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- Weekly Download #38: Google I/O, Podcasts.app, Mansfield
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- Weekly Download #35: RIM, IE, iPad, Lumia and Windows Phone 7.5
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- Weekly Download #33: the New iPad, Apple TV, Draw Something, Mike Daisey
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- Weekly Download #31: iPad 3, Google Goggles, T-Mobile, Facebook, iFactory, Chomp, Microsoft, Nokia, Siri
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Category Archives: Apple
Link: An Error in Price Setting →
An interesting argument: Had HP sold the TouchPad at $99 from the gate, the iPad would have lost a significant market share because the price point is irresistible to consumers. Bolstering this claim is the fact that the TouchPad has … Continue reading
Link: Always-On →
An insight from Michael Gartenberg, Macworld: The MacBook Air is really an always-on device. For the most part, the concepts of on and off are deprecated.
Link: Apple Awards Tim Cook 1 Million Shares →
Matt Rosoff, from SAI: But here’s a fun thought experiment. In the last ten years, Apple’s stock has gone up to more than 40 times its starting value. If Cook were somehow to duplicate the success of his predecessor, that … Continue reading
Weekly Download #11: Tablets and the iPad, Future of HP & Motorola, Facebook’s Privacy, More iPhone Carriers, Lift, Torrenting, Cookies
It’s another Weekly Download with your favorite hosts, Tarun Gangwani and Chris Robbins. This follows #10 which covered Steve Jobs’ resignation. Chris and Tarun discuss Apple’s tablet incumbency and what makes a good mobile computer; the futures of Motorola and … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Business, Design, Facebook, Google, HP, Mobile, News, Podcast, Social Networking, Twitter, WebOS
Tagged podcast, tablets, wd
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Weekly Download #10: Steve Jobs Steps Down
On this special edition (patch) of Weekly Download, Tarun and Chris talk about the resignation of Steve Jobs and his new position as Chairman of the Board. Is Apple doomed in the next few years? Who is Tim Cook? Tarun … Continue reading
Becoming a “Fanboy”
Every tech blog you read today or read yesterday mentioned how Steve Jobs shaped the future of technology. Steve, as CEO at Apple, has done some incredibly powerful stuff. Steve not only changed the consumer electronics world, he changed the … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Uncategorized
Tagged apple, fanboy, steve jobs
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A New Era
Tarun thinks Apple isn’t doomed and Steve Jobs’ legacy will continue to live on for the next few years. Continue reading
Link: Steve Jobs Steps Down →
Today Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs has stepped down from his spot as CEO of Apple. Steve has requested, if the board sees fit, to stay on as Chairman. I have always said if there ever came a day when I … Continue reading
Link: Sprint Receiving iPhone 5? →
It looks like the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the iPhone will come to Sprint in mid-October. The October date sounds about right given all of the speculation about a fall iPhone release to coincide with iOS 5. The … Continue reading
From The Apple Cookbook: A Recipe for Tablet Makers
What makes the iPad the hottest selling tablet (and PC in general)? Tarun discusses the recipe of the iPad and how this is just one product in Apple’s giant cookbook of products that have yet to come. Continue reading
Link: Who can challenge Apple? →
Good summary from Reuters on the current state of the tablet space. The clear message comes from analyst Mark Gerber: The non-iPad tablets just won’t sell at retail. That’s the clear message from events over the past few days. I … Continue reading
Link: HP’s Decade-Long Departure →
The great Horace Deidu, on how HP and other computing giants missed the wave of mobile growth a decade ago: But that’s the nature of unforeseeable growth: you cannot foresee what will happen and plans never work out. Data and … Continue reading
Weekly Download #9: HP and WebOS, Google and Motorola, iPad, 3G MacBooks, Privacy, Milgram
They are making a sequel to WHAT? Chris and Tarun talk about HPs flailing around in big boy territory; Google’s questionable pickup of Motorola; delays in iPad shipments, MacBooks with cellular power; a 13 year old’s privacy issues; a reinventing … Continue reading
Link: HP Everywhere →
The only company that makes an OS that isn’t trying to port it “everywhere” is Apple.
Link: Pushing Back →
Three reasons why Apple is delaying the iPad other than retina display yield issues: The window for shipping the iPad 2 has just become 24 hours. It is unlikely that the hottest selling tablet would need an update in 2 months, … Continue reading
Link: Developer Charged 50k for Children’s Privacy Violation →
This was the first case to be heard by the Federal Trade Commission dealing with applications for mobile devices and applications. Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the FTC, made a statement about the case: “The F.T.C.’s COPPA Rule requires parental notice … Continue reading
Link: 3G MacBook Pros? →
While we do not post much when it comes to rumors and such, I felt this particular article from MacRumors was noteworthy. MacRumors has photos of a MacBook Pro purchased on Craigslist that is clearly a prototype that came has … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Mobile
Tagged 3G, apple, data, mac, macbook air, MacBook Pro, prototype
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Weekly Download #8: Patent Bonanza, TouchPad, Nintendo, Ultrabooks, Wal-Mart, E-Books
Chris and Tarun discuss the recent wave of opinions about patents; The TouchPad’s continued slashing of prices (and desirability); Nintendo’s inane refusal to develop for the App Store; Apple’s slam on Intel to produce low-powered chips for Ultrabooks; Wal-Mart closing … Continue reading
Link: Pressure →
Intel Corp. said its investment arm is allocating $300 million to help encourage innovation around a breed of ultra-thin portable PCs that the chip maker calls Ultrabooks… …Welch said Apple informed Intel that it better drastically slash its power consumption … Continue reading
Link: Nintendo Investors want Apps →
In our podcasts we’ve discussed the fact that Nintendo needs to focus on software and not hardware. It appears that the investors of Nintendo are agreeing with us! “They just don’t get it,” MF Global FXA Securities Ltd. said in … Continue reading
Link: Scot Free →
Recall that the iPhone 4 prototype was first found by one person, given to another person, and then given to Gizmodo. Gizmodo was determined to have committed no crime, while the other two will be charged with counts of lost or … Continue reading
Link: E-Book Pricing Fixed by Publishers and Apple →
Matthew Lasar: This action sees Apple and Amazon as adversaries, the former forcing the latter’s hand. The accusation is that the publishers and Apple fixed prices via two means. First, the publishers embraced an “agency model” arrangement with Apple in … Continue reading
Link: David & Goliath →
After eight years in business, the Walmart Music Downloads Store located at mp3.walmart.com will close on August 28, 2011. All content in the Store will be disabled and no longer available for download from the store. (via Engadget)
Link: iPhone 5 Mockup →
Dan Frommer says it best: It looks awesome. And if you ever needed an example of how extensive, over-the-top, and lucrative the Apple rumors-chasing game has become, here you go.
Link: The Growing User and the Perennial Beginner →
Lukas Mathis: The two goals — simplicity and depth — are at odds. Adding depth also adds complexity. So, what should you do? Go for depth, or go for simplicity?
Posted in Apple, Design, Microsoft
Tagged complexity, design, informatics
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