Has Apple Peaked?
You probably think I am out of my mind – well … hm… no comment. But yes I agree it’s close to madness to discuss Apple’s decline right on the heels of a record-breaking iPhone 5 launch and a stock price that despite some correction is still a rocketship. But bear with me for a [...]
Apple margin per device – expressed in Chinese
[Image by Sven Teschke] An article in the New York Times published 2 days ago suddenly gained a lot of traction and got discussed, reposted and reblogged today: Apple making money off of the United States, while directly employing “only” twice as many employees in the US than overseas – but indirectly more than ten [...]
Did Apple finally get hitched?
[Image by Roberta F.] Thanks to Peter Hicks for inspiring me for this title Lately I’ve noticed quite a few complaints regarding the upgrade to Apple’s iOS5. A few examples of that: the upgrade itself failing to complete, having to restore factory settings and lose all apps and files, battery draining like mad, Twitter failing [...]
The Post iPod Era
In my personal version of Toy Story, my iPod plays the role of Woody – a former favorite toy that just can’t compete with the latest technical toys. It is hard to pinpoint when an era begins or ends, but I believe the iPod Era passed. I was an early adopter on the Apple iPod. [...]
Living with iPad
Just before Christmas I joined in with the iPad crowd. The last straw was an XBRL event at ICAEW back in November when 5 of my colleagues who were speaking or supporting Twinfield at the show all had iPads and I didn’t. I started to look seriously at the tablet concept to see how it [...]
An Apple [Fill in the blank]. The New Black?
So…. this morning I got up to make some coffee but realized I forgot to buy some yesterday, No problem. I’ll just walk up the street to my local Starbucks. Its just past the morning rush so its relatively tame…
Innovating Around Restrictions – PlayOn Story
When talking about the capping of data for iPad by AT&T, I argued that such restrictions presents opportunity for others in the market to innovate When AT&T unexpectedly announced its plan to kill the unlimited plan with a spin on the savings for most of their data plan users, many in the tech blogosphere were [...]
Turn your IPod, Iphone or soon the Ipad into a hacker system
For all the complaints against apple for making it hard to get an application registered and sold in the Apple store, there are some very cool applications that can be used to set up your Iphone or other apple Iphone OS based system into an excellent scanning and pseudo hacker tool. These are the products [...]
Apple iPad and the Radical Innovation of Meaning
Ultimately, the iPad is a large iPod touch: a great device to draw your inspiration from, but perhaps not the seismic shift in technology that we were expecting. Claudine Beaumont, Apple iPad review, The Telegraph The much anticipated announcement of Apple’s iPad tablet was met with a resounding…”ho hum” or worse from much of the [...]
Is the iPad a big iPod or is it the new Newton?
The first thing I’ve got to say is the title of this post was supplied in a tweet from Alan Patrick (@freecloud), but it perfectly encapsulates the controversy going on in the geek world around the new Apple tablet device announced on Wednesday. Is it going to be as successful and “game changing” like the [...]
