According to proponents of this myth, a vendor�s market share numbers speak for themselves as a critically important factor in selecting a technology product or platform. They’re wrong, here’s why.
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Month: July 2006
Remember Yonah? It’s the code name for the Intel Core Duo chip found in the iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro and Mac mini, and it will soon play second fiddle to a faster cool chip arriving from Intel: Merom. Merom is “a mobility-optimized, dual-core processor based on the new, state of the art, Intel Core microarchitecture” […]
Remember all the rumors about Apple’s “true video” iPod? The one with the full-screen display and the virtual click wheel that appeared and disappeared as needed? My problem with that concept was something that has been the scourge of the iPod nano – scratches. I originally dismissed the early “all-screen” (or button-less) iPod mockups as […]
Apple yesterday reported a fiscal third-quarter profit that rose 47.5 percent from the same quarter last year on increase iPod and Macintosh sales. Apple experienced the second highest quarterly earnings and revenue in Apple’s history in the third quarter with US$4.37 billion in revenue and 24 percent year over year growth. Apple enjoyed the best […]
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Speck Products MobileTune
Being somewhat of an audiophile (read: snob) I’m not a big fan of FM transmitters for iPods. The sound quality is sub-par and you end up having to hunt for open stations far more often than is safe while driving at 60 MPH. That said, it’s not always possible to have a direct iPod connection […]