Rémy Numa

So, I got my Wave invitation from Google a couple of days ago, and I’m happy to give away three (I might let out some more later on) tickets of my own.

If you want one, you’re going to have to do some shameless promoting on Twitter. All you need to do to secure your chance of getting in on the Wave-y goodness is send a tweet that mentions @remynuma, and includes the words “Wonderful World of Wave” somewhere. The three most original tweets will be getting invites from yours truly.

You’ve got until Friday December 11th.

While most of the Australian Apple community endlessly gossip and argue over Apple’s much-rumoured Melbourne CBD store as the next to open ‘down under’, it should not be forgotten that Apple is probably exploring other locations too.

In Sydney, the recently released Westfield Bondi Junction ‘Ultimate Gift Guide’ (which, just by the way, is comprehensive but a long way from ultimate) contains numerous references to Apple’s gift-worthy products - and beneath them, lists ‘Apple’ as the retailer.

While it’s only a small hint at a potential Westfield Bondi Junction store, it would, if true, almost certainly become another profitable link in Apple’s retail chain, and one in which I’m very interested to (hopefully) see develop.

A few thoughts:

• Streaming still sucks.
• The ‘Internet’ menu is so misleading to the average user, it’s ridiculous. No, Apple - the real internet doesn’t consist entirely of YouTube and Radio.
• Syncing is better, but this is really more an iTunes 9 feature.
• As soon as you watch something, the radio cuts out - so when you return to the main menu, you have to go back to the internet menu to start playing it again.
• It’s nice to see the system font switch to Helvetica - this is definitely a sign of things to come for Mac OS X 10.7.

Overall, this feels like Apple TV 2.1.

Bought a couple of Magic Mice at the Apple Store today - very smooth, very stylish and very no nipple-y.