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MacBook Air spawns new software solutions for missing hardware

January 31, 2008 - 11:27 pm Comments Off
macbook air spawns new software solutions for missing hardware

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Tech enthusiasts like to argue about whether Apple is a really a software company or a hardware company. Its earnings reports make it clear the company generates its revenues through selling hardware, but its unique software adds much of the differentiated value to its products. The MacBook Air is no exception, leveraging new software assets such as Remote Disc, Remote Install, and a specialized Migration Assistant.

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Video Game Consoles 2007: Wii, PS3 and the Death of Microsoft’s Xbox 360

January 31, 2008 - 12:04 am Comments Off
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Throughout 2007, the media consistently reported leading sales of Microsoft’s Xbox 360, dismal figures for Sony’s struggling PlayStation 3, and celebrated the long shot Nintendo Wii as a possible contender in game consoles. This portrayal of the video game market in 2007 was grossly misleading, and I have the figures to demonstrate why.

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Is the MacBook Air Another Cube?

January 29, 2008 - 11:17 pm Comments Off
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Despite its reputation as a vendor of fashion-conscious products–and a resulting exposure to the risk of looking foolish to a specification centric market with fickle taste and an insatiable demand for perpetual improvement–the New Apple hasn’t made many poorly conceived concept product mistakes. In the past decade, the closest Apple has come to releasing a form over function flop was the 2000 Power Mac G4 Cube, an elegantly designed PC in a Kleenex-shaped lucite box.

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Travelocity Comes to the iPhone

January 29, 2008 - 7:38 pm Comments Off
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Travelocity recently revealed a new Web application for iPhone owners which lets them interact with their travel itineraries. Like other Web applications, it is viewable through the Safari browser. The Travelocity Web application will let users do things like get…

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John Dvorak Finally Gets Something Right on Apple

January 28, 2008 - 11:03 pm Comments Off
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How Wrong Can One Guy Be?
Daniel Eran Dilger
I try to avoid reading John Dvorak, because I am the moth to his flame just as he plays the fly to Apple’s ointment. Further, what I write in response to his sticky linkbait is nearly as predictable as what Dvorak writes about any subject, and I don’t like to be predictable. However, Dvorak finally got something right in writing about Apple, and that is indeed noteworthy.

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The JAVOedge Shield Case for iPhone

January 28, 2008 - 8:18 pm Comments Off
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This, to me, is a smart product. Not only am I always looking for conceptual products for iPhone, but I’m really not a fan of a bunch of flaps, snaps, or worst of them… belt clips. This kind of stuff…

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Pundits Pounce On Apple in a Contest of Epic Idiocy

January 28, 2008 - 12:47 am Comments Off
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Pundits Pounce on Apple
Daniel Eran Dilger
Every Tuesday at noon, the entire city of San Francisco is alerted to civil defense sirens that dramatically blare for a moment, followed by an announcement that nothing really happened and there’s nothing to worry about. Only once a year, at the Macworld Expo, that warning is followed by a worldwide media announcement that Steve Jobs’ keynote disappointed and that everyone should be upset. Like the City’s weekly sirens, that predictable response by pundits makes for a bit of an attention arresting, jarring noise but is then quickly forgotten.

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Apple's In-Store Service IS Genuis.

January 27, 2008 - 3:00 pm Comments Off
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Just thought I’d give kudos to the iPhone support I received from Apple this weekend. I’ve heard people talk about what a hassle the whole iTunes syncing/activating thing is, and some other complaints that just seem whiney. They’re not perfect,…

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Mike Elgan’s Moronic Tirade on the iPhone

January 26, 2008 - 2:41 pm Comments Off
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Who would have thought Computerworld’s Mike Elgan, the former editor of Windows Magazine and an incessantly badgering Apple complainer, would feel compelled to excitedly report on the future of Apple’s iphone product line?

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1.1.3 Update Bricking iPhones?

January 26, 2008 - 1:26 pm Comments Off
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iLounge reported yesterday on what may be a headache for iPhone owners trying to upgrade to 1.1.3. It appears there have been widespread reports of serious problems which, in some cases, are bricking the Apple mobile. Problems have been noted…

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