So, we’ve finally got around to formally incorporating ourselves as “TROLLWERKS INC.” for iPhone development initiatives, and we’re celebrating this by evolving the First Ascent trollsheep into a New Exciting 2K8 Brand™ logo. And we want YOUR help with this! Below the cut, we have seven possible design directions: We’d like you to comment which ones you find the most appropriately troll — that is, which of these designs reach out, GRAB you by the throat, and HEADBUTT you? Ch-ch-check ‘em out:
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13
May
iObama!
OK, whilst we intend to generally refrain from commenting on the non-iPhone-development related doings of our much-beloved neighbours to the south, we figure this is tangentially related enough to deserve mention: Apparently this “Obama” fellow, whom we gather is running for some political position or other down there, is an iPhone user! Check out just after 1:10 in this clip and see him pull what is clearly an iPhone out of his pocket.
Not that we would presume to push our opinions upon anybody, of course, but if you’re an American voter and don’t have any strong feelings yet on whom you want for whatever job this “Obama” chap wants to do, we think that clearly the candidates’ choice of Apple product should be a consideration of the utmost gravitas, don’t you? Certainly, there’s nothing we’ll give more weight to next time there’s a Canadian election!
h/t: FSJ!
It was way back in February that we found out the precise location of the upcoming Vancouver Apple Store — just five blocks down the road from Troll World Headquarters™, which is pretty much as convenient as we could ask for with a straight face, no less — and a bit later on we had some in-mall bulkhead shots to confirm it indisputably. But today, from the wonderfully named VistaSucks.WordPress.com, we have an alleged spy shot of the inside, and to go along with that, a report that
I personally spoke to 4 different on-site workers each of which confirmed the store should be completed “Next month.”
Oooh, it’s like having Christmas in June!
h/t: macsupport.ca!
07
May
Web Future: Flash Wars!
If you’re at all interested in the future of the interactive Web, you’ve probably heard of Adobe’s Open Screen Project to put Flash everywhere, which we’ll stake out our Official Position™ on in this post. But before that, here’s what we would say qualifies as a Do Not Miss series to read — since it pretty much follows our line of thought, just in exhaustive and well-written detail – Flash Wars at AppleInsider. There’s three parts to it: Continue reading ‘Web Future: Flash Wars!’
Now here’s something I hadn’t heard yet: Apple’s about to have a new big enterprise shop to add to its evangelism of the value of switching from Windows — no less than the 4000-odd employees of
The proverbial Impeccable Source™ tells me
Salesforce.com is giving Macs to all employees. Yup, all 4000 of us; we are going to be one of the largest enterprise software Mac shops around. As the leases come up for the Dells, IT is replacing with Macs.
And why, you ask, Security! The resources it takes to defend against all the stuff the baddies throw at a PC, it’s just cheaper/easier to pay a few bucks more for a Mac and not have any of those issues.
With the Google Apps integration, and moving to the Mac, we will be free of the clutches of the Redmond Beast!
You really couldn’t ask for a much better endorsement of your value to the forward-looking enterprise than being officially adopted by Salesforce.com, could you now?
