A rather amazing Leopard Launch !
Coincidence
A word I do not use too often, but I certainly can use it tonight writing this!
You know those times when you think, blimey, that is a bit spooky? Well, it was also one of those moments! I had gone to the Sheffield Apple Store (UK) for the Leopard Launch and got there way too early (me being keen and excited I guess). Anyway, I had a go on Leopard, as it was already installed on the machines in the store, and it looked and felt great. After a quick coffee and some food I settled down to wait outside the store and luckily enough, I was the first to start queuing. As promised, the store shut at 4pm and some barriers were put outside and a few more people turned up, including Nick and Joey, local students. At this point, everything seemed very normal.
Meeting people is all part of the fun
So, Nick, Joey and I chatted, the queue got a little bigger, and I started using the iPod Touch…… Earlier in the morning, I had been reading my feeds via Google Reader and had picked up on a great story about a student, called Nick Haley, who had created an iPod Touch advert. He had made the advert, uploaded it to YouTube at the beginning of September and it had received some very positive comments. Out of the blue, he had then been contacted by Apple’s ad agency saying they wanted to speak to him about using his clip for the actual advert for the iPod Touch! How cool is that! (it is actually being used and has its first showing on tomorrow). I watched the video on YouTube and also read the article which had appeared on the New York Times website. I had thought, what a superb story, tagged it in Reader and thought no more of it.
You are kidding me, right?!
Thought no more of it until I was using the Touch and mentioned the advert to Nick (alarm bells started ringing yet?!) and Joey. I said how cool it was and had they seen it? It was at this point that Nick smiled, and I asked what was so funny? It was at this point I remembered the article saying it was a guy called Nick from Leeds and I started thinking, surely not ……. I asked if he knew anything about this advert and he proceeded to show me the clip on the iPodTouch via YouTube, and lo and behold, it was posted by a guy called Nick Haley (major alarm bells going off now) and he explained that he was indeed, THE Nick Haley! You can see why I started this post with the word coincidence! Like Whoa! Amazing! These things never seem to happen to me, which is why I was so amazed and really made the whole launch experience even better! Nick was a great guy, extremely humble, could not say too much due to NDAs and a real pleasure to chat with. Here is the man himself outside the Sheffield Apple Store 
I really hope he makes a career of this kind of thing, and I am sure we will be seeing a lot more of him in the future. So, a great experience, and after all that it was also brilliant to go through the doors, snag my Leopard T shirt and actually buy a copy of the nest OS out there! I’ve installed it on the MBP (all good) and am will sort out the MacPro when something arrives next week – tune back in then for my super-duper install strategy!
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Coincidence indeed! That’s quite a coup to actually bump into him.
It’s a great ad, and I hope Apple paid him tons of money for using it. It’s not like they’re strapped for cash these days!
Lol! Strapped for cash? Apple? Nope!
He was under an NDA so could not tell me much but I am sure he will be looked after!
ohhh that’s amazing!! and the story of this boy is even more!!
great day!!
i wish i could change my pc for a mac!! but macs are sooooooooo over the price here… it’s a shame!
Hey Ana!
It was a great day! Whereabouts in the world are you!?
Thanks for your kind comments
Cheers!
Jon
=) hi jon!! I’m from México!! ieiii!!! LOL…
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Recently (i think 1 week ago) opened the first Mac Store in México, and 6 months ago I wanted to purchase a computer but the “cheapest” Mac was about 2800 dlls!… =( soooo.. I bought a !#$%#$ PC
I’m not a designer or something like that (I studied finances, in fact), but I loooove photoshop and illustrator…
But in these days i’m going to buy an iPod Touch (I’m sure i’m going to feel less frustrated with myself for not having a macintosh LOL), I’m so excited!!
(sorry if my english is not understandable :S)
Mexico! WOW! Great to see you reading my humble blog from the other side of the world
You will love an iPod Touch, I got one just before the iPhone came out in the Uk as I loved the UI so much. I’ve got the iPhone now, and love it – totally reshapes the mobile market place…
Your English is superb, so please don’t worry!
=) I will let you know when i get the iPod … hahaha
And about the iPhone… well, i think maybe in 6 months it will be available in México LMAO… but I don’t have real interest in this (yet) because my actual phone is ok for “my needs” and the technology in my country is not like the Japanese or European one… even with the iPod im not going to be able to use the iTunes Music Store =(
Well… i’ll keep coming back for news …
sorry… one question.. can you access all websites you want in the ipod touch?
I want to know this because I read somewhere that only is possible to access into “special” websites, with the correct resolution for the ipod… maybe I misunderstood this, but i really want to know… thank youuuu!
Hey! Yes, you can access any site you want on the iPod Touch – some look normal, and some are optimsed for iPhone or iPod Touch.
Hope that helps!
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
Don’t agree with me? Any chance, just a little help, something to go on, as to what you don’t agree with!??! :-p
I don’t agree either!
Sent from an iPhone.
Ah Mr Mahony, eloquent as usual
Definitely don’t agree with that!