Where are you from and where do you live currently?

I’m a Dallas native

Tell us about your family. Who all you have in your family and their thoughts on this Apple madness of yours?

I have a rather large family so it’s hard to slim this down to a short answer. I’m the only child between my parents biological parents, but have 8 step siblings, 4 nieces and 1 nephew. Since I’m the only one that likes Apple, they were unsure about my famous campouts first, but grown to get used to it.

What is your regular day job other than waiting for an Apple product launch?

Due to the large publicity and for privacy concerns I can not name who or what I do for a living. The only thing I can tell you is that my career experience is in non-profit organizations.

Which phone do you use right now and tell us about the other phones that you have used in the past?

I currently have a iPhone 4 and have owned all iPhone models over the years. All of which I camped out for expect for the original.

What other apple gadgets do you use?

I currently have a iMac 21″ at home that I use for home and work task purposes. I also have owned previously iPods, a white MacBook, and a MacBook Pro.

Since when have you been lining up to be the first to grab an Apple product?

Since 2008 for the iPhone 3G. Been the first one in line every year since then.

What made you do it on the first place and what was the reason that you continued the second time? Tell us about your experience.

Once I started doing this, it wasn’t exactly my goal to just get there first and make full publicity It started by accident when I lined up the first time for the iPhone 3G overnight. Then the second year when I was first again for the iPhone 3GS, I thought “Hmm, it’ll be interesting to see if I can keep this record going.” Then when I camped for the third time for the iPhone 4 last year, thats when I ended up becoming a big hit, because I did it 8 days advanced. Since then, the first in line trend has continued. This year I lined up 5 days in advance.

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Best Buy on the other hand hasn’t declined the rumor though the retailer hasn’t yet confirmed the same. Best Buy has been working on the connected world notion and trying to design their stores more or less like Apple stores where employees personally use the devices that they are selling. For testing purposes Best Buy employees in few of the stores were given devices like iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab etc. so as to process purchases and educate employees.

Though the decision will surely be cheered upon by Apple yet we are not sure if it will prove to be a boon for Best Buy which is still recovering from its few bad quarters that the retail chain has experienced. I am pretty sure that this decision will surely make the Best Buy stores pretty attractive for customers. Might just work!

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Cashing on his online publicity Justin Wagoner has set up his own official page where he plans to keep people posted with regards to his current wait game. He plans to have a life braodcast on UStream during the iPad 2 launch.

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See the image above? Did you know this? I am very sure that many of you pronounce ‘X’ in Mac OS X as ‘ex’. Even I used to call it the English alphabet ‘x’. But today I read in a magzine (a reliable one..Digit) that ‘X’ in Mac OS X stands for ‘ten’.

And to add to that as Mac is short form of Macintosh so one should write ‘Mac’ instead of ‘MAC’.

So the next time say it ‘Mac OS 10′ and write it as ‘Mac’ NOT ‘MAC’. Get That!!

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When it comes down to the actual design of the box, Microsoft’s Windows Vista is hands down the winner. The unique box however has as main practical purpose the company’s need to differentiate genuine Windows Vista copies from pirated versions, sold as legitimate software. While the packaging is not impossible to counterfeit, Microsoft has come to the conclusion that bootleggers did not even try, and instead sold Vista as pirated. By comparison, the boxes for Ubuntu and Tiger are not spectacular. Not for their shape, but what about style? Vista gets second place in my list. It is obvious that Microsoft’s user experience team has done a great job with the design of the overall style of Windows Vista. It is Aero from one end to the other, and the boxes are clear illustrations.

Windows Vista’s packing’s suffer from impersonality; well, the Tiger box says nothing to me. The designers that have looked endlessly for the best CRT monitor, just to enjoy the largest gamut possible in Photoshop know what I am talking about. Tiger’s box is too simple and primitive for my taste, and in this sense it is just the antonym of Ubuntu’s design. Position 3 to Mac OS X.

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OS X is facing the lack of support for Macs by different Internet service providers. That is sad but true. A major reaon why Macs still are not covering that bigger market as Microsoft does. But lets start comparing point by point…

Talking user easiness, one of the most important parts of the battle, it’s a win win situation for both.

Agreed that Vista does not crash very often but the applications that run in it are prone to hang as ever. Why ‘minimize’ ‘maximize’ ‘close’ buttons look identical until you hover over them in OS X? Why one is asked to click ‘Start’ button in Vista when he/she wants to stop using the computer? Why one cannot re-size application windows in OS X? What was the need to bring in Flip 3D in Vista when Alt-Tab is the most convenient way to find the right application window? Why in OS X we have to press Apple plus backspace keys to delete files instead of just pressing delete key?

Oh, and where are the OS X games? And why does Front Row feel like the poor, backwards relation of Windows Media Center?

The issue of security gives an edge to Macs with the UNIX shield supporting it. The default setting of an Apple PC is such that it has all its ports “closed”. Printer sharing, remote login, FTP and many such daily use services are switched off by default. This minimizes the vectors available for a hackers to penetrate a Mac.

Vista on the other hand tries to deliver a lot easier interface for its users along with heavy security. But when it comes to making things easy for your customers you have to, by default, leave some loop holes. This is where Vista looses. Microsoft recommends you update its main protective shield every week, but with so many of spywares being released how long would these updates keep you on the safer side. This of course is a debatable topic. Plus you need to find some 3rd party virus protection to keep your heart beating. Vista provides the out of box solution but it isn’t enough for heart patients.

And with more number of people experimenting with Vista than do with Apple, Microsoft is bound to have more number of negatives in there favor.

When it comes to performance OS X initially was no where near its counterparts due to its inbound love for PowerPC processor. But with OS X falling in love “again”, this time with Intel, battle for performance is evenly matched.

Video encoding, image processing, ultimate graphics, mind blowing sounds and many more such points are NOT too different in either of the two.

But lets get to the gaming world. Lets talk about 3rd party applications. Be it games or the most wanted 3rd party tools, companies prefer to first launch there software for Microsoft and then later think about OS X. It’s the reach of Microsoft, or one can say the promotion (negative & positive) of Microsoft, which gives it this advantage. And do not forget Direct X 10 which will ultimately be accepted by everyone in future.

The larger user base seems to provide Microsoft an easy edge over Apple this time.

Who is more social? Vista is. It is malleable, easy to get on with and not afraid of trying new things, such as experimenting with new form factors. If it fails, users can seek the advice of almost any nerd in land as everybody knows what makes Microsoft tick.

OS X doesn’t mind losing the larger quantity of users. It dose not care if people do not love it, Steve Jobs does and will keep doing that.

OS X has that different touch in it but Vista has fame & the user base, in short, the easy path to success as compared to OS X. Simple enough?

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