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2009 WWDC posters appear at Moscone West
TUAW buddy Adam Jackson has posted pictures he took of a WWDC poster that's currently hanging in the Moscone Center. Bearing the phrase "One year later. Light-years ahead" and several flying app icons, it puts the iPhone front-and-center, as one would expect. Some folks are using Flickr's Notes feature to ID apps they recognize. Feel free to fill in the gaps.We expect Apple to demo and distribute a new, nearly-final build of Snow Leopard to developers, and at least announce a ship date for iPhone OS 3.0. It will be nice if we get a firm release date for Snow Leopard and a preview of new iPhone hardware, but we aren't holding our breath. Stay tuned to TUAW during the show for coverage and reaction to everything from WWDC.
Of course, I wouldn't be a nit-picky jerk if I didn't mention that a year is a measure of time while a light year is a measure of distance. I wonder if the new iPhone will make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.
Thanks Adam!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
stevep said 12:14PM on 6-03-2009
well i think we can assume that distance is being used in the second sentance, since ahead can be used to define distance, ahead would mean a positive vector while behind would be a negative. they're trying to portray that after only 1 year, the distance gap between them and the competition is extremly large
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Shunnabunich said 12:23PM on 6-03-2009
Yeah, I don't see how that doesn't work.
Devon said 12:41PM on 6-03-2009
Yeah, works for me. They've come a great distance from 2.0 to 3.0 in only a year's time.
Gray_hat said 5:09PM on 6-03-2009
I agree. You can say that you are 'miles ahead', so why not light years?
jod said 6:57PM on 6-03-2009
The light is the OLED screen on the new Iphone.
John said 12:29PM on 6-03-2009
And *I* wouldn't be a nit-picky jerk if I didn't point out that a parsec is also a measure of distance (just over 3 light years). But who am I to argue with Han Solo. . . He was, of course, referring to his shaving about 6 parsecs off the Kessel Run route by, well, cheating. Maybe I should have been on Greedo's side all along. . .
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Martin said 12:36PM on 6-03-2009
The comparison of year and light year in that context is correct.
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Jake said 12:40PM on 6-03-2009
Isn't a parsec a unit of distance? - Blue Harvest...
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Dave said 3:31AM on 6-04-2009
Exactly. That's like saying, "Let's see if he can do a 4 mile run, in less than 2 miles."
Jeff said 12:42PM on 6-03-2009
Do you think if I walked across the hall and asked Penny out, that she'd say yes?
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Gazoobee said 12:41PM on 6-03-2009
Just to be even extra-picky ... "several" means more than two and less than "a dozen" or "many." In general use it means "three." Using "several" to describe a field of what looks like hundreds of app icons is not correct.
Also, even though everyone is feeling smart by pointing it out this morning (on this blog and others), there is nothing grammatically or conceptually wrong with the statement "One Year later. Light-Years Ahead."
"Ahead" is an obvious reference to the *distance* out in front of the others that Apple is. The implication is only that they are "ahead of the pack," in a "race," which is a reference to distance not time.
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Jeff said 1:02PM on 6-03-2009
Perhaps they are "ahead" of where they expected to be, meaning they reached a certain number of apps or downloads earlier than they had projected.
In that case, it would be a race against time itself.
MJZimmer88 said 1:09PM on 6-03-2009
Just to point out that youre kindof a douche... you're describing a "few", rather than "several".
Anthony said 12:42PM on 6-03-2009
Because all the app icons means it is totally about the iPhone.
It can obviously be about the iPod touch too, everyone forgets that though.
Or the app store duh.
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Dave said 1:00PM on 6-03-2009
Nope, Epic fail!
Adam said 1:26PM on 6-03-2009
I think the time vs. distance thing is sorta the point, you nit-picky jerk.
;)
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Ryan said 1:00PM on 6-03-2009
Oh geez. You basically invited the internet to discuss proper grammar, this wont end well.
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Robert Palmer said 1:06PM on 6-03-2009
I see what you did there.
iBearTouch said 9:24PM on 6-03-2009
Haven't you notice that Apple has the funnest time when they are tweaking terms, adapting to something more than their "standard" usage? Judging by the amount of discussion this phrase has generated in the TUAW Nerd Pits,, I'd be calling it quite a success.
Swimatm said 1:05PM on 6-03-2009
"One year later. Light-years ahead"
I like Apple, but if there's anything that company needs, it's a humility lesson.
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