Tweet We know Intel shunned ARM processors and played virtually no role in the smartphone revolution. But we now learn Steve Jobs asked Intel to build the iPhone microprocessor. Paul Otellini, Intel’s departing CEO, admits he should have followed his gut – and made the smartphone world a very different place. CEO valedictions follow a [...]
Tweet Jawbone is launching is UP wristband in Europe. Beyond the quirky gadget lies a much larger project: Changing healthcare — for better or for worst. Hyperkinetic as he is, Hosain Rahman, the Jawbone founder, must be saturating his Jawbone UP wristband with data. The rubberized band, nicely designed by Yves Behar, is filled with [...]
Tweet Getting rid of Samsung as a processor supplier and, at the same time, capturing the crown jewel of the American semiconductor industry. How could Apple resist the temptation to solve its cash problem and make history again? Halfway through the second quarter of the 2013 fiscal year, most of Apple’s top execs meet at [...]
Tweet Pervasive sensors and IP connections, coupled with the “infinite” storage and computing power in the Cloud, threaten our privacy. We need to defend ourselves and get control of our personal data amassed by private companies and government agencies. Optimists and pessimists may inhabit opposing camps, but they do have one thing in common: Their [...]
Tweet Besides its ads, Apple says very little, confident numbers will do the talking. This no longer works as others have seized the opportunity to drive the narrative. The day before Samsung’s big Galaxy S4 announcement, Apple’s VP of Marketing, Phil Schiller, sat down for an interview with Reuters and promptly committed what Daring Fireball’s [...]
March 10, 2013 – 11:10 pm
Tweet When looking at the potential for a really smart watch, the idea of an Apple iWatch looks almost sensible. Still, there is a long way between the attractive idea and stuffing the required computer power in a wristwatch. As I somberly contemplate the death of personal privacy, our being spied upon everywhere, at all [...]
February 24, 2013 – 8:59 pm
Tweet The iPad placed a clear bet on simplicity — and was criticized for it. The bet won. But now, can the iPad evolve toward more business applications without sacrificing its simplicity, without becoming a “fridge-toaster”? Three years ago, the iPad came out. The device was an immediate hit with customers and (most) critics. Steve [...]
February 17, 2013 – 9:56 pm
Tweet Rumors don’t actual Apple products make, see the perennial Apple TV — and the latest iWatch rumors. This is an opportunity to step back, look at Apple’s one and only love –personal computers — and use this thought to sift through rumors. Every week brings new rumors of soon-to-be-released Apple products. The mythical Apple [...]
February 10, 2013 – 6:38 pm
Tweet Looking for next big wave of products or services, for something as big as smartphones or, more recently, tablets, we see technology kept in check by culture. To qualify as a Big Thing these days, a product — or a service, or maybe something hardly more effable than a meme (think “social networks”) — [...]
February 3, 2013 – 8:43 pm
Tweet The iPad started simple, one window at a time, putting it in the “media consumption” category as a result. Over time, such category proved too narrow, the iPad did well in some content creation activities. Can the new 128 GB iPad continue the trend and acquire better workflow capabilities? Last week, without great fanfare, [...]
