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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Apple’s Mistake

Paul Graham

I don’t think Apple realizes how badly the App Store approval process is broken.

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Monday, November 23, 2009

Maybe Instead of Two Cars, You Just Need a Car and a Bicycle

John Gruber

One thing that strikes me about Chrome OS and Litl is that neither bother trying to do everything Windows or Mac OS X can do.

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Smoking Near Apple Computers Creates Biohazard, Voids Warranty

Laura Northrup

Unless you’ve just arrived in 2009 on a time machine, you know that smoking isn’t good for you.

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Monday, November 16, 2009

Apple Wouldn’t Risk Its Cool Over a Gimmick, Would It?

Randall Stross

“SOME of the best-loved technology on the planet” is how Apple describes its products when recruiting new employees.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Windows 7 Usage Outpaces Vista, Closes In on Mac

Nick Wingfield

There’s a new sign Windows 7 is off to a strong start: Web surfers have started moving to the operating system much more quickly than they did its troubled predecessor, Windows Vista.

A new research report says Windows 7 on Saturday surpassed 4 percent of all devices visiting Web sites that day, a little over two weeks after the commercial launch of the product.

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

The Man Who Named the iMac and Wrote “Think Different”

Leander Kahney

Meet Ken Segall–the man who dreamed up the name “iMac” and wrote the famous Think Different campaign.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

“iDon’t Care” Creators Speak Out

Andrew LaVallee

The creators of “iDon’t Care,” a video spoofing Motorola and Verizon Wireless’s “iDon’t” ad, said some of their detractors are missing the point.

Three Boston-area ad-agency staffers developed “iDon’t Care.” They said they aren’t affiliated with Apple or any of the other companies involved in the original campaigns–they are, however, iPhone and Mac loyalists, said Jon, one of the video’s editors.

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Apple’s 2009 Ad budget: Half a Billion

Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple shells out a ton of money for advertising.

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Monday, October 26, 2009

Apples to Lemons: Microsoft’s New Retail Showrooms

Susan Older

Hey, I love a blue screen of death as much as anyone, but I wouldn’t drive to the mall just to see one.

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Herd Mentality

John Gruber

So of course there’s some degree of herd mentality in every industry.

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Friday, October 23, 2009

Apple Prepares to Rock the Market With Hardware-Subsidizing Program

Jack Purcher

The US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple today that reveals various concepts behind a newly advanced service in development that entails subsidizing an incredible array of hardware from Apple.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Apple Declares War on the Entire PC Industry

Joe Wilcox

There is absolutely nothing coincidental about Apple launching new products today.

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Servers With Cellphone Chips? Yep, Here They Come.

Ashlee Vance

The era of such a deeply philosophical data center question is upon us.

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Monday, September 21, 2009

Apps Trump Tunes at Apple

Peter Burrows

As iPod sales ease, the company is focusing more and more on software–to the dismay of the record labels

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Cheap Windows 7 Headed for College Campuses

Nick Wingfield

Microsoft is about to find out whether it can prevent further defections to the Macintosh among college students by charging less for Windows 7 than a typical textbook.

On Thursday, the company announced on Twitter that college students in the U.S. can upgrade their PCs to Windows 7 Home Premium edition for only $29.99, as long as they have a genuine copy of Windows XP or Vista already installed on their systems.

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