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The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend

friendMicrosoft and Apple should hate one another right now. I mean, really hate each other. After decades of domination, Microsoft has watched their rival move from death's door to become the most valuable company in the world — over $200 billion

Surprise! OS X Mountain Lion Roars Into Existence (For Developers Today, Everyone This Summer)

ml2Confirmed: Apple can still surprise. On July 20 of last year, Apple began a journey. With OS X Lion (aka OS X 10.7), the company started taking some of what they had learned from iOS, and the iPad specifically, putting in their more...

Retina Ready: Apple’s New Year’s Resolution?

Screen Shot 2012-02-09 at 4.15.00 PMIn a few weeks, Apple will unveil the next generation iPad, John Packowski of AllThingsD confirms today. If history (and carrier code) is any indication, it should go on sale shortly after that. Maybe even just...

The Day Apple Left The Tech World’s Collective Mouth Agape

Screen Shot 2012-01-25 at 7.07.09 PM$46.33 billion in revenue. It's a number the biggest and best tech companies in the world can only dream to hit in a year. Apple hit it in one quarter. $13.06 billion in profit. It's a number...

Apple Just Incentivized Every College Kid To Get An iPad. As For High Schoolers…

aAs I watched Apple's iBooks event in New York City last week, my mind began to race about the ramifications of such announcements. Everyone had a pretty good idea for weeks (or months if you read the Steve Jobs biography) that textbooks would be...

Just A Friendly Reminder: If You Sold Your Apple Stock In October, You Were, In Fact, An Idiot

Screen Shot 2012-01-07 at 3.18.16 PMOn October 19 of last year I wrote a post entitled: If You Sold Your Apple Stock Today, You're An Idiot. Because their Q4 numbers missed Wall Street expectations, Apple's stock dropped over 5 percent...

For The 5th Year In A Row, Apple Wins CES. Before It Starts. Without Showing Up.

Screen Shot 2012-01-05 at 5.45.35 PMAre you ready for CES? I know I am. The PR emails are flowing in and I'm going to respond to every single one of them. I can't wait to hear about Samsung's social media stuff. And...

Apple’s Terrific And Tumultuous 2011

118931_Papel-de-Parede-Apple-Logo-Colorido_1920x1200It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... Those words seem to encapsulate Apple's 2011 perfectly. The year saw the company both became the most valuable company in the world and lose its founder, savior, visionary, and leader. Earlier, Erick...

Why Hasn’t Safari Skyrocketed Like Chrome Has?

Apple_SafariThe past few days, there's been a lot of talk about web browsers. The report that Google will be paying Mozilla close to one billion dollars over the next three years to ensure that their search engine remains the default for...

Mark It Down: June 6, 2012

Screen Shot 2011-12-09 at 2.39.58 AM"Six months from now you'll say the opposite. Because ultimately applications vendors are driven by volume. And the volume is favored by the open approach that Google is taking." That was Google Chairman Eric Schmidt speaking at...

The Promise Of The 15-Inch MacBook Air

Screen Shot 2011-11-28 at 6.27.37 PMIn my home office sits a 27-inch iMac with a secondary 24-inch LED Cinema Display attached to it. It's a glorious vision of screen real estate. And yet, I dread using it. First world problem? It's perhaps the definition...

Apple May Have Won The PC War… By Losing The Windows Battle

0ipad2rev10What exactly is a PC? That question is likely to become a hot topic over the next few years. Originally, we thought of PCs as the Apple II or then the IBM PC. They were machines that had to sit on a desk because,...