For the long-time Mac user, the recent plague of Steve Jobs and Apple retrospectives are both entertaining and a little disturbing. How? Well, Steve Jobs legacy is settling into a sort of orthodoxy, with not a little blinkered revisionism. Also, because the Apple chairman isn’t talking, the dominant narrative is that Jobs will soon pass into history.
Hewlett-Packard’s webOS-based TouchPad is dead already. Motorola, even after repeated price cuts, has yet to sell its millionth Xoom. Samsung’s had some limited success in the market, but has been battered in the courtroom, while Microsoft and its partners won’t deliver an iPad competitor until next year.
Another month, another injunction (or whatever they’re called in Oz). Apple and Samsung appeared in a Sydney court today and were told to get their cases together. Thereupon, whatever the ultimate outcome of Cupertino’s legal attempts to bar the Galaxy Tab down under, they’ve at least achieved another temporary victory.
Apple has been on the receiving of geek grief and angst for suing competitors over use of its App Store trademark. Whereas the technorati argue the term should be viewed as generic and ubiquitous, they miss the obvious point that it was Apple who made it that way. And, yeah, they own it, too.
Everyone’s been busy writing Steve Jobs’ obituary, but a careful reading of yesterday’s news out of Cupertino reveals that the tech visionary isn’t going anywhere just yet. Mac.Blorge noted yesterday that Jobs has been named chairman of the board and, unless that’s now a ceremonial post, he’ll be around (and then some).
The day so many of us have dreaded is here. In a nutshell, Apple co-founder and CEO is leaving the company because he can no longer fulfill his duties. Thereupon, given his long fight with cancer, the transplant and ongoing medical leave from the company, there’s really only one conclusion to jump to here.
Bean counters, or at least those that estimate bean counts, are saying Mac sales jumped by more than a quarter last month and Apple looks set to deliver record quarterly unit volume numbers. The interesting twist is that the mothership didn’t ship its new OS and Mac models until the end of the month.
So, introducing a touch based desktop operating system, killing the mouse and dropping the optical drive for Internet only software distribution while introducing industry changing hardware designs at competition crushing prices isn’t radical enough? And, we haven’t even started talking about the iPad yet.
Why do dogs, you know, do that thing that dogs do? Because they can. Why do Microsoft, Lenovo and generally every tech company doing business in Australia charge hundreds more down there than in their home markets? Apple might not be the biggest offender, but is easily the most obvious.
Apple’s two-year-old smartphone still outsells the great majority of newer, better, faster whatever Android phones — really. Recently, AT&T and various retailers have made waves with cheap refurbs and zero net trade in programs. Now, the biggest U.S. electronics reseller is expected to give them away come Monday morning.
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