Posts Tagged ‘ apple ’

Apple obsoletes PowerPC Macs

June 8, 2009
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According to announcements today at WWDC, the next release of Mac OS X, OS 10.6 “Snow Leopard”, will not support PowerPC-based Macs.  I find this pretty annoying.  I like to get my money’s worth out of a machine. Now Apple is telling me I have to get a new machine if I want support, even…

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Nokia handset sales down 19 percent

April 17, 2009
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Alec Saunders provides his analysis of Nokia’s recent report that profits fell 90 percent in the most recent quarter. I agree with Alec’s points.  I would add that this news fulfills my predictions (here and here) that it’s not about the hardware. If it were, Apple would already be in trouble. The iPhone doesn’t compare…

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Is Microsoft getting a bum rap?

August 21, 2008
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Mark Evans thinks there is a double standard when it comes to Apple and Microsoft. He says: No matter how often [Apple] drops the ball with a service (MobileMe) or product (3G Apple iPhone) that doesn’t work, batteries (iPod Nano, MacBook) that over-heat or slashing prices only a few months a product has been released…

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Why iPhone is not “boring”

July 18, 2008
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I’ve seen several comments and posts recently suggesting that iPhone is just another boring story. I believe an historic day passed us by last week. Sure, Apple opening up the iPhone App Store received some press, but I haven’t yet read anything that really “gets” the significance of this event. There’s all kinds of moaning…

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Going green with a Mac Mini

March 25, 2008
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Going green with a Mac Mini

There have been rumors flying about for a long time that the Mac Mini was going to be discontinued by Apple. Now it’s looking like it might be here for at least a while longer, according to AppleInsider, who report that a new version is in the works. I have been working on an elaborate…

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iPhone SDK, not quite

March 11, 2008
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I have not had time yet to figure out whether Apple’s direction with the iPhone SDK is a good or bad thing. Apple will be taking the approach that they will be the only way to distribute apps, the gatekeeper. That sounds bad, but I’m told by people I trust that the process will be…

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iPhone SDK promised date approaching

February 20, 2008
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As many may recall, Steve Jobs had announced in October that Apple would be releasing its much-anticipated iPhone SDK (Software Developers Kit) before the end of February – I’m certainly not going to let them forget it. Rumors are flying as the final days wind down. Some say it will happen next week – others…

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First experience with iPhone is totally lame

October 17, 2007
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So I broke down and decided to get an iPhone to do some development (hopefully) with it. People have told me there were month-to-month options for AT&T service, but this is NOT TRUE. You have to commit to a 2 year plan. The best deal we could find was to add the iPhone to an…

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Apple’s iPhone hacker dilema

September 26, 2007
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Everyone has heard about Apple’s threats regarding unlocked iPhones. On Monday, Apple issued this statement “unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone’s software which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed.” I’m sure this will scare…

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Don’t kid yourself. Apple’s iPhone strategy is an iTunes strategy

July 4, 2007
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Don’t kid yourself. Apple’s iPhone strategy is an iTunes strategy

A lot of us would kill for the master hyping ability of Apple and Steve Jobs. What they achived with the iPhone is nothing short of incredible. And perhaps some of us are just being a little jealous when we write posts like those of Richard Stastny and Michael Robertson. For the most part, I…

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