Thursday, June 11, 2009
Don’t Look Inside Apple’s Black Box
Ask Apple what’s in the iPhone and they’ll treat it like a black box, albeit one powered by Apple’s special brand of technological magic.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Apple Has Squandered the Gift That Was Vista
While it’s true that Apple has significantly grown its share of the desktop operating system market since the release of Windows Vista in November of 2006, the company’s market share remains below 10 percent, and it actually dropped in the first quarter of 2009, according to Gartner’s Worldwide PC Shipment report.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Scenes From an Apple Booth
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.)
Monday, January 5, 2009
What’s Behind a Phil Schiller Keynote
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.)
Weekend Roundup: Solar, CES, Converter Boxes, More
Well, take a deep breath: The tech sector starts off the new year with a bang this week, with the Steve Jobs-less Macworld in San Francisco and the Bill Gates-less CES coming up in Las Vegas. I’ll be at Moscone West for the Macworld keynote by Apple marketing exec Phil Schiller Tuesday morning; later in the week, Tiernan Ray and I will be covering all the news from CES.
Friday, January 2, 2009
MacWorld Expo Celebrity Checklist, 2009 Edition
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.)
Monday, December 29, 2008
Apple: iPhone Authors Report Sales Surge on Christmas
Whether or not the Macworld show next month–Apple’s last, the company has announced–brings exciting new gadgets, the new year could see some rising numbers for sales of the company’s iPhone and its attendant software programs. Several authors of top-selling programs for the iPhone, distributed through Apple’s online “App Store,” report a surge in sales of their programs on Christmas Day last week.
Friday, December 19, 2008
How Apple Could Survive Without Steve Jobs
Apple Inc. set off shock waves Tuesday by announcing Steve Jobs will not speak at what the company said would be its final appearance at the Macworld trade show. The news sent the company’s stock downward, and raised questions about whether Mr. Jobs had new health problems or some new products were not ready.
Steve Jobs Didn’t Make the First Macworld, Either
Steve Jobs didn’t show up to the first Macworld Expo, which was held in San Francisco in January 1985, one year after the introduction of the Macintosh. He was in the city, but he spent most of his time holed up at the Union Square Hyatt Hotel with his strikingly beautiful blond girlfriend, whom I only knew as Tina.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Apple and Steve Jobs Had Good Reason to Dump Macworld
Tuesday’s news that Apple had announced that Steve Jobs wouldn’t be appearing at Macworld Expo and that the company would stop exhibiting at the show after 2009 came as a shock. I’m stunned that Apple has taken a 25-year-old event that has been the single best meeting place for the entire community of users and vendors of Apple-related products and treated it like a piece of garbage stuck to the bottom of its shoe.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Bailing on Macworld Is a Good Thing
The first thing that’s coming to so many minds in the wake of Apple’s announcement that CEO Steve Jobs won’t be making his customary keynote address at the Macworld Expo on Jan. 6, is the condition of Jobs’s health. I don’t think his health has anything to do with it. Though I think the speculation that has come to surround his appearance in recent years is a minor factor in the decision.
12 Questions About the Apple-Macworld Expo Breakup
Wow. Wow. Wow. Over the last few days, folks noticed that the traditional announcement that Steve Jobs would kick off IDG’s Macworld Expo with a keynote speech hadn’t come yet, and began wondering if he might be a no-show–as unlikely as that seemed. Sometimes, the unlikely is nonetheless reality….
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
A Mac Geek’s Xmas Wish
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.)
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Will iPhone NDA mean “Never Develop Apps”?
Back when the National Security Agency still had a low profile, before it became the villainous adversary of action movies or the subject of congressional inquiries, there was a quip amongst the agency’s employees that the abbreviation NSA stood for “Never Say Anything.”
Friday, March 7, 2008
The iPhone SDK Has All the Right Answers
It’s not often I write something completely positive about Apple … but there are exceptions to every rule, as I’m about to prove. As Thursday’s iPhone special event approached, I was looking forward to it, but with some trepidation. As a user who has had third-party applications on his iPhone almost since such a thing was first possible, I had concerns that Apple wouldn’t quite understand how well this system had been working. But now, having read the coverage of Apple’s briefing, I am happy to admit I was completely off-base with my concerns.
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