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.
When the Miami, Florida-based hackintosh maker hit the scene back April 2008, the company made quite a splash, becoming the first company to openly advertise and sell Apple’s OS X on generic PC hardware. However, like their first computers, the Rebel EFI might charitably be called a work in progress with little in the way of documentation or help available.
It is difficult to tell that Apple and AT&T share a product sometimes, such as when the time rolls around to announce earnings. How can the results of the two companies be so different?
Yes, great artists do steal, but there is an art to larceny. However, watching this video of the opening of Redmond’s Scottsdale, Arizona retail store, seeing how it’s designed, the employees dressed and customers greeted with whoops and high fives leaves one feeling cheapened.
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.
The last time I touched on this subject, I was heading out the door for an extended road trip with the hope of getting a quick Apple Store diagnosis and in-store fix. Those hopes dashed and an utter lack of time left me with a scratchy palm rest for a couple more months, but there is a happy end to this story.
The world is all abuzz with hype about the upcoming release of Windows 7 and some pundits have even gone so far as to predict that Redmond’s “new” operating system will help it claw back market share gains made by Apple’s OS X over the past few years. If past performance is anything to go by, however, Cupertino’s Mac masters have little to worry about.
The Cupertino, California-based Mac, iPod, and iPhone maker has joined five other companies in defecting from the business group over its stand, or lack thereof depending on your viewpoint, on global warming and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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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