WiFi iPhone app made by Devicescape to find and join publicly accessible networks along his route. He’s an AT&T wireless subscriber (not one of those who’s hacked his iPhone to work on another wireless carrier), so he knows that at the very least, he’ll be able to get online at most Starbucks locations,” Hill writes.
More in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Carl H.” for the heads up.]
It’s like she was right here in my living room and she forgot to mention my turntable…
Sounds great, but has he ever squirted a song to a friend? …or pushed virtual bubbles to his drinking buddies on a Surface computer? Mac Dude is really missing-out.
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I AM that “Dude”! It is true, it is all true!!!
Wow, I only skimmed the first paragraph of each section and I still fell asleep half way through.
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Sounds like the old Windoze people are finally starting to dream of a better life now that they’re starting to come out of the oppression of their former lives. They can now see that there is something else out there. Something better. A bright light.
Stuff we mac heads have been asking for and putting together for years..
Why is it that so many people still don’t get the “I’m a Mac” commercials? For crying out loud, there was that one where “PC” reboots due to problems. There was that other one where he’s all bandaged up because a kid tripped over his power cord and dragged him off the table. And yet you still get clueless morons talking about the “PC user” played by John Hodgeman.
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The brand of flat screen TV matters A LOT.
Lost your redibility right there, buddy.
“He uses the Easy WiFi iPhone app made by Devicescape to find and join publicly accessible networks along his route.”
Doesn’t the iPhone automatically switch from open network to open network choosing the best signal?
How is this app needed?
@ Cubert,
The iPhone does NOT automatically switch from open network to open network choosing the best signal. It will give you a list of available WiFi networks if you attempt to use the internet within range of open networks, but you must manually choose the network to join. The app by Devicescape is more so made to login into an AT&T;WiFi network without opening the browser, being brought to the AT&T;WiFi login page, entering your information, and agreeing to the terms and conditions, then getting logged out and needing to repeat the process if you clear the Safari cache, cookies, and history. The Devicescape app has you enter your AT&T;information upon installation, it stores it, and logs you in when you are in range of an AT&T;WiFi Hotspot. That’s the reason the app is needed, and it ROCKS. 😎
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