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What I want for my Mac

February 27, 2011 – 6:39 pm

Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée I was a happy man. After twelve years of Windows use at work — the usual Outlook excuse — I was about to be saved by Vista. On January 30th 2007, 8:00 am, the doors opened at Fry’s in Palo Alto. I showed up early to claim my prize, a 17” HP [...]

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What future for the Macintosh?

February 13, 2011 – 6:54 pm

TweetWith Apple’s smartphones and tablets making so much money and taking up so much media bandwidth, one has to wonder: Is there a future for the Macintosh? We’ll first take a look at broad trend numbers and try not to molest them too much. As we saw last week, they’ll confess to anything when under [...]

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Apple’s bet on publishing

January 23, 2011 – 8:45 pm

TweetApple’s upcoming subscription plan is making large publishing companies hysterical. Rightfully so. Some of them built a complete business model for the iPad based on a commercial agreement that is now being revoked. Apple is not only changing the rules, but it does so in the worst possible way — in their usual cold My [...]

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Inside Apple’s numbers

January 23, 2011 – 8:39 pm

TweetOn Monday last week we hear Steve Jobs is taking another medical leave of absence and, on Tuesday, we get a look at Apple’s numbers for Q1 2011 (which is actually the last quarter of 2010). Brian Hall provides this crisp summary: • Sales: $26.74 billion, up 70.5% year over year • Profits: $6 billion, [...]

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LimpingMe: Apple’s Cloudy Service.

December 13, 2010 – 1:06 am

Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée Friday morning, I stop at Il Fornaio to get my last caffeine fix of the morning. Once arrived at the office across the street, I realize I “lost” my iPad. Not to worry, I’ve done this before. Find My iPhone will tell me where it is. It worked a couple of months [...]

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Mac App Store: Soon But Controversial

December 5, 2010 – 2:07 pm

Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée This year, three wishes were on top of my list: A smaller, lighter MacBook, an app store for the Mac, and a curated iOS app store. I got two out of three. The 11” MacBook Air works quite well when the passenger in front of me fully reclines his seat; and Apple, [...]

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The iPadification of OS X – Part II

November 14, 2010 – 11:24 pm

Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée Two weeks ago, I argued that iOS will evolve into the operating system for future incarnations of iMacs and MacBooks. The comments on the article provided abundant food for thought, so much so that I decided to argue the opposite point of view: Yes, OS X and iOS share some bits of [...]

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Apple’s Next Macintosh OS

October 31, 2010 – 6:37 pm

Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée Operating systems don’t age well. Some have better genes than others or they have more competent caretakers, but sooner or later they are stricken by a cancer of bug fixes upon bug fixes, upgrades upon upgrades. I know, I lived inside two OS sausage factories, Apple and Be, and was closely associated [...]

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Science Fiction: An Apple-Curated App Store

September 6, 2010 – 6:46 am

TweetIn an alternate universe, Apple has announced the App Store Guide and Blog. Choice morsels from the PR material follow. “We came to realize that a quarter million apps meant worse than nothing to Apple users”, said Apple’s CEO. “I get confused too! Reviews are often fake, lame, or downright incompetent. PR firms have been [...]

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Thus spake Steve Jobs: The PC isn’t dead yet

June 13, 2010 – 8:59 pm

TweetDaniel Lyons, the Newsweek tech writer notorious for his Fake Steve Jobs blog, penned an epistolary piece last week (R.I.P., Macintosh) in which he asks and answers the question: “Is Apple ignoring its signature line of computers and laptops? Yup.” The columnist claims that with the iPhone and the iPad as the Dear Leader’s new [...]

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