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Daniel Eran Dilger
While pundits like to fixate on how Apple may possibly be making less than they first postulated, and then mercilessly torture their invented strawman like a voodoo proxy for the as yet bulletproof iphone, the reality is that Apple has built a series of revenue engines that will not only make the company money, but will also support the ongoing development of the iphone platform and keep it well ahead of rivals.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Based on a handwringing report issued by Toni Sacconaghi of Bernstein Research, Barron blogger Eric Savitz and Rex Crumb, a colleague of John Dvorak at MarketWatch, are both worried that Apple won’t be able to sell enough iphones this year, and doubly concerned that a significant chunk of what the company does sell will be used unlocked. In other words, the iphone faces a possible demand shortage problem that is complicated by excessive worldwide demand in markets where Apple hasn’t yet established an exclusive partner. Oh the humanity.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Pundits are using scary math and dangerous sounding language to portray the imminent collapse of Apple’s leading position with the iPod. Silicon Alley Insider has been plotting out a tumbling graph depicting falling iPod sales growth while iSuppli just released an announcement that Apple was “slashing” its Flash RAM orders. Taken together, it sounds like the economic outlook for 2008 will rip the iPod and iphone apart. That’s wrong, here’s why.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Over the last few months, HD-DVD appeared to rapidly fall from its apparent position as promising new disc format–touted by supporters as being technically superior, significantly cheaper, and less restrictive–down to a harsh new reality of scheduled death. However, the fate of HD-DVD wasn’t nearly as unpredictable as some seemed to think. Here’s why HD-DVD’s end should not have been a surprise, what lessons can be learned from its death, and what its demise means for Microsoft.

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Before you part with any hard earned money by paying for a program like Lifepath Unlimited you should be sure in yourself that you are the right person for this kind of venture. Home business opportunities like Lifepath Unlimited are quite simply not for everyone.

Have you joined home based business opportunities before and quit after a few months? What makes you think that this time with Lifepath Unlimited will be any different? You should ask yourself if the reason for your quitting was due to your impatience or some other personal shortcoming, or whether it was due to the inherent shortcomings of lack of quality in the program that you chose. If it is the latter then for sure Lifepath Unlimited may be able to help.

Programs like Lifepath Unlimited can be incredibly rewarding both financially and in other ways, but if you do not have the right attitude then this could go the same way as your other failed investments.

Daniel Eran Dilger
The most obvious new feature of Apple TV is its ability to rent iTunes movies, including a new selection of HD flicks that turned up on the iTunes Store in the last 48 hours. Here’s a look at how Apple’s rental solution prices out against rival services in terms of prolonged cost, as well as a comparison of picture quality of Apple’s HD downloads when viewed side-by-side against other high-def content sources such as HD Cable and Blu-ray.

Our previous segment covered the new features of the Apple TV Take Two software: HD movie rentals, HDMI improvements, new iTunes Store integration, new podcasting features, new web photo albums, new Dolby Digital surround sound audio support, and ad hoc iTunes streaming over AirTunes. Apple TV revolves around HDTV and home theater. That leads potential Apple TV buyers to the question: how well does Apple TV stack up against other sources of HD content?

Continues: Apple TV Take 2 review (part 2): HD Movie comparisons

Technorati Tags: Apple, the Media

Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple is keeping itself busy. Along with the 10.5.2 update to Mac OS X Leopard and a new reference release of Aperture 2.0, the company quietly made available the free new “Take Two” software upgrade for Apple TV on Tuesday. Here’s a look at how Apple TV compares as a living room media player and source of HDTV content, what’s new in the software upgrade, and how well the device achieves its goal of bringing iTunes media to home theaters in its second try at inventing itself.

From a non-blazing 1.5 Mb DSL connection, the software update download takes about twenty minutes, and then takes another ten minutes to install. The update actually includes three software upgrades:

• An EFI firmware update.
• A firmware update for the Apple TV’s HDMI video hardware that enables 1080p output through upconversion.
• The new Take Two menus and interface with support for HD downloads, rentals, AirTunes and more.

Continues: AppleInsider | Apple TV Take 2: an in-depth review (part 1): what’s new

Technorati Tags: Apple, Apple TV, Review, Software

Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple’s announcement that it wouldn’t be exhibiting at this year’s National Association of Broadcasters trade show sent the rumor mill into high alert, resulting in claims that the company may soon exit the Pro App business with a sale of its Final Cut Studio software to a third party after having lost its interest in the market for video editing software. They’re wrong, here’s why.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
In this fourth installment of our MacBook Air review series, we pit Apple’s standard hard disk drive (HDD) model against the standard solid state drive (SSD) configuration in a set of battery and benchmark tests to gauge the performance and power saving capabilities of each. Videos are used to demonstrate a side-by-side simultaneous boot, as well some application launch tests.

Most critics of the MacBook Air have largely focused on what it doesn’t have in comparison to the full size MacBook and high end MacBook Pro. This sounds a lot like complaining that a convertible lacks seats for six adults and the cargo room of a minivan. What’s more interesting about the Air is how well it serves the purpose it was intended to achieve: a light, thin, and highly mobile laptop.

The previous two segments looked at issues faced by early adopters. Early adopter issues: MacBook Air and Migration Assistant examined the problems related to using only its built in WIFI 802.11n wireless networking to import files and users from another computer. In initial testing, it looked like the problem was the speed limitations of WiFi, but our followup testing suggests that WiFi can be very competitive for installing software.

In addition to the customary features Apple pared away from the Air to make it lighter, thinner, and less expensive, the new laptop also offers a new option: a solid state drive. It’s not cheap, but it is fast and promises to be more reliable than a physical hard drive mechanism. SSDs use high density Flash RAM chips to store data in place of a conventional HDD’s magnetically read platters

Continues: AppleInsider | MacBook Air face-off: HDD vs SSD (with video)

Technorati Tags: Apple, Mac, Review, Software, the Media

Daniel Eran Dilger
The MacBook Air ships with software tools that allow users to do without the external drive option for most purposes. Remote Disc, Remote Install, and related technologies that enable the Air to share a network host’s optical drive both for reading files, installing software, backing up data, and even booting over the network. Here’s a look at the Air’s SuperDrive and how well early adopters can expect Apple’s software to actually work as an alternative to carrying around a physical SuperDrive.

Next to the missing FireWire and Gigabit Ethernet, the MacBook Air’s missing optical drive presents the second largest issue for new adopters of the ultra-thin, lightweight laptop. Apart from Sony, which has a reputation for shoehorning impossibly thin optical drives into its ultra small VAIO laptops, most other ultra mobile laptops drop an internal optical drive to shave off volume, weight, and battery consumption. Like the MacBook Air, they supply a matching, external optical drive; the difference with the Air is that Apple suggests that its SuperDrive is entirely optional.

Continues: AppleInsider | Early adopter issues: MacBook Air, SuperDrive, Remote Disc and Install

Technorati Tags: Apple, Mac, Review, Software