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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Amazon caves in to Macmillan, pouts and sulks
Macmillan E-books – kindle Discussion Forum: We want you to know that ultimately, however, we will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan’s terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles, and we will want to offer them to … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Books, Kindle, Macmillan, Publishing
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Danny’s “jet plane emotions” on the iPad
My deputy-nemesis Danny O’Brien on the iPad, openness, and hacking stuff: “It’s easy to see the iPad as the final tragedy in a long history of openness and tinkerability in general purpose computing. But the truth is, the cyclical fight … Continue reading
Andy Ihnatko sums up the difference between iPad and Android
Otherwise, the release of the iPad marks a classic battle between two philosophies: Is it better to have a device that is loaded with bullet-pointable features? Or is it better to have a device that has a shorter list of … Continue reading
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Never Dupe Your Readers
As someone who’s followed Apple closely for most of my life and also someone who doesn’t really give Jason Calacanis credit for much of anything besides incessantly promoting himself, I knew Apple would never give a guy like that a … Continue reading
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Translating Google
Jeff Jarvis fires off a couple of questions in an apartment in Davos to the Googlers. Here are Eric Schmidt’s answers, with some handy translations from Google-speak. Schmidt: Phones: Will they have a tablet? “You might want to tell me … Continue reading
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Tagged Add new tag, Eric Schmidt, Google, Jeff Jarvis, Microsoft, Quattro Wireless, World Economic Forum, YouTube
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The iPad and me
There’s a million posts around about the iPad today, and there will be a million more tomorrow. My reaction is simply that I’ll be buying one, because I’m a geek, and that’s what I do. As for whether it’s good … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, iPad, Mobile
Tagged Add new tag, Apple, apple ipad, BlackBerry, Handhelds, iPhone, IPod Classic, iPod Touch, Smartphones
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Apple levitates: Financial quarter, by the numbers
Joe Wilcox goes through Apple’s numbers for the quarter thoroughly (and dispassionately – something that I appreciate when it comes to numbers). What sticks out for me is that Apple has managed a pretty astounding feat: preserving unit sales (or … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, iPhone, Macs
Tagged Apple, iPhone, iPod, Joe Wilcox, Macintosh, Windows 7
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Why I’m willing to bet this rumoured iPad ad is fake
Nowhereelse has dug up what it claims is an ad for the forthcoming Apple tablet, dubbed “iPad”. Watch for yourself… So why do I think this is fake? Simple: Apple wouldn’t lead off an ad with a line like “After … Continue reading
Moodagent – a great tool for playlists
Once you start to have thousands of songs on your iPod or iPhone, if you’re anything like me you tend to find that you listen to the same few songs over and over again. It’s almost like you’re paralysed by … Continue reading
Five things Apple could do to make MobileMe great
One thing that hasn’t been talked about in connection with the (presumed) launch of Apple’s tablet on Wednesday is how MobileMe fits into the picture. There’s a good reason for this: MobileMe is one of Apple’s “forgotten products”. Used by … Continue reading
