Category: Amusing
November 19, 2009
After receiving a legal snot-o-gram from Baker & McKenzie asking his company to change the name of one its applications so it would no longer contain the word “iPod,” Little App Factory CEO John Devor decided to take matters into his own hands and write Steve Jobs personally. Surprisingly enough the Apple CEO actually responded, though this story doesn’t have a happy ending.
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Posted in Amusing, Apple, Free Software, Mac, Macintosh, OS X, Steve Jobs, iPod, iPod Touch, iTunes, news | 2 Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
November 16, 2009
No one satisfies with vaporware like Apple. This device hasn’t been seen let alone used by anyone, but pundits of every stripe are tripping over each other to declare the Mac tablet, a.k.a. iPod touch on steroids, the next insanely great thing from Steve Jobs and his merry band of elves.
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Posted in Amusing, Apple, Macintosh, Steve Jobs, iPhone, iPod Touch, news, snow leopard | 9 Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
November 12, 2009
Parents arguing in public — it’s just embarrassing and it’s impossible not to feel sympathy for their kids. In this case, it’s the word of a corporate sales guy who made an off-the-cuff remark about Windows 7’s origins and the operating system’s designers now saying those remarks were “inaccurate and uniformed.”
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Posted in Amusing, Apple, Macintosh, Microsoft, OS X, Vista, news, snow leopard | 2 Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
November 11, 2009
You’ve really gotta give Apple and its marketing people credit for always being on message and keeping tight control of what’s said — you just don’t hear faux pas like this from them. Granted, they get caught lying from time to time, but never plumping other companies’ products, especially not Microsoft’s.
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Posted in Amusing, Apple, Mac, Macintosh, Microsoft, OS X, Security, Vista, Windows, news, snow leopard | 2 Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
November 5, 2009
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?
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Posted in Amusing, Announcements, Apple, Steve Jobs, iPhone, iPod, imac, news, opinion | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
November 3, 2009
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.
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Posted in Amusing, Apple, Leopard, Microsoft, OS X, Vista, Windows, news, opinion, snow leopard | 5 Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
October 20, 2009
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.
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Posted in Amusing, Apple, Mac, Macintosh, OS X, Rumors, Steve Jobs, Vista, Windows, imac, news, opinion, snow leopard | 1 Comment » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
October 9, 2009
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.
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Posted in Amusing, Apple, news | 1 Comment » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
October 5, 2009
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.
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Posted in Amusing, Apple, Mac, Macintosh, Vista, Windows, iPhone, iPod Touch, news, opinion | 12 Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
October 2, 2009
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.
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Posted in Amusing, Apple, iPhone | 1 Comment » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson