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Apple’s Grand User Experience Unification

February 19, 2012 – 9:33 pm

TweetApple just announced Mountain Lion, the 10.8 version of the Mac operating system, scheduled for delivery in late summer of this year. I dutifully installed the developer preview; it works, mostly (see here for PCMag’s list of notable features, and here for a quick video tour.). More important is that less than a year after [...]

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Steve, Please Buy Us A Carrier!

August 14, 2011 – 8:32 pm

TweetWe’re at the end of the 2011 iPhone 5 launch. The demos went well; Steve Jobs has come back on stage to thank everyone and conclude the proceedings, “…but before you go, just One More Thing. I’d like you to meet someone.” And the CEO of Deutsche Telekom walks onstage. “Deutsche Telekom owns a company [...]

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iCloud: How vs. What

June 12, 2011 – 7:19 pm

TweetOnce a year in San Francisco, Apple summons its third-party application engineers to the World Wide Developers Conference. Since Steve Jobs’ return to the company the event has grown in attendance and importance. One turning point was the 2002 introduction of OS X, a genuinely modern Mac OS, built on a Unix foundation. Then there [...]

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Carnival Barker Edition: Show me your iOS licensing certificate!

May 1, 2011 – 7:33 pm

TweetApple is doing it wrong, Apple is living on borrowed time! Apple will Fail Again! This idea, this meme, isn’t new. For more than 30 years we’ve heard a number of versions of the “Apple is doomed” requiem. December 12th 1980 — the day of Apple’s IPO, coincidentally — I’m in Geneva, signing my employment [...]

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Inside Apple’s Q2 Numbers

April 24, 2011 – 5:36 pm

TweetThis last week, Apple announced their 2011 Q2 numbers. Philip Elmer-DeWitt, whose Fortune Tech Apple 2.0 blog I enjoy and recommend, provides a crisp summary: • Sales: $24.67 billion, up 82.8% year over year • Profits: $5.99 billion, up 95% • EPS: $6.40, up 92% • iPhone: 18.65 million units, up 113% (!) • iPhone [...]

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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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