Despite all efforts to hack the flow of time, the “year 2007” expires on December 31st at midnight. Teams of hackers are still working on cracking the encryptions to prevent “year 2007” from expiring. Unfortunately, their efforts so far bear no fruits.
If you are affected by the expirations, please do not panic. Upon the expiration of “year 2007”, “year 2008” will automatically activate and resume any tasks carried over from “year 2007”. If for some reasons, you found out that other people in different part of the world were already upgraded to “year 2008”, please do not panic. That’s because you’re living in a different time zone that is a little bit behind the time. As a matter of fact, numbers of part of the world have already had “year 2008” activated at the time of this writing.
Q: Would I need a new serial number to upgrade from “year 2007” to “year 2008″?
A: No. You don’t need any serial numbers at all.
Q: Is “year 2008” backward compatible with “year 2007”?
A: Generally yes. But remember to date anything with “2008” instead of “2007”. Let alone using “2009”.
Q: Where do I sign up for “year 2009“ beta testing?
A: Unfortunately such beta program has not been announced yet.
Q: I love “year 2007”, and I refuse to upgrade to “year 2008”. What can I do to stay with “year 2007“?
A: In a way it is a mandatory upgrade. You can pretend that it’s still “year 2007“, but it’s going to be hard to interact with everyone else. There is one other extreme solution, but I won’t get into that; let alone recommending or condoning it.
Q: Will “year 2008“ performs better than “year 2007“.
A: Results may vary. It also depends on what happened in “year 2007“.
Q: Will my love life be better after upgrading to “year 2008“?
A: Can’t answer that one. You’re on your own, buddy!
Q: What kind of warranty does “year 2008“ come with?
A: “Year 2008“ comes with a limited lifetime warranty; the lifetime of “year 2008”. It’s guaranteed to run until December 31st, 2008. It also comes with guaranteed upgrade to “year 2009“.
Q: Can I get full refund if I don’t like “year 2008“?
A: You’ll get full refund of the amount you paid for purchasing the “year 2008“. Basically you’ll get refund in the amount of nothing.
Q: I think I like “year 2008“. But can it run Linux?
A: You dirty unbathed Linux Hippie!
Q: Should I buy an iPhone along with “year 2008“?
A: Should you? Buy it if you want it. I’d suggest to wait until Steve Jobs is done with his annual Keynote at MacWorld San Francisco. If you’re recently given a T-Mobile Dash after you dropped and broke your Treo, just wait and listen to me!
Year 2008 is expected to be the time of many events, which some of them are carried over from year 2007. In the world of technology, many events are scheduled to take place in year 2008. Confirmed events to take place shortly after year 2008 activates are CES and MacWorld San Francisco.
According to many rumors, speculations, analysis, and pure imaginations; the followings are expected to be announced at MacWorld San Francisco 2008:
- iPhone announcements. Second Generation iPhone with 3G network support?
- New Mac announcements. New MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, and Mac mini?
- Updates to Apple TV with more features.
- iTunes movie rental.
- More DRM-free music on iTunes Store.
- New Apple software. What could it be?
- iPhone software updates.
- More news on iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK).
- Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard update. (10.5.3)
- A new device from Apple. OK, this one can be classified “made-up”. Take that, Apple!
to be continued.