It has been a long long time since I read a great meaningless article. Thanks to David Coursey of PCWorld for posting an article titled "Apple's iPhone and iPod Monopolies must go." The write up accuses Apple for playing evil monopoly with their iPhone and iPod touch.
Has Apple directly or indirectly forced any one of you to purchase the iPhone or the iPod touch? No. We did that on our own whims and fancies. Most of us see butterflies the moment we hear about new Apple products. Mind you, Apple products never bring insomnia due to malfunctioning. They are always Read More...
To say the least; we all know Apple is the number one company that can keep secrets buried till the final day; Microsoft on the other hand thinks that secrets are too sacred to be concealed.
WWDC 2009, the expected time for the launch of the new iPhones is just days away now and we are yet to know anything concrete about the device(s) except rumors. Fall of 2009 is comparatively miles away, we know what Microsoft would be doing then.
Microsoft has officially announced that the company would renovate their Zune into something modern. All the clunky buttons are going away Read More...
The Mac and PC war would go on and the creative advertisements too would continue coming one after the other. You'll see PC ads featuring Sara, Tom, Harry, etc hunting for the best, cheapest and most affordable machines and buying windows machines. Apple would go on smirking at those ads and also hi back at the right time.
This time around Apple is exposing PC weak points. The latest Apple Mac ads ridicules PC for being slow and so vulnerable to viruses and malwares. The ad titled "Elimination" features a serpentine queue of people representing PCs, who all walked away slowly when labelled Read More...
Apple is really becoming over confident looking at the way they are stacking up the best of brains. It ain't chip designers and makers alone that Apple is amassing, Richard Teversham Senior Director: Xbox Business, Insights and Strategy. Interactive Entertainment Division at Microsoft Xbox has stepped down to join Apple. Now, I am at lost of words to say what the heck is Apple planning and what surprises are in store for Apple fans with this new recruitment.
The resignation if Teversham ends his 15 long years of tryst with Microsoft. At Apple he would be dealing with things related to Read More...
What is good for Jobs could be bad for Ballmer and vice versa. The latest development could however, be good for both. Andrew reported that Apple is in talk with Verizon to launch two new products somewhere in 2010. Seems Apple is not the only one eying for the big red company, Microsoft is also in the fray having serious talks to use the network operator as a means to take down the iPhone.
If this is true (if you only believe in whatever crap Wall Street Journal says), I should say it's time for the losers to rise and fight the Read More...
Apple has just posted new 'Get a Mac' ads possibly as response to the recent PC ad campaigns. The ads feature the same Mac and PC characters verbally attacking each other and pointing out their positive attributes at the same time.
In the ad titled 'Biohazard Suit' PC character explains to Mac that he is wearing a biohazard suit to stay free from the recent viruses attacking Windows.
In 'Stacks' PC is rummaging in stacks of printed photos to find a particular photo, Mac then suggest how easy it is to find photos in iPhoto '09. PC says something about extra cost Read More...
App Store download is nearing a billion mark and all of us accept that Apple has done a great service to both customers and developers launching the online store. This is one stop for all to market and to purchase iPhone and iPod touch applications. The App Store concept is now being copied by many rival companies. BlackBerry App World of RIM, Microsoft has their own plan, Android application store and Palm also have the same plan to launch their own stores.
However, here is a new bold and rather strange replication, SK Telecom, one of the dominant mobile carriers in Read More...
Let's say Apple and Microsoft are keen to change their strategies of advertising about their products. Kicking each other on the shin has somewhat stopped. Most recent ads reflect something different.
The latest PC ad features Giampaolo hunting for a laptop on a $1500 budget. In the ad, Giampaolo goes into Apple Store, check out the Macs and said that the product is "so sexy." However, he doesn't purchase the Mac saying he don't want to pay for the brand but want to pay for the computer.
Well, the word "sexy" may be interpreted in many ways, but to me it implies Read More...
Developer name: Salvador Ponticelli
Developing Since:2008
Company Name:Sponticelli.com
Apps at the App Store:3
Location:Montreal,Canada
About Dev:
Tell us a little about you, and your current company.
I'm a System Engineer who graduated in 2000 from Simon Bolivar University (Venezuela). In 2004 I moved to Canada and the same year, I tried to start my own company to develop software for PocketPC. However, I didn't have much money and as a new immigrant it was quite difficult to get a credit to start a new company. So, I dropped the idea for a while and I started working as a full time employee as a C#.NET developer.
Today I Read More...
In hard times like this recession, it is risky for companies to experiment with innovative ideas. To replicate what has worked is always the safest path rather than spend a fortune in experimenting and find out later that the whole idea is a total flop. That is what analysts suggest. Buyers are also less open to untested gadgets when the pocket is near dry. The iPhone has been received so well and has accounted for more than 50% of smartphone sales, so smartphone manufacturers are in some way or the other replicating the features of the iPhone.
Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Read More...
In what can be termed as unethical, we’ve delved too deep into what is personal lately. Talking about Steve Jobs’ health has become as important as watching the performance of the stock market every evening. That’s sad! Adding more to this, we’ve also read Jobs' Obituary, which was published accidentally few months back. Every time we talk about Steve Jobs, Apple’s market share tumbles. Are we trying to tear down Apple?
There was much fuss when the Apple icon took 6 months break leaving his tasks to Tim Cook. People started talking more about Steve Jobs. Surprise appearance of Steve Jobs Read More...
The day has come! Barrack Obama is finally going to replace George W Bush as the 44th President of the United States. We would now be in the hands of a less offensive, but tech savvy President. RIM, the maker of the BlackBerry series is about to lose someone who had been faithful to BlackBerry; the new president is restricted to use his BlackBerry for security concerns.
Tim Cook is heading Apple in the Absence of Steve Jobs. Bill Gates was not there at the CES 2009 like the way Jobs skipped the Macworld Expo 2009. Yahoo finds replacement for its Read More...
