Apple
How the PC began and Xerox lost an unprcedented opportunity
The way the PC is set up today is a very old concept. Windows is 25 years old but the basic design for the PC goes back further to the early work done at the Stanford Research Institute and the Xerox PARC lab in Palo Alto, California. The story of how Xerox could have been [...]
About some mobile devices
Are you curious about what some of the new smartphones look like? CNET has a gallery of photos of some of the latest offerings.
Also from CNET is a new FAQ about the Apple iPad, which is scheduled to appear in early April.
Is the iPad the model of a consumer PC?
The blogosphere continues to echo with posts about the iPad. One interesting theme is the idea that the iPad is the long-needed computer appliance for Everyman. Here’s a sample:
Apple reinventing file access, wireless sharing for iPadApple Insider writes, “…Apple’s new iPad jettisons the conventional shared file system and introduces a new, streamlined convention for [...]
Reliability and service ratings
PC World has published the results of its annual reader’s survey of service and reliability. In the laptop category Apple, followed by Toshiba, gets the best marks. At the bottom are HP and Dell. HP is at the bottom of the desktop ratings as well. It’s a sad situation when the top two American OEMs [...]
Apple iPad frenzy broke the Internet
The mass frenzy before, during, and after the announcement of the iPad was bad enough as an indication of the paucity of ideas in the blogosphere. Even scarier was the fact that all the activity brought down significant chunks of the Internet. I couldn’t get on ZDNet or some other sites to do some [...]
The Apple iPad
For weeks, incredible numbers of electronic bits have been consumed by stories on the rumored Apple tablet computer. No one knew for sure what Apple was going to come up with but that didn’t keep the blogosphere from being jammed with post after post full of guesses and useless commentary. All sorts of speculation about [...]
Apple and Google as enemies?
Unlike Microsoft’s early bare-knuckle, no-holds-barred approach to other companies, Google maintained a pretty friendly relation with many in the tech industry as it grew. For example, there was a lot of collaboration with Apple. Google CEO Eric Schmidt was even on the Apple board of directors until recently. Google was also a big supporter of [...]
Is the smartphone the new general purpose platform?
There is an ongoing discussion about whether the conventional consumer PC may be be supplanted by smartphones. For many, the smartphone provides all the functions that they need and its mobility is an essential advantage. In less-developed countries, the lower cost is also a key factor. To what extent devices like the iPhone will become [...]
Alternative to QuickTime player
Unless you like to play files from an iPod on your PC or use iTunes, you probably will not need to have the full-blown QuickTime package from Apple on your computer. For the occasional video on the Web that uses Apple formats, a much smaller (and possibly more secure) application is QT Lite:
QT Lite [...]
Did Apple blow a golden opportunity?
When Microsoft was struggling with the poor reception for Vista, poor search market share, security holes, and other problems, Apple made some inroads on Windows. However, several observers have written that Apple failed to really take advantage when Microsoft was in a hole. Now with Windows 7 revitalizing Microsoft, they say the chance to [...]
Windows 7 borrowed from the Mac?
A small ruckus broke out when Simon Aldous, partner group manager at Microsoft, acknowledged that the design of Windows 7 had drawn on some inspiration from the Mac. In an interview at PCR, Aldous said:
One of the things that people say an awful lot about the Apple Mac is that the OS is fantastic, that [...]
