I was pleased to encounter Adrian Kingsley-Hughes’ blog posting this evening, “The Slow Demise of the Printer.” Of course many of my readers could read into the title in two ways: an acknowledgement of my frequently noted difficulties at printing companies, or as a note on the decline in the use of desktop printers. You’ll [...]
Steve Job is considered one of the great showmen in the business (showpersons?), and the reputation is, I think, well-deserved. I’ve watched him live many times, and saw that the secret of his success on stage is no accidental talent. As one first hand, in-depth article points out, in U.K.’s The Guardian:
Steve starts his preparation [...]
When we evaluate new technology I believe that the key equation is “push or pull.” It is the rare new technology product released to the public where the reaction is an immediate: “I want that.” I suppose Facebook and Twitter are recent examples of “I want that” being a very common refrain. It certainly didn’t [...]
…except that you can’t use it as a phone (not out of the box, at any rate).
And it’s not really a computer, because it runs on the iPhone OS. So yes, as Steve Jobs pointed out, there are currently 140,000 applications for that OS, but most of them are better described as “applets” rather than [...]
Above is the headline in a tiny article in today’s New York Times.
I reference it because it states what I believe to be true: “Stuck between the still-evolving smartphone and the emerging tablet computer, the netbook computer would seem to be doomed.”
It’s not so much that I necesarily feel that the NetBook is doomed, but I [...]
So much easier to use the title of the article I’m blogging that to think up another title that says the same thing: “The Best of Today’s E-Book Readers” is the name of a brief, superficial and badly-researched article in PC World, published November 2nd.
I note it for two reasons. The first is that the [...]
Fortune Magazine has christened Apple Computer’s CEO, Steve Jobs, as “CEO of the Decade.” You certainly will find no disagreement from this corner.
The Official Steve Jobs Photo from Apple Computer’s web site
You’ll find some great coverage of the man, his career and his products at the link above (reinserted here for the mouse-weary).
People tend to focus [...]
There isn’t a whole lot of data on this ZDNet posting, but the news is larger than the data.
Nokia is showing (off) its first netbook, the Booklet 3G, at a trade show in Germany.
Here’s what I don’t care about the announcement:
there are lots of competing netbooks on the market already
most are significant cheaper than Nokia’s
some [...]
Two very interesting blogs/articles on ZDNet cover a fascinating story from slightly different angles.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes points out something that I never imagined happening in my lifetime: The price of PCs, in particular of netbooks, is dropping so fast that soon the operating system (at least the Windows operating system), threatens to become more expensive than [...]
The Wall Street Journal has just reported that:
“The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an inquiry into Apple Inc.’s disclosures about Chief Executive Steve Jobs’s health, a person familiar with the matter said.
“The inquiry comes after Apple disclosed on Jan. 14 that Mr. Jobs has a “more complex” medical condition than he earlier stated and [...]
