At Cafecreate Towers we rather like Apple, well apart from our PC loving web developer, but we heard he killed a dog with his bare hands so you can’t trust his judgement anyway. However, I digress; so we’ve done Apple a lovely advert so they can apologise to Samsung in true Apple style, and hopefully…
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Just like a PC.
I believe a person’s PC is pretty much defined by the apps they utilise beyond the ones that come on it. Two years after the iPad’s debut it’s in that same position. A 16GB WiFI iPad with standard apps is as much “PC” as many people need. A “power user” gets more storage, possibly adds cellular and the Camera Connection Kit, and goes beyond the default apps to add software such as Writing Kit, GarageBand, iWork, Dropbox, Photogene, iThoughtsHD, etc. to meet their personal needs and interests.
I firmly believe Steve Jobs was right that devices like the iPad becoming the goto...
I firmly believe Steve Jobs was right that devices like the iPad becoming the goto device for most people. Source: On iPads and Personal Computers: A Post-PC Retrospective There's been a debate lately as to whether the iPad can fit into the so-called PC category. Following the release of several estimates and market research studies…
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Stephanie Overby of CIO magazine interviews Harvard Business School professors David Pisano and Willy Shih about IT innovation and outsourcing. Gary Pisano, Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor Of Business Administration, Harvard Business School: Just look at what has happened in the mobile communications industry today. A lot of PC companies first gave up manufacturing, and…
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I just got off the phone from speaking with an AT& T customer service representative. We talked for almost 45 minutes about my current data plans on my iPhone 4 and my iPad. Currently, I have an unlimited plan on my iPad. When I first got my iPad, I exhausted the $15/month 250MB data plan…
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I've had an on-line debate with some of my tech savvy Mac colleagues about the iPad 2. I made the statement that I would not be upgrading to the iPad 2 because it did not have any compelling new features that I needed/wanted. My current iPad suits me just fine. I don't play games so…
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The problem was that Microsoft wasn’t selling Windows to Mac users (professional graphic designers and customers seeking a glossy, fun desktop experience on their premium-priced computers); it was supposed to be selling Windows to frumpy PC makers with no interest in flare, no appreciation for aesthetics, and really no desire to do anything but poop…
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Simply put, the iPhone is the first truly ‘personal’ computer; more personal to its owners than the PC ever was. Talk to iPhone owners (not to mention, the 20M iPod Touch owners), and this truth bubbles to the top again and again. iPhone, the ‘Personal’ Computer - Future of the Mobile Web - O’Reilly Broadcast
Click To Read Full PostWhy Windows 7 isn’t competing with Mac OS X Snow Leopard — RoughlyDrafted Magazine
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/08/26/why-windows-7-isnt-competing-with-ma... Microsoft is not anything like Apple. Microsoft almost exclusively licenses its Windows software to PC makers, which are then pitted against each other to sell commodity hardware to consumers. Apple sells a unique, integrated product directly to consumers. In many other market segments however, Macs (and Linux) have both found conformable niches where they…
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Next time I encounter a Microsoft executive tsk-tsking about the onerous “Apple Tax” imposed by a Mac’s needless glitz, I’m tempted to ask him what car he drives—and whether he chose the model with the cloth seats and hand-cranked windows, or one with a few creature comforts. Eight Reasons Your Next Computer Should Be a…
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Apple is known for its savvy marketing, but its campaigns seldom target the enterprise. Its core customer base consists of students, educators, creative professionals, and individual consumers, whom it courts with a brand message that’s equal parts Porsche and Picasso. Far from being a business darling, Apple paints the Mac as the anti-corporate PC: You…
Click To Read Full PostThe myth of the $500 computer
This post started life as an email reply to my bother-in-law. The text of his original email. A few thouths on what you sent out earlier about AAPL and how is makes money. Even at the 120 price the PE ration for Apple is double the others in the market space, so people have high…
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