Archive for the 'Apple' Category

Jun 05 2008

Who is Gary Krakow? Why is he off his meds?

TheStreet.Com has an add interview with some hilarious tripe about how Apple/Jobs needs to “bite the bullet” and “license WindowsMobile or RIM’s Blackberry” code.
This guy is clearly in need of psychiatric help. Like now. I mean he’s either had a break, or he’s the most transparent and disingenuous shill since Rob [...]

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Jan 23 2008

Patently Insane

Published by David HM Spector under Apple, Technology

Here we go again… yet another Patent Troll is going after someone — in this case Apple — for something that so obvious and in fact generic, you’d have to have to be from some other planet not to see that it’s not patentable.
At issue is something known as the “783″ patent, US Patent #7,321,783, [...]

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Dec 03 2007

AT&T’s CEO: Idiot or Genius? You be the judge…

Published by David HM Spector under Apple

Quite a big deal has been made of AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson’s diarrhea of the mouth this past week where he more or less pre-announced a 3G iPhone coming in 2008 from Apple.  Cringely esitmates that this may well cost Apple over $1 billion in holiday sales, and that this was a calculated effort on the [...]

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Oct 29 2007

OS X Leopard vs Java 6: Everyone Calm Down!

Published by David HM Spector under Apple, Java, OS X

[update: Of course,  the author of this excellent bit of analysis is Eric BURKE ..not "Burns" {/me blushes; looks at ground, fidgets nervously} Oy-vey. Major briano on my part ... must have been channeling an old friend of mine who is, in fact, named Eric Burns. My Apologies to this Eric!! [...]

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Oct 22 2007

Tick… tick… tick… 96 hours until Leopard….

Published by David HM Spector under Apple, OS X

In just a little under 96 hours, Apple will loose OS X v 10.5 a.k.a. “Leopard” on the world. As a long time devotée of Apple’s stuff (I was writing software professionally back on my Apple ][ in high-school) I think this is the most exciting release yet.
Apple posted a very nice “guided [...]

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Oct 10 2007

Disney to Kids with Macs: DROP DEAD!

Published by David HM Spector under Apple, Internet, Kids, Software

So, my 7 yr old daughter surfed on over to Disney this evening after finsihing her homework to play a few games.    No matter what game she tried to play she got a “redirect” message (see below - talk about your poor site design), and then a notice that the game she selected (and it [...]

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Sep 07 2007

Early Adopters, Man Bites Dog, and Apple…

Published by David HM Spector under Apple, Life

I was surprised that Apple dropped the price on the iPhone on Wendesday too. I was more surprised at the immediate nasty reaction from some bitter iPhone purchasers - it’s interesting that these early iPhone user feel so cheated. I think that there’s more here than meets the eye than just the $200 [...]

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Sep 05 2007

One more thing… that Apple should have announced, but didn’t.

Published by David HM Spector under Apple

There was a “one more thing” that Steve Jobs didn’t announce today, which he should have: a iTunes Music Server (notice I didn’t say an AppleTV server… they already made one of them :). I am one of those crazy people who, like most media lovers, has ungodly amounts of Music, podcasts, [...]

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Sep 05 2007

iPod Touch is a game changer…

Published by David HM Spector under Apple, Internet, Technology

Like just about everyone I was hitting the refresh button on my browser as today’s Apple Special Event unfolded. The refresh of the iPod line was a “given,” but i didn’t actually expect them to intro a WiFi-based iPod based on OSX today (even though it’s been rumoured for weeks).
I think this is [...]

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