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Predictions dominate the blogs and columns this month. I also write about Microsoft’s lead in netbooks (One Netbook Per Old Laptop) and the fight against spammers.
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Category Archives: Apple
Last week’s stupidity by a professional blogger, as well as CNN, was matched only by the gullibility of traders who acted on the rumor.
Continue readingThe iPhone app kill switch makes sense. It is an innovative approach to protecting a platform in this age of criminal conspiracies to steal your personal information.
Continue readingIf you haven’t already jumped off the Microsoft Windows/Vista platform, you probably have your reasons. But many IT managers are resisting the move to Vista. Microsoft even tried to guilt-trip the Windows XP-only skeptics by pulling Mojave out of its … Continue reading
Will it ever happen? Will Apple one day stop issuing keys to unlock the FairPlay-protected music you purchased from the iTunes Store — iike Yahoo just did with music purchased from Yahoo Music, and Microsoft intends to do in three years with MSN Music?
Continue readingThe new iPhone 3G, iPhone 2 software for iPhone and iPod touch, and MobileMe service all add up to a burgeoning platform for developers to change the world of mobile computing, and it leaves all competitors in the dust.
Continue readingStudies show that Apple has come closer than any other company to making a truly convergent device used for multiple purposes, and that it is beginning to replace laptops in a big way, especially for the baby boomers.
Continue readingAs Apple eats away at Microsoft’s market share on the consumer side of PCs and mobile devices, and Google chips at Microsoft Office’s share in business, Microsoft is caught in the middle and facing a two-front war. The giant in … Continue reading
The iPhone and iPod touch will soon act like the handheld computers they were made to be. Third-party native iPhone and iPod touch applications will flood the market by June.
Continue readingI’m writing this as Steve Jobs delivers his keynote address at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. With its theme “Something in the air” Apple’s intent is to showcase wireless technology and its uses in media.
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