Apple
Is multi-touch on a PC a good thing?
Yesterday, I posted about the touch feature in Windows 7. Apple had already added touch features to its iPod Touch and iPhone. The latest versions of MacBooks also have multi-touch functions added to the touch pad. Personally, I have always disliked touch pads and the new trend to touch leaves me uninterested. Mary Jo [...]
Apple earnings approach Microsoft
Recently released financial numbers for Apple and Microsoft were an eye-opener, at least for me. The Apple Insider reports:
While Microsoft executives like to talk about Apple as an insignificant company with less than 5% of the worldwide market share of all PCs and servers sold, the Mac maker now has more cash than Microsoft and [...]
Reviews of the new MacBook
Although most readers are Windows users, I think it’s worthwhile to put in an occasional post on Macs. Apple just came out with a new line of MacBooks and there are two reviews I will mention. The first is from Walter Mossberg and is oriented to the less technical reader. Mossberg concludes:
All in all, though, [...]
New line of Apple laptops
There’s been a lot of rumors going around about a new line of Apple laptops, including talk of a lower priced entry. Today, Steve Jobs made the formal presentation unveiling the new products. A 13″ MacBook is now available for $999. There are a number of ZDNet blogs about the new line; references are here.
About Windows bundled apps
The news mentioned yesterday about certain previously built-in applications being optional in Windows 7 has sparked some general appraisal of Windows’ bundled applications by Adam Pash at Lifehacker. Pash doesn’t think too highly of the apps included in Windows and compares them unfavorably with the many Apple applications that come with the Mac. Pash writes:
Microsoft [...]
Trying to shine up Windows Vista
Microsoft is trying to do something about Vista’s somewhat tarnished reputation with a new advertising campaign. Personally, I would rather that Steve Ballmer put the $400 $300 million that is supposedly being spent on this campaign into making Windows better. But Ballmer began his career in advertising so we are getting TV commercials with the [...]
Can the Mac gain more market share?
At Ars Technica, Don Reisinger writes an analysis of How Apple can gain significant OS market share. He begins:
Apple’s unprecedented success over the past few years has propelled the company from its place as just another tech company to the most respected brand in the entire industry. But for all its success, it’s still [...]
Apple ups and downs
In many ways Apple has been on a roll. The iPhone has made a big splash. Mac computers are selling better than ever before. The market value of its stock recently exceeded that of Google. However, Apple has also had some fiascoes. Writing at the New York Times, John Markoff comments:
But there have also been [...]