As Apple rolls into what looks to be yet another record setting holiday shopping quarter, on the heels of the company’s most profitable quarter ever, giving an accolade to the man who’s listed by name among the patent and trademark docs for the iMac, iPod and iPhone seems a safe bet. Shallow praise for the father of the Jesus phone?
Geez Louise this has gotta sting and more than a little. To date, two of the more prominent Web metrics firms have pegged Microsoft’s operating system launch somewhere between good for Apple and the Mac, to better than Vista. So much for a holiday home run for Redmond this Christmas shopping season.
The world beyond the 1 Infinite Loop woke this morning with visions of ultra-thin iMacs dancing in their heads, but Apple has left us guessing once again. Thereupon, with Microsoft to set begin its Vista SP4 Windows 7 assault, Steve Jobs and his merry band of deviants have already disrupted Redmond’s best laid plans by doing nothing.
Apparently the graphics chipmaker isn’t liking how things were going and decided to pull out a few chairs for its customers at the negotiating table, currently a court in Delaware. Although Intel probably has the power to shape the industry as it chooses, the company must now do so much more publicly.
Apple’s share of the enterprise market has stalled south of 10 percent and, although worth billions, it probably won’t be growing in any big way any time soon. The villains? Corporate IT departments, of course, which can’t see the dollars for the cents, which is the argument of old — Macs cost too much and are too much trouble.
This is one of those stories that just makes you doubt humanity’s future. Although the gun toting “villain” in this report lacked, shall we say, an appropriate measure of tact given the suburban setting he was in, you’ve gotta shake your head a little at the Apple Store employees who just kept the ball rolling.
Store personnel say that there’s little they can do to prevent little Suzy or Johnny from being potentially exposed to graphic representations of the very acts that were part or parcel of their conception. The hand wringing mother in question is shocked and demands the company implement a nanny policy.
First things first. We need to be clear that these aren’t the droids you’re looking for and that you don’t want to sell me any death sticks. Now, before you go home to reconsider your life, let me show you a neat little piece of software you can use to remotely control your Mac and do it very fashionably at that.
For whatever reason, Apple didn’t include that latest version of Flash, which is dated July 17, 2009, in its initial release of Snow Leopard. Fabulous new features to deliver interactive Web features in exciting new ways? Hardly. Just the latest security patch, one of a dozen so far this year alone.
If a deal seems to good to be true, especially if it involves giving the unaware Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 crown jewels, then it probably comes with a malware payload. But, hey, it’s the early 21st Century and people should already know this stuff, right?
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