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Is the new iPod Nano a flop? And does it even matter?
Earlier this week, Apple announced that it just recorded it most profitable quarter in company history, a fact largely due to impressive Mac and iPhone sales. iPod sales, however, were down 8% from the same quarter a year-ago. Interestingly, though, sales of the iPod Touch were up an astonishingly high 100%, a figure which Apple […]
Continue reading...iPhone App Store Developers aren’t getting rich, and why that’s not a problem
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Newsweek recently published an article premised on the argument that most developers in the iTunes app store, contrary to popular public opinion, aren’t in fact getting rich. The problem with this argument is that it rests entirely on the ill-conceived notion that all developers should be getting rich, simply by virtue of releasing an iPhone […]
Continue reading...Why Palm’s “Open” strategy to take on the iPhone won’t work
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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The app store on the Palm Pre is now open for business, and Palm CEO Jon Rubenstein announced at yesterday’s Palm Developer conference that there are already about 127 apps that have been downloaded a total of 7.5 million times. Now that might seem impressive until you consider that the iPhone app store currently has […]
Continue reading...Is anyone else unimpressed with Microsoft’s Courier tablet?
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Early yesterday, Gizmodo published what purports to be a more polished mockup video of how Microsoft’s newly rumored Courier notebook/tablet (or whatever you wanna call it) will function. Reading many of the comments at various tech sites, the masses all seem to be shouting in unison, “I WANT ONE!” Not one to ever kill a […]
Continue reading...New iPod Touch ad shows up on IGN.com, and why the device won’t be getting analog controls anytime soon
Monday, September 28, 2009
Well, in case you needed any more proof that Apple was dead serious about positioning the iPod Touch as a gaming device, look no further than the online ad below which was recently featured on the video game website IGN.com. The ad is pretty similar to other online ad-campaigns that Apple has run previously on […]
Continue reading...Why Microsoft’s Zune HD strategy is too little too late
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
In a recent interview, Zune marketing manager Brian Seitz discussed the Zune HD strategy and whether or not it was concerned with the new camera equipped iPod Nano’s. Q: Are you concerned about competing with new iPods with cameras built in? A: The more things like that that make their way into these devices that […]
Continue reading...Why the new Motorola Cliq won’t be a hit
Monday, September 14, 2009
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Last week, Motorola unveiled its latest attempt to remain relevant in a mobile industry that seemingly passed them by in a heartbeat – the Motorola Cliq. The Cliq features a new Motorola technology called “Motoblur”, a feature which “Motoblur streams your emails, conversations and friends right into your phone. Only Motoblur can sync them all, […]
Continue reading...Why Apple didn’t put a camera in the iPod Touch
Thursday, September 10, 2009
The lack of a camera in the new iPod Touch models has generated a considerable amount of disappointment in the blogosphere, with some folks going so far as to claim that Apple is getting lazy and insulting its consumers. But there’s a method to Apple’s madness, and it’s called business. Despite what Jesus Diaz of […]
Continue reading...Why it’s important for Steve Jobs to show up at today’s media event
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Apple’s media event is just a few hours away, so I’ll keep this brief. There’s a lot of back and forth about whether or not Steve Jobs will show up and present new iPods and other goodies at tomorrows special music related media event. Jobs, of course, hasn’t made a public appearance since he first […]
Continue reading...The case against an Apple HDTV
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
This past February, analyst Gene Munster predicted that an Apple branded HDTV was on the horizon. We expect Apple to design a connected television over the next two years (launching in 2011) with DVR functionality built in. These recorded shows could then sync with Macs, iPhones and iPods over a wireless network. The device would […]
Continue reading...Apple’s growing role in WebKit development and what it means for Flash
Friday, August 28, 2009
The WebKit engine has become the de-facto standard for mobile browsers, something which takes on broader implications in light of Apple’s unparalleled involvement and contribution to the WebKit open-source project. In addition to Apple, a number of other companies such as Nokia and Google are heavily involved with WebKit development, but with approximately 30 webkit […]
Continue reading...Why Gaming won’t be the killer feature on the Apple Tablet
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Cult of Mac brings us the following demo of what gaming might look like on the rumored Apple tablet. The person behind the video below is an anonymous grad student who believes that gaming will be the killer app on the Apple tablet, and below, he comes up with a demo which displays what a […]
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
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