July 2012
2 posts
A Tale Of Two Companies
parislemon:
Steve Jobs, 2010:
“If you see a stylus, they blew it.”
MIT Technology Review, 2012:
Microsoft Mulls a Stylus for Any Screen
iPod Nano Watch Change Up?
Could totally see Apple changing the iPod Nano back to long form and rebranding the current Nano as a watch/fitness device with Bluetooth.
June 2012
2 posts
WWDC Predictions
Lots of hoopla this weekend and ridiculous expectations for Apple on what they will announce on Monday. Below is what I think will come out of Monday’s keynote.
EASY…
iOS 6, see some predictions below for that. I don’t think it will be drastic. I think all the stock apps will be updated, SIRI API’s, tweaks to notifications, new default wallpaper, and probably a...
May 2012
1 post
iOS 6 Predictions
WWDC is right around the corner and the rumor mill is starting to churn. What will be the killer feature this year? And what will be the feature not discussed and withheld for the next iPhone. In iOS 4 it was FaceTime, and in iOS 5 it was Siri. Based on current rumors and needs of iOS have a few predictions. Here they are.
1. PHOTOSTREAM ENHANCEMENTS: There is pretty good evidence that Apple...
March 2012
3 posts
Google Music Is Bleeding →
Interesting how Google Music hasn’t even been mentioned in the media lately. This along with Google+ pretty much being a ghost town doesn’t say much for their sustainability.
parislemon:
Pretty much everything Wayne Rosso says (extending upon what Greg Sandoval previously said) rings true except for the notion that Google might pull the plug on the service so soon. That would make...
Why the iPad Event Announcement Stopped Traffic.
During Mobile World Congress right during Eric Schmidt’s Google Keynote Apple sent out the invitation to the iPad announcement event on March 7th. While listening to Vlad Savov from the Verge Mobile Podcast rant about why an announcement of an announcement would literally send shockwaves throughout Mobile World Congress. He couldn’t understand the big deal that it was. He scoffed at...
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Mountain Lion Will Be Free
I made a post on Twitter recently that I think that Apple will give away Mountain Lion to current Lion users. I believe this is the future of OSX updates. I believe for as long as its 10.X it will be free to existing users of the previous iteration. Updating OSX will be a vital component to the future of iCloud. For as long as Apple provides iCloud as a free service they will have to implement...
January 2012
12 posts
Let's Stop Pretending Apple Is the Problem, Shall...
nissacam:
Have you visited the New York Times to read Charles Duhigg and David Barboza’s analysis of the working conditions in the Chinese factories that work with Apple? It’s not really news, given how many other journalists and bloggers have been compiling similar articles these days, but it’s very, very thorough.
As usual, I’m struck by a few things. For instance, this focus on Apple. Apple...
Why We Gloat
parislemon:
5 years ago, I made a bet. Two bets, actually.
The first was with myself. I bet myself that if I devoted serious time to it, I could become a great technology blogger. It wasn’t an easy bet to make. I knew it would require upending my life at the time. And it did.
The second bet was related to the first. I knew that to become a key tech blogger, I would need a focus. As a...
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The Apple TV...Here is how it will be done.
They say where there is smoke there is fire. The unicorn known as the Apple TV, an actual television made by Apple has been a hot topic the past few months since Steve Jobs passed away. In the Isaacson penned biography, Jobs is quoted as saying he “cracked it,” referring to the Apple Television. However since that time there have been many naysayers claiming that Apple would never...
CES Over-hyped Again.
CES has now come to end. And here is thing, I honestly barely remember a thing that was announced. I remember a pretty cool TV thats still two years away from being an affordable option for consumers. I also remember a ridiculous laptop computer from Lenovo called the “Yoga”. Apple’s competitors are basically trying anything to get attention at trade shows. Basically the Yoga...
Cloud Copy
Acer had one of the first keynotes at CES on Sunday, Jan 8th. One of the things they announced, aside from the MacBook Air rip off “ultra book” computer, was their new AcerCloud service. Essentially its iCloud for Windows and Android. It’s another prime example of where the industry is headed.
Each week on Twitter and on the tech blogs there is some pundit describing what...
Why aren't Android tablets selling?
Many Android enthusiast believe that Android is set to take over mobile as a whole and Apple will not be able to withstand it’s assault. For sure it won’t be easy for Apple to maintain its marketshare due to sheer number of Android devices on the market. For instance there are over 400 Android Phone models in use today. Compare that to three models of the iPhone. Yet, the iPhone...
We Are The 0.6% →
parislemon:
Hard to pick the most ridiculous element of these updated numbers.
Is it that just 0.6% of Android users have Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) two months after it launched?
Is it that of the remaining 99.4%, only 55% are upgraded to Gingerbread (2.3), which came out over a year ago?
Is it that over 30% are stuck on Froyo (2.2) which is 20 months old?
Is it that 8.5% (something like 10...
"Clopen"
parislemon:
This is a great post by Danny Sullivan. For those of us caught up in the iOS vs. Android battle, it can be easy to lose sight of the simple, bigger picture.
Android may be “open” in the fact that other companies can use the source code and users who so desire (and know how) can root it. But from a pure consumer perspective, the Android phone ecosystem is often anything but open....
Samsung Has Gone Too Far This Time.
The topic of patent infringements has been pretty hot in the tech world the past year. Apple has been at the forefront of most litigations as they stand to protect their intellectual property. Samsung, by far, has tried the hardest to be like Apple and have gone to great lengths to get there. Everything from their Android “Touch Wiz” interface and complete rip of the iPhone 3Gs to a...
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CES: The Industries Response to Apple
So now its 2012 and we are approaching yet another CES in Las Vegas. Last year it seemed like every manufacturer and their brother conjured up a response to the iPad. Here we are a year later and no one has been up to the challenge. If anything I think it may have sent some of them home for good. See Fusion Garage. I think Apple proved its not easy to create a game changing product; it’s...
