Friday - April 17, 2009
Conversation in the Apple-focused blogosphere is all over the map this week, but with Apple in the tech world's driver seat these days, wide-ranging activity is only to be expected. Out of dozens of news nuggets, here are three that create some interesting glimmers: iSuppli's teardown of Apple's diminutive iPod shuffle reveals a tidy profit margin; AT&T reportedly wants to keep its lock on the U.S. iPhone channel; and Apple is offering an $899 iMac -- but only to educational institutions.
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Thursday - March 26, 2009
Michael Gibbs, an illustrator based in Northern Virginia, describes working on a Mac Pro in terms that suggest a Zen-like trance: "I can't explain it well, but you are not even really aware you are using a computer program -- the design applications are that intuitive."
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Wednesday - March 18, 2009
Sales of the Apple iPhone grew faster than any other smartphone on the market in 2008, according to new data from Gartner. Customers bought 11.4 million iPhones last year, up 245.7 percent compared to the 3.3 million iPhones bought in 2007. Apple's share of the global smartphone market grew to 8.2 percent, up from 2.7 percent in 2007.
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Friday - March 6, 2009
Apple's desktop Mac update dominated the conversation in the Apple blogosphere this week. The company put out two press releases and updated its online store with little fanfare, but it was enough to spark posts galore. Meanwhile, might Apple's iPhone Safari mobile browser share be slipping? With its new desktop Macs, Apple basically kept the form factors for its iMac, Mac mini, and Mac Pro the same.
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Wednesday - March 4, 2009
Most of the hubbub out of Apple the past few days has focused on the company's refreshing of its desktop Mac line of personal computers. However, fans of Apple notebooks also got some good news -- the company injected the 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro with faster processing speed, more memory and longer battery life.
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Tuesday - March 3, 2009
Apple has updated its online store and announced new desktop Macs, including a refreshed all-in-one iMac, a new Mac mini, and a revamped professional-grade Mac Pro. Overall, the updates include faster processors, more RAM, bigger hard drives and new graphics processors.
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Monday - December 29, 2008
Most home networks are cobbled together without a lot of forethought about which devices are used to create it. For most, the decision is basically to use whatever their service provider shipped in a cardboard box. Whether they're going for wireless or wired, homeowners often haven't thought through their options.
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Tuesday - December 23, 2008
Way back in 1950, science fiction giant Ray Bradbury wrote a short story, "There Will Come Soft Rains," about a smart house that did just about everything for its resident family -- including cooking breakfast and keeping track of the bills. Unfortunately, all members of that family, along with all inhabitants of the town, were obliterated by a nuclear explosion. The house, though, kept right on going.
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Friday - December 19, 2008
It's been a wild ride this week in the Apple-focused blogging world, thanks to Apple's bombshell statement that CEO Steve Jobs would not be giving his usual wildly anticipated keynote address at Macworld in January. In addition, after 2009's show, Apple itself will make no more appearances. All Apple did was put out a dinky little press release, and boom, the blog traffic erupted in a hot rain of speculation.
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Tuesday - December 16, 2008
Apple is having a rough week. On Sunday, Goldman Sachs downgraded its stock to "neutral" from "buy," citing a poor selling environment. In fact, Apple's desktop sales dropped 38 percent in November, according to research firm NPD Group. Non-Apple desktop sales dropped just 15 percent, it said.
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