Saturday, August 31, 2013


MS, both under Gates and Ballmer, have never ever been "innovators" 

They copied the Mac OS with an inferior OS, Windows, and locked in businesses like IBM did prior to them.

They got lucky when Steve Jobs was fired from Apple.

They went around his company which was being led by idiots for 12 years, until Steve Jobs' returned in 1997.

Ballmer and MS basically applied IBM's strategy, "hegemony," to kill the competition and create a hostile and retaliatory corporate environment, both internally and externally.

It became worse when Ballmer, a boorish man, was left in charge.

I'm surprised that it's taken this long to catch up to him and Microsoft.

I'm not surprised that he and Gates made a ton of money copying the Mac OS.

However, if one followed Dediu's theory about computer and device manufacturers, hp and Dell wouldn't be on the verge of evaporating into the wind, they would be besting Apple, and they are not, far from it.

Eventually, Samsung will be where Dell and hp are now.

History will remember Steve Jobs and Apple, not the boorish thugs and imitators.

Steve Ballmer and the Innovator's Curse






Horace Dediu makes more sense in this article, the Rear view mirror, than he does on Steve Ballmer and Microsoft, The innovator's curse.  

The rear view mirror





 is still a computer company.

New Mac Pro release date, rumours and images: updated with Apple's cinema ad






Apple's late entry to music streaming could still outplay the field




Apple blocking support personnel vacations from Sept. 15-28 for launch of new iPhones & iOS 7




Heads up ebook buyers: here's what you will get from the Apple ebook settlement






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Friday, August 30, 2013




Apple is 'dead money' says porn-loving bond king

DoubleLine Capital's Jeffrey Gundlach is bad-mouthing Apple, Again.






Hawaiian Airlines to replace entertainment systems with iPad minis





Apple begins training support on iOS7 - Customer surprise





Apple confirms iPhone trade-in program begins today at retail stores





Mark my words: What Samsung will learn from Apple's iWatch






$89K worth of counterfeit Apple products seized by police from Maryland mall






DeskConnect: easier way to share links, photos, & docs between iPhone and Mac





Pretty obvious where the MacMini is located, and the detachable SSDs

Black Betty 2K camera can shoot, cut and upload video with built-in Mac Mini






I was talking to the photographer as he was setting up this shot in the Fashion Mall 

He was using a new D600 like mine with a wide angle lens and was shooting full frame RAW 

The camera was on a tripod with a long extension, and he used his remote to click the shutter

For new scalable Fashion Mall Images with filter manipulation

Click on VIEW MALL IMAGES in upper left hand corner of page 

The Fashion Mall at Keystone 





In my experience, I see 10 iPhones in use for every Android, so I don't know where these numbers come from.

A Game of Ecosystems: Measuring ecosystem performance
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Thursday, August 29, 2013



Well, the big rumor of new iPads from yesterday is gone today

The brief life and quiet death of an Apple iPad rumor







Why micro-location iBeacons may be Apple's biggest new feature for iOS 7





He's joining Xiaomi in China, the company that is besting sales of the iPhone in China

He was also dating a coworker who left him for Google founder Sergey Brin
 

Android's Hugo Barra departs Google for China's Xiaomi 







Sudo Flaw Opens Potential Security Risk for OS X, Linux Users






Kula Deeper isn't what you think it is (video)




Not so much

Parallels offers awkward access to Windows apps on iPad for $80 a year





Speculation time: To understand Apple's A7, just look at its predecessors





ESPNews and ESPN Deportes are now streaming on Apple TV





Samsung Obsessed with Dethroning Apple as the King of Tablets



"Samsung is adopting a strategy to flood the market with various tablets including 7, 8- and 10-inch models, as it seeks to dethrone Apple."




iPad advancing on the enterprise

Apple Advances New Elaborate Collaboration System



"In one embodiment, users will be able to add content to a digital system by using a pen that streams coordinates so that input to the digital system may be based on conventional pen and paper handwriting."




htc rushes to beat iPhone to China riches

HTC Develops China-Focused Mobile Operating System








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Wednesday, August 28, 2013



Eduardo Cue joined other Apple execs and board members who sold AAPL stock and options before Tuesday, when the US all but declared war on Syria.


Apple SVP Eddy Cue sells off $12.4M of vested stock, CEO Cook withholds shares



Apple SVP Eddy Cue sells off $12.4M of vested stock, CEO Cook withholds shares




The incredible shrinking Apple e-book remedy





26 years ago in 1987 is when I first logged onto the internet with an Apple Modem connected to my Macintosh II with the first color monitor. Then, almost nothing was in color on the internet, until eWorld came out as a web browser in 1994, unfortunately Netscape launched that same year followed by internet Explorer the next year in 1995.  I think it was part of Apple's deal with receiving money from Bill Gates, when Jobs returned in 1997, that they made Explorer equally available as Netscape and AOL.

Today, we have Google Yahoo and Bing available as search engines on our "high speed" cable and DSL services.

19 years later, eWorld is Dead: Long live eWorld

...Apple created AppleLink Personal Edition, a similar tech-support system for consumers, with Quantum Computer Services running the backend. Quantum Computer Services soon became America Online, or AOL, with a young Steve Case at the helm. 1987 saw Quantum running AppleLink PE, with Apple getting a percentage of the fees Quantum was charging users of the service.




Analyst schools CNBC host on the Apple e-book case





Apple is where all the innovation is

Apple is the patent trolls' No. 1 target, with 171 suits since 2009






This is going to be very popular for business and one step closer to having a full tablet Mac within a year from now.

Parallels Access brings Mac and Windows programs to Apple's iPad with full gesture support






iPhone as an intelligent remote control, and a DIY silent disco device





Apple acquires Swedish data compression comany AlgoTrim






Apple Store's new design preserves fountain








Apple said to plan first Tokyo retail store since 2005






Apple's Sep. 10 iPhone media event said to also include new iPads





Apple projected to ship nearly 65M 'iWatch' units priced at $199 in first year







Apple attempting to trademark the term 'startup' for retail services






Apple TV update adds channels for Vevo, Disney, Weather & Smithsonian







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