Charges have surfaced in Asia, specifically South Korea, that Apple is using its superior market position to unfairly influence the availability and thus the price of NAND flash memory.
Retailers around the nation have reported brisk Thanksgiving Weekend sales largely on the back steep discounts and heavy promotion. However, our favorite countercyclical fruit company apparently has done very well indeed without heavy advertising or deep price cutting.
More than a year-and-a-half later, not to mention endless sturm und drang, and what does PsyStar have to show for its efforts? The company is likely facing a permanent injunction barring them from their primary business and over $2 million in damages though it made less than 800 computers running Mac OS X.
When Apple shipped an updated version of its most-affordable computer back in October, it said that the Mac mini is the world’s most efficient desktop. Now, there’s independent confirmation of that from a U.K. group that’s compared 100 systems and found all but Apple’s wanting, as well as affirmation of the high efficiency of the company’s laptop offerings.
After a breaking in period when these tools were only available to big studio artists, the mothership has, as promised, opened its new iTunes album and movie platform to any and all comers. More importantly, Apple has now opened another new front in its ongoing war with Adobe to displace Flash with open web standards, such as HTML 5 and Javascript.
Apple continues its retail invasion of Asia with an iPhone thrust into South Korea, where it has long been held at arms length by a bevy of technical regulations, now relaxed.
Another day, another measure of just how dominant the Macintosh is despite the fact that its overall market share hovers somewhere around 10 percent in the U.S. Whereas the other members of the Top 5 — Dell, HP, Acer and Toshiba — slug it out to maintain volume at just a few hundred dollars per unit, Apple is taking the lion’s share of revenue and profits.
If you have a new iMac with a 27-inch display (and it is not broken) you can use it as a display for other devices, and a new Apple support document tells you how to avoid possible pitfalls.
In the wake of federal judge’s summary judgment in their favor, Apple’s legal beagles have now filed motions requesting that PsyStar be permanently barred from cloning Macs and pay $2.1 million. Perhaps this will be the final chapter in this nearly two-year-long soap opera.
You’ve gotta wonder what rocket scientist came up with this idea. Microsoft has paid big bucks to a put a monitor displaying a live Twitter feed in a Saks Fifth Avenue window and you can add your message of [Mac] holiday joy, too.
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