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 [...]

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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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 [...]

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…

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, [...]

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…

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 [...]

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,…

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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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…