Gadgetory

hi i'm molly wood and welcome to the bus report the show about the tech news that everyone is talking about this week Apple freak-outs the tablet wars begin for real and hey it gets better but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the new macbook air it's got roughly the shape and sharp narrow edge of a butcher knife and the guts of an entry-level macbook except the graphics those are pretty good there's a 13.3 inch and an 11 inch model in the prices range from 99 to 1599 all the new airs are flash memory only so Steve Jobs promises instant on performance like the iPad super long battery life like the iPad and he also said that Apple is opening up an app store for the mac which would mean you could download apps on your flash memory super thin super sexy laptop kind of like the iPad except for two to three times the cost so i gotta say i'm going to the ipad on this one now speaking of Apple the company also held its earnings call this week and Wow here's a surefire way to pep up those boring earnings conference calls have Steve Jobs show up unannounced and let him go ape nuts talking smack about the competition Google loves to characterize Android is open and iOS and iPhone as clothes we find this a bit disingenuous and clouding the real difference between our two approaches in a five-minute rent he talked about how 7 inches isn't enough for a tablet screen because the app experience is terrible and you'd have to file down your fingers to use it maybe he forgot that his company also makes the iphone has apps on it little and also that Apple is probably working on a 7 inch iPad I mean come on you know it's coming and what it does he's going to tell us all about why it's the bee's knees all of a sudden jobs then went on to extol the virtues of apple's consistent user experience as opposed to the fragmented nature of android and then he took some potshots at rim along the way which caused rims co-ceo to shoot back that hey maybe people like a choice of different tablet sizes and how about if Steve Jobs stops trying to tell consumers what to think from up there in reality distortion land he really said that CEO fight then I kind of wish that Steve Jobs would have an earnings call hissy fit every week because it was awesome and actually we're about to see whether people are digging the 7-inch tablet after all because the first serious 7-inch tablet the Samsung Galaxy Tab finally has a price and a release date it's headed to verizon november 11th for 599 bucks a verizon data plan is available for twenty bucks a month but no contract required plus you get android hdmi a front facing camera and that smaller lighter footprint so let the tablet games begin and finally let's have a look at what's clogging the tubes this week it's the It Gets Better Project after the recent rash of gay teen suicides the Internet has been coming together as only the Internet can it started when columnist dan Savage put out a call for people to post videos then a YouTube video of a Texas City Councilman tearfully telling teens that it does get better got more than 3 million views now gay and lesbian google employees have recorded a video even Hillary Clinton is doing one and you know it's rare that we can stand up here and say that the Internet is saving lives but people at the it gets better and The Trevor Project say that they have seen an increase in calls to suicide hotlines so in this case it is and good job internet and yes everyone I promise it does get better and that's the buzz report for this week everyone i'm molly wood and thank you for watching and you feel like there's no hope that there's no one who will ever understand you I'm a software engineer now at Google I'm and I just want to tell you straight forward that things get so much better as you leave high school you are not going to be under the control of those bullies anymore you're going to be in control of your own life