The promise has been long, the first preview was delivered at the end of 2008, and will (the usual caveats aside) be delivered. As Apple’s third generation handsets, not to mention the Palm Pre bite sales, this move seems a little too little and not a little too late.
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Microsoft released the second service pack for Office 2008 for the Mac saying it includes better Mac browser support, improved speed and stability, and better collaboration tools.
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There are a number of truisms about the Cupertino, CA-based Mac, iPod and iPhone maker. Unfortunately for the denizens of 1 Infinite Loop, these don’t include high wages or reasonable working hours.
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Apple is scheduled to release their quarterly earning statements early next week. Market analysts are reviewing their crib sheets and renewing their estimates, which are mainly on the bullish side.
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With the experts all over the map, predicting both rising and falling sales, it will be good to settle the matter with finality. Moreover, in these slow months of Summer, when there’s almost zero probability of any new products, it will be good to have something substantive to write about.
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Official research company opinions differ on how well or how poorly Apple is doing in the PC marketplace. Gartner says they are going great guns while IDC says they are going in the tank.
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Back in the ’90s, Microsoft nearly flattered Apple to death with its imitations of the Cupertino, CA-based company’s Macintosh operating system. Today, as Apple’s innovative computers, media players and smartphones increasingly dominate, Redmond’s ham-fisted efforts to keep up seem tired and sadly misdirected.
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One columnist has made the statement that the Apple App Store represents an evil monopoly and now it seems that everyone else is climbing on the bandwagon to let the world sell iPhone apps.
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When the one-time smartphone leader told the world that its hot, new handset synced seamlessly with Apple’s iTunes — which owns the critical digital music jukebox segment — it was just a question of when and not if Apple would shut them down. Now that Apple’s pulled the plug, what will Palm’s next move be?
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For years, there were three truisms you could count on, death, taxes and that PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak was good for at least one troll hole, link bait, piece o’ offal every month. Whether it was to boost his pageviews or just to enjoy watching the Mac fan boys squirm and squeal, he was so regular you could almost set your watch by him.
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