Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)
Wags in Britain are up in arms about the gift that President Obama, in London for the G20 summit, has given to Queen Elizabeth II: an iPod loaded with video and photographs of her 2007 visit to Richmond, Va.
A question inspired by this week’s news that Research in Motion, the company that makes the BlackBerry, has become the chief sponsor for U2’s next bombastic world tour: Who exactly is profiting from this deal?
Is Apple in the process of reinventing the way mainstream headphones are designed for the second time this decade?
Terry McBride thinks the smartphone is going to upend the current version of the record industry as profoundly as the iPod changed the last one. In a speech to college musicians, Mr. McBride said smartphone apps “will radically change the business.”
Users of iPhones beware–state gaming agents are watching you. California gaming authorities tipped off their Nevada counterparts to a blackjack card-counting program that can be used on either the Apple iPhone or the Apple iPod Touch portable music player.
Steve Jobs’s Apple TV hobby, the box that brings iTunes content into the living room, is getting ready for its third revision. What will the company do to leverage the recent spurt of interest in the device and boost sales even further?
When the popularity of Barack Obama meets the popularity of iPod speaker docks, you get…an Obama iPod speaker dock.
But Taiwan-based Ozaki, the company behind the dancing President-elect, didn’t stop there. The Obama dock is part of its iMini line, which fuses the technology of an iPod dock, radio, alarm and speakers–and fuzzy fabric.
“You can’t roll a joint on an iPod,” the singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne told the New York Times Magazine early last year. And, OK, I suppose that’s among the iPod’s drawbacks. But it’s hard to think of an electronic device released in recent decades that’s brought more pleasure to more people. Should anyone care that in the process, the iPod has all but killed the music industry as we’ve known it?
Strange as it may sound, Apple may have an iPod problem. The iconic music player cemented the company’s reputation for innovation and fueled its financial success in recent years. But those days appear to be over. Legions of iPod owners see little reason to upgrade, especially with the rocky economy.
Analysts don’t quite know what will be the impact on iPod, Mac and iPhone sales in light of new challenges facing Apple: the economic downturn, the explosion of the smartphone sector, the impact of netbooks on PC sales and the entrance into the market of new competition. In light of these circumstances, though, many analysts continue to recommend the stock–which is up four percent this morning, to $85.85.
Seven years after Apple snapped up his idea for a portable music player that worked with an online music store, iPod chief Tony Fadell is stepping down to spend more time with his family, as confirmed by Apple in a statement. Replacement Mark Papermaster is a chip expert and soon-to-be-former IBM executive. His tenure could reflect a major shift in Apple’s approach to music.
Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes trimmed his EPS estimates and target price today on Apple (AAPL). He now expects EPS for the September 2008 fiscal year of $5.21, down from $5.23; for FY ‘09 he sees $5.65, down from $6.05. For FY Q4, he sees $1.11, down from $1.12 previously. Reitzes lowered his target price for the stock to $135, from $180.
The Apple (AAPL) spring rally has been almost entirely deleted.
Pressured by a combination of concerns over the health of CEO Steve Jobs, disappointment with the latest round of iPod product announcements and the company’s caution on near-term gross margins, combined with worries about weakening PC demand in the face of a struggling economy, the shares have been ratcheting steadily downward since mid-May.
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