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Mobile Wars 2009: Hairy Hands vs. The Fruit Fellas

The game is on, kind readers. Palm has finally released their hotly anticipated Pre with the slick new webOS. Palm isn’t out of the woods yet, though, as Apple Inc. has WWDC 2009 up their sleeves this coming Monday where the 3rd Gen iPhone is slated to be announced. There’s even a rumor that Steve Jobs [...]

ASUS Promotes Mobility Lifestyle With New Site

ASUS has just announced that they have just made their new mobility-specific website, How To Be Mobile, available. Now, it will most certainly contain ASUS materials, but ASUS seems to be pretty magnanimous about their new site and will be posting general mobility stories. One of the first stories already available is How To Install Windows [...]

Impressions Of Windows 7 On A Netbook

Windows 7 Beta running on an Averatec Buddy netbookIf you’ve been reading me for a while you likely already know that I’m not a huge fan of Windows. I’ll admit, I am a huge fan of Windows 2000 which, in my opinion, was the best OS ever made in Redmond. After a few years, Windows XP made my #2 fave of all time Microsoft OS. That’s saying a lot for a dyed in the wool Macintosh guy.

When Vista was announced, it was reveled that Microsoft’s Windows team was yanking features (including WinFS, their new filesystem baby), and then its system requirements, I knew we were in for a rocky road with Microsoft’s obsession with making Windows more Mac-like. I was far from wrong. Vista has turned out to be Microsoft’s least liked OS ever (even less popular than Windows Me, though not nearly as hated as BOB).

Microsoft even stooped to tricking people into liking Vista by showing them Mojave, a tweaked version of Vista. Now, if they’re willing to modify the system to make all references to Vista become Mojave instead, what else were they willing to change… but I digress. I reported here that I would not be upgrading, and for some time I didn’t, but since Microsoft had sent me a press kit with a copy of Vista Ultimate, I couldn’t resist for long.

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Why Apple Is Done With MacWorld

Steve Jobs- Photo: AP/Paul SakumaI think, after much reflection and ruminating, that I have a clear idea of what the problem is for Apple and why Steve Jobs is no longer needing Apple to be as prolific as it has been in the marketplace. Apple announced last month (Dec. 2008) that they would no longer be attending MacWorld shows. I don’t think this is the right choice or the logical choice based on the issues Apple will be facing in the next decade of the Cupertino giant, but I do think Steve Jobs was right to change the way Apple operates.

Apple has reached a point where they are now the defacto name of cool in the technical space. Apple has a cachet which Microsoft never had and it looks like Apple is now trying to capitalize on that. The simple truth is that cool doesn’t carry, and Apple will have to fundamentally modify its strategy to continue to grow. Its become clear that Steve may have figured out that no matter how many moves of the chess pieces he orchestrates, there is no longer anything new Apple can do that will have the Zing Factor of the iPhone.

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Mulling Over The Holidays

Writing articles over the holidays is really, really hard. There’s so much going on and so many things to take care of its hard to buckle down and get done what needs to be done. I could claim here that I’m not making an excuse, but I am. I know how hard it is to stay [...]