Posts from — September 2007

Daniel Eran Dilger
How long will Apple continue to support existing models of Macs in the latest version of Mac OS X? Previous versions of Apple’s OS have drawn the line for officially supported Macs based on practical considerations, rather than just being arbitrary or artificial. Here’s what the past suggests for Mac OS X Leopard and the version that comes after it.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Daniel Lyons is the author of the Fake Steve Jobs blog and a columnist at Forbes. After developing a reputation for attacking bloggers, open source, and any alternatives to Microsoft, Lyons has shed his skin to escape from one scandal while at the same time squirming into position to choke the truth out of his next victim: Apple.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
After the European Court of First Instance upheld its antitrust decision against Microsoft, professional Windows Enthusiasts all worked to spin Microsoft’s setback as bad news for Apple. They hoped and prayed Apple might be similarly restricted by the EU courts–but immediately, rather than after ten years of deliberation as was the case with Microsoft.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Forbes, best known to many readers as the soapbox Daniel Lyons used to promote–perhaps unwittingly–a pro-Microsoft agenda backing SCO and vilifying Linux and open source, has taken another opportunity to present outrageously false information serving the interests of Microsoft: an impassioned outcry of rage over the success of iTunes.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
In response to the article “BBC Prints Irresponsible Rubbish on Apple,” Bill Thompson wrote me explaining that he didn’t like being called out on his errors. However, he failed to explain how he was accurate in his rambling diatribe assailing Apple as equal to Microsoft in anticompetitive, market monopolizing behavior.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
The BBC has joined the London tabloid press in printing a series of articles skewering Apple over invented suppositions based entirely upon misinformed speculation and some outright lies. The worst part is that the BBC is being grossly hypocritical in its misinformation campaign against Apple, because the company is up to its eyeballs in the Microsoft-encrusted scandal surrounding its proprietary, Windows-only iPlayer imbroglio.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
It’s not just the American media that is desperate to publish misleading or downright false information in attempts to prevent the erosion of existing barriers to innovation. The release of the iPhone in the UK touched off a flurry of snide reporting worthy of being Zooned.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
IBM’s announcement of the new Lotus Symphony suite is an interesting turn of events because it signals a revenge strike against Microsoft’s Office hegemony. It is particularly interesting that it is based on OpenOffice, allowing IBM to pair the support of the industry and community backing the open source suite with its own position in the Enterprise with Lotus Notes.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Randall Stross tried to explain in the New York Times that Apple is bungling its limited window of opportunity to sell Macs as Microsoft recovers from its Windows Vista retail sales flop. In doing so, he had to rely on overly broad generalizations, ignore well known retail realities, and violate the Times’ ban on interviewing Microsoft’s weaselly shills.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Can a 6.5mm thin device really deliver a usable Keynote presentation on a TV? Why doesn’t the iPod Touch offer a hard drive option? Is the Touch really an ‘iPhone without the phone’? Is the new iTunes WiFi Store usable? I did a series or reviews for AppleInsider ferreting out the details on Apple’s new iPod lineup to find out.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Scott Woolley of Forbes tried his best to paint Apple TV as a colossal failure, but his article is based on supposition and false comparisons, and demonstrates he doesn’t know much about the video distribution industry he writes about.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
There is obvious interest in iPhone development, and users of the device have good reason to demand a vibrant software ecosystem growing up around it. There are a lot of applications Apple doesn’t have the time or inclination to deliver, but which would greatly increase the value of the phone and subsequently expand sales. Apple needs third party help.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
While I’m no huge fan of the “all singing, all dancing” mobiles that announce every incoming call by belting out a section of a song–particularly since they tend to use songs that I don’t want stuck in my mind for the next hour–ringtones are extremely popular and a big money business, so they’re not going away anytime soon.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
“Six Reasons Why Apple May Never Open the iPhone” outlined the rationale behind the strategy driving Apple’s software plans for its new mobile. At the same time, it’s important to take a reasonable appraisal of the iPhone’s supposedly closed nature. While Apple is unlikely to open up the iPhone in the same sense as the Mac anytime soon, it is already an open platform in ways that matter.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Silicon Alley Insider’s Dan Frommer says Apple’s announcement of reaching its million mark goal in iPhone sales three weeks early is actually bad news for Apple and is convolutedly “below plan.” He also says the announcement only props up the speculative conjecture by Scott Moritz of the Street that Apple’s iPhones sales are somehow woefully below expectations. They’re wrong, here’s why.

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