Perhaps after a year in the market they—Ives, Cook, Forstall, Jobs et all—expected there would be some real competition in the smart phone / ultra-portable computer market segment. Actually, there is a close substitute for the iPhone, but it doesn’t come from RIM, Nokia, Google or even Microsoft. Apple’s closest competitor in this space is Apple and the closest substitute for the iPhone is not a phone at all—it is the iPod touch.
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For anyone who still thinks the rest of us are just like everyone else, think differently. Toyota’s rolling out a new car in Europe, Holland to be specific, and they are marketing it online with the aid of a video and laptop screen saver application. Windows people? They are just not in the (marketing demographic) picture.
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While the rest of the MacBook line was upgraded over the last couple of months, the base model was left as-is. That has now changed, with enhancements being made, but with the $999 price remaining the same.
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You just gotta have a new Mac right now and you are seriously cheesed that it doesn’t include iLife ’09? Well, Apple has kind of, sort of got your back and it won’t break the bank to hold them to it.
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The app store is filling up with apps, with more being added every day. Meanwhile, more and more developers are getting interested in developing business apps for the iPhone platform.
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Tim Cook, Apple’s temporary man at the helm, is a workaholic and perfectionist. He’s already transformed the company in a multitude of ways—quietly behind the scenes—but now his role is about maintaining an incredibly successful status quo.
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Steve Wozniak has spoken out for the first time in the media about his Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ health and what it might mean for the Cupertino company.
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If you are an iPod owner, you know that many things can happen to make you need to move your music from one iPod to another. You could get a new model of iPod and no longer have your old computer. You could get a second iPod to keep in the car. You could get your kids an iPod. Whatever the reason, the need to move files from one to the other comes up now and then. So how do you do it?
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This series of posts has followed a veteran PC Windows business user through his move to OS X on a MacBook Pro. This final column in the series recaps final thoughts on the move.
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In this saga of one business user moving from a PC on Windows to OS X on a MacBook Pro, we have come to the critical day. Today, everything necessary to work moves from the PC to the Macbook.
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