When was the last time, we had a businessman — not some person of privilege born to wealth — as president? Maybe never. I rather doubt Apple CEO Steve Jobs, assuming he’s even healthy enough, would want the job, but we really need a man of vision right about now.
As these things go, Microsoft Office 2011 and OS X 10.7 seem to play fairly well together, though there are issues and Redmond’s promising fixes. Step inside for a quick look at what the problems as they are and who’s like to be affected.
Trouble with Verizon? Cupertino could buy the carrier and still have plenty of cabbage left to take New York City to Disney World for a couple weeks. Or, Steve Jobs could, assuming federal regulators would let him, just acquire all of the U.S. wireless carriers and still not scrape bottom.
If you made this stuff up, it wouldn’t be more ridiculous. How many steps does it take to set up — go ahead, take a guess — a Windows XP or Vista machine on McDonald’s free Wi-Fi? Even the most jaded Windows hater will be shocked at how profligate Redmond’s apologists really are.
By now it’s become a mantra — a successful backup strategy includes the original plus local and off-site backups. Carbonite is the best known if not best selling commercial off-site file backup and restoration solution. Sadly, it’s not Lion compatible and, worse still, the company didn’t tell anyone until the operating system actually shipped.
Creamy smooth Cocoa goodness percolating with 64-bit fluidity across the taste buds of my digital palette. Whereas Apple says this update is Lion-specific — i.e. fullscreen mode, gesture navigation — the company could have delivered Cocoa and 64-bit many moons ago.
On the heels of yesterday’s record quarterly results, the mothership is rolling a host new product and it’s a killer line up. Whereas the hoped across-the-board price reductions didn’t happen, pretty much all of the other rumors have come true as Apple delivers Sandy Bridge, Thunderbolt and even new displays.
And, the iPad and iPhone are leading the way. In addition to iPhone unit volume growth of 142, the company sold 183 percent more iPads, more than twice the number of Macs sold overall and more than twice the number of Macs sold into education.
For the rest of us, especially those that don’t get tech news printed on dead trees, that Apple-branded computers clean up year after in this particular magazine’s Reader Choice awards is more than a little ironic. Elitist snark aside, Macs are nevertheless “personal computers” and all of the other awards for Apple’s other products are, well, sauce for the goose.
The rumors had just everything right about the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and MacBook Air except, of course, the date. Obviously, Apple shipped nothing new yesterday, but fresh whispers from “sources” say new stuff is coming and it will land late next week.
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