Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple’s limited comments on Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X due in about a year, have opened the playing field for rampant speculation. Here’s a look at a series of myths that have developed around the upcoming release. The seventh myth of Snow Leopard:
Apple will have to give Snow Leopard away for free if it lacks many marketing features.
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Myths of Snow Leopard 7: Free?!
July 1st, 2008 — Journal, Markets, Mobiles, Software, Tech, the Media
Myths of Snow Leopard 6: Apple is Out of Ideas!
June 27th, 2008 — Journal, Markets, Software, Tech, the Media
Daniel Eran Diler
Apple’s limited comments on Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X due in about a year, have opened the playing field for rampant speculation. Here’s a look at a series of myths that have developed around the upcoming release. The sixth myth of Snow Leopard:
Snow Leopard indicates Apple is out of ideas for new applications and features.
The Street: Steve Jobs Health Fears Key to Our Stock Manipulation Game
June 18th, 2008 — Journal, Markets, the Media
Daniel Eran Dilger
The Street’s Jim Cramer, looking close to imminent death as colleague Farnoosh Torabi watched in concerned horror, recently talked about Steve Jobs’ health in the context of Apple’s future viability as a company. Torabi set up a clever stock manipulation scam conversation with Cramer entitled, “Without Steve Jobs, There is No Apple,” where she introduced her boss by insisting that the iPhone 3G introduction was overshadowed by worries about Jobs’ lack of obesity. “Most of the attention right now is going on the health of the founder and the CEO of Apple!” she intoned.
SproutCore Mailroom Managing Obama’s Presidential Campaign
June 17th, 2008 — Journal, Markets, Software, Tech, the Media
Daniel Eran Dilger
In response to my articles outlining the potential of the SproutCore framework in developing a new type of desktop class web applications, a number of critics have attacked the technology based on poking at some simple demos on the web from odd versions of Internet Explorer or the Camino browser. That forces me to point out that not only has Apple been using SproutCore to drive the slick .Mac Web Gallery for several months, but SproutIt has been using the framework in production in Mailroom, which has been used to manage email for the Obama 2008 presidential campaign.
Myths of Snow Leopard 2: 32-bit Support
June 17th, 2008 — History, Journal, Software, Tech, the Media
Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple’s limited comments on Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X due in about a year, have opened the playing field for rampant speculation. Here’s a look at a series of myths that have developed around the upcoming release. The second myth of Snow Leopard:
Apple is dropping support for 32-bit Intel Macs because Snow Leopard is 64-bit.
Myths of Snow Leopard 1: PowerPC Support
June 16th, 2008 — Journal, Markets, Software, Tech, the Media
Myths of Snow Leopard: 1 PowerPC Support
Apple’s limited comments on Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X due in about a year, have opened the playing field for rampant speculation. Here’s a look at a series of myths that have developed around the upcoming release. The first myth of Snow Leopard:
Apple is dropping support for PowerPC Universal Binaries, so software will dry up for users of PowerPC Macs.
WWDC 2008: iPhone G3 Revealed
June 9th, 2008 — Markets, Mobiles, Software, Tech, the Media
Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple did something nobody expected at WWDC: it managed to keep its new “iPhone 3G” design, features, and price under tight wraps up until Steve Jobs’ keynote today, foiling the efforts of online spies trying to scoop the news on the sequel to the hottest product of 2007. While it was widely expected that Apple would deliver a 3G version of the Phone, the company managed to roll in a couple of other significant surprises that should dramatically reconfigure the expectations of consumers and business users, dramatically expand Apple’s mobile platform audience, and deliver a new wave of justifiable excitement before competitors can even catch up to last year’s phone.
Obama’s Apple, McCain’s Microsoft: the Politics of Tech
May 21st, 2008 — History, Journal, Markets, Tech, the Media
Daniel Eran Dilger
While the United States prepares to elect a new president, candidates on both sides have made interesting comments about their affiliations with tech companies and their perspective on issues facing the tech industry.
Here’s a look at Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain compare, looking first at how each relates to Apple and Microsoft, how corporations are leveraging money and political power to shape public policy to fit their own interests, and followed by a look at each candidate’s stance on issues related to technology.
Mobile EEE PC, UMPC, and Internet Tablets vs the iPhone
May 20th, 2008 — History, Journal, Markets, Mobiles, Software, Tech, the Media
Daniel Eran Dilger
Throughout the 90s, Apple’s increasingly precarious business was hobbled and complicated by the albatross of the Newton. As Apple abandoned the sophisticated but unfinished and ultimately unprofitable platform in early 1998, Palm began selling its wildly popular PDAs while PC makers struggled to copy that success in the mobile market with clumsy WinCE based devices.
Ten years later, PC makers are still failing to understand mobile devices as Apple launches its game changing WiFi mobile platform. Here’s why PC makers will be similarly left behind in their fight against the iPhone in the market for low cost mobile devices.
iTunes’ Content Pricing Not in Crisis
May 15th, 2008 — History, Journal, Markets, Software, Tech, the Media
Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple critics have been working to push the idea that the company’s pricing models in iTunes are in trouble and that HBO’s recent deal to sell shows for $2.99 per episode will cause a stampede toward untenably higher pricing. They’re wrong, here’s why.
