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Why “Sell The Blades, Give Away The Razor” isn’t always a Great Tech Business Model

August 23, 2011

John Gruber, responding to Michael Arrington‘s ideas about what HP should do next: Note: that’s $1.4 billion in revenues, not profits. And that includes the music side, which is over 10 years old. And further note that Apple doesn’t mention profits from the iTunes Store at all. If they were making big bank, Apple would brag [...]

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What the huge sales of the $99 TouchPad tells us about iPad and the future of tablets

August 22, 2011

Nothing.

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How Apple could fix Final Cut Pro X, in 187 words

June 27, 2011

Write a letter. “Dear Final Cut Pro customers, As you know, we’ve just released Final Cut Pro X. We’re really proud of it. It represents the future of what’s become the most important piece of software for professional video. There are features in it — like the magnetic timeline — that we think you’ll love, [...]

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Windows 8, iOS and that weird post by Aaron Holsgrove

June 14, 2011

[Other](http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/windows_8_fundamentally_flawed) [people](http://curiousrat.com/home/2011/6/12/holesgrove-on-gruber-and-windows-8-a-public-trainwreck.html) have picked apart Aaron Holsgrove’s post on “[Why Windows 8 is not fundamentally flawed as a response to the iPad](http://www.businessinsider.com/why-windows-8-is-not-fundamentally-flawed-as-a-response-to-the-ipad-2011-6)”, but I think it’s worth going over more. It’s a catalogue of mistakes, which would keep the average commentator going for days. Take this, for example: >If Apple never released the iPhone, we’d [...]

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My final word on the whole “Macs don’t get viruses” thing

May 26, 2011

It’s something you hear all the time when you read forums and comments. Someone talks about malware and instead of saying malware, they say “virus”. And someone pops up to reply “Macs can’t get viruses. [Mac Defender][] isn’t a [virus][] – it’s a [trojan][]“. And it’s true: There isn’t a self-replicating infectious programme for the [...]

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The bit that John Gruber didn’t quote from Rich Mogull

May 26, 2011

The bit that John Gruber left out of [his post][daringfireball] quoting [Rich Mogull on the Mac Defender malware][macworld]: >Windows 7 is actually more secure than OS X I wonder how many of John’s readers will pick up on that. [daringfireball]: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/25/mogull [macworld]: http://www.macworld.com/article/160098/2011/05/macdefender.html#lsrc=twt_macworld

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New variant of Mac Defender needs no password

May 25, 2011

There’s a new variant of [Mac Defender](http://blog.intego.com/2011/05/02/intego-security-memo-macdefender-fake-antivirus/ “The Mac Security Blog » Intego Security Memo – MAC Defender Fake Antivirus Program Targets Mac Users”) doing the rounds – and unlike the initial versions this one doesn’t require an administrator password to install: > Unlike the previous variants of this fake antivirus,no administrator’s password is required [...]

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Why the spec sheet method of buying a computer is dead

May 25, 2011

Poor Charles Arthur. Charles wrote a relatively simple post asking the question of why the Mac has proved to be so successful lately, out-performing the overall computer market and growing its market share. And in response, he got a 500+ long comment thread in which multiple geeks are arguing over how the specs of the [...]

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Dell’s latest laptop borrows from Apple designs

May 24, 2011

Engadget reviews the Dell XPS 15z, which is supposedly a competitor for the MacBook Pro series. The short version: it’s cheaper, not as powerful, but does at least look a bit better than the old chunky XPS series. When Dell tells you that the XPS 15z has no compromises, that’s not quite the case — [...]

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Malware, the Mac, and the wolf

May 6, 2011

John Gruber’s delivered a list of previous claims that the Mac is about to succumb to malware real soon now under the title of “Wolf!” The analogy John’s making is that the pundits should all remember the tale of the boy who cried wolf. But, as my friend Graham pointed out, John’s missing something: at [...]

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