Who loves the Apple cofounder? An amazing array of people and organizations have shown their respect and affection for Steve Jobs in a whole host of ways, both expected and some just off the wall. Stamps? Yup. Giant iPhones? We’ve got that, too.
Recently, financial advisors have fallen from the sky to proclaim Lauren Powell Jobs should sell many if not all of the shares Steve Jobs left his family in order to minimize any payable taxes. However, there’s more to life than avoiding taxes and clear value in holding onto to those AAPL an DIS shares.
In case you haven’t heard, Flash may very soon be dead. Adobe has said they won’t develop new mobile versions of their malignant multimedia middleware and the rest of the planet is moving quickly to port their existing web apps, video and animations to the nascent HTML5 standard.
Back in the late ’90s, docking a portable to a keyboard, mouse and display was a pretty slick move. Does anyone still want any such thing in the age of wireless everything? Color me skeptical, but chipzilla’s developing a Thunderbolt-based docking system nonetheless.
Apple’s CEO has been called callous, insensitive and even a serial sociopath. Now, he’s being accused changing Western culture and not for the better. People getting things wrong, becoming shallow and we have a perpetrator to to pin it on.
If for no other reason, Warner Brothers should be punished for naming their UltraViolet playback app “Flixster” — their attempt at cachet smells unmistakably like rotting meat. Seriously, Friendster is dead and Napster isn’t long for this world either. But, that’s just one of UltraViolet’s lesser sins.
HP, Dell and Acer are just a few of the names hurting in these tough times for traditional computer makers. Yes, Hewlett-Packard is still number one and Dell for most the part hangs to number two. However, as old line competitors continue to stumble, Apple’s Macintosh continues to grow and not by just a little.
For years, quite literally, notifications on the iPhone were poorly implemented, disruptive and something of an embarrassment. That changed with the release of iOS 5 and now a clever lad has figured out how to bring some of that goodness back to the Mac.
One way to measure a product’s success is by looking at how many companies are making the same thing — a crowd indicates that folks are at the very least hoping to make money. In the case of Blu-ray playback on the Mac, whereas it would be an overstatement call the field crowded, the number of offerings has just gone up by 100 percent.
The timing of this just wrong. More than six years since the first affected products shipped and three years after the company first formally acknowledged and began fixing the problem in other countries, Apple is spreading the first generation iPod nano replacement program worldwide.
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