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Nokia vs. Apple: the in-depth analysis {Engadget}
Oct 29th 2009 7:14PM Good article! I am sorry I immediately bought into the if you can't win, sue hype - it seemed so logical. But only if you have no clue about the sleazy world of patent trolls and "standards" bodies.
To me, it sounds like patent hoarding is what these companies do in those standards meetings. They try to one-up one another, which may or may not work very well. But what it's very effective at achieving is leaving any new up and coming would-be competitors out to dry.
In a better world, governments would demand all standards be free of patent claims - if you use a tech that's part of a standard you should be indemnified against patent claims pertaining to the same standard. Likewise, if you supply technology as part of a standard, you should have to give up any patent claims on that technology. In my world, governments would not approve a standard (like GSM) unless it's free.
But we don't live in a better world, it's more like the mafia slicing up a neighborhood. Joe gets this, Ricco that, and if anyone new comes in, we all start shooting. In that world, a new player can enter only by force.
Apple has not yet forked over the cash because if they did, Motorola and all the others in "the family" would stand in line to get their protection money. Apple is checking its own guns, namely its own huge pile of patents. It has hundreds of iPhone patents, lots of iPod patents, and a mountain of old software patents. It's going to cherry-pick 10 really strong ones and counter-sue Nokia.
New unibody MacBook loses two ports {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 20th 2009 9:34PM yah, it's like the death of vinyl. remember vinyl?
New unibody MacBook loses two ports {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 20th 2009 9:32PM Mac forums and sites like these are the only places where people even know what Firewire is, let alone care about it.
It was once exciting, but now it's just old technology that needs to go away. With Apple pulling support, Firewire peripherals will disappear quite suddenly too, in fact I'd be surprised if any company made a new FW peripheral in the past year.
New unibody MacBook loses two ports {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 20th 2009 9:30PM I want to second Rob. Apple needs more netbooks. Like Dell. Apple could buy all outstanding Dell shares using only their cash in hand and then... oh, wait ;)
In seriousness, Apple could probably build a $799 MacBook but maybe they feel like they don't have to. For one they still are a premium brand. And on the other hand, they have not been hurt by their higher prices at all so far.
I think it has to do with the competition: Most PC manufacturers can't for the life of it produce a notebook that's not ugly. There are very few exceptions. And Microsoft can't for the life of it produce a version of Windows that's not crappy. Whatever the reasons may be...
Apple to introduce host of new machines, new multitouch input devices tomorrow? {Engadget}
Oct 19th 2009 9:54PM well he's later clarified this, it was his source that misunderstood something, his source thought that GV got rejected because they heard it has "not been approved". which isn't exactly the same, apparently an app can stay in "neither approved nor rejected" state for an indefinite period of time.
Intel unveils Light Peak 10Gbps optical interconnect for mobile devices {Engadget}
Sep 27th 2009 1:11PM now that you mention it... i knew there was something familiar about that pose. scorpio, i think.
New iMacs and MacBooks coming soon? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Sep 17th 2009 9:06PM You can either buy a new Mac the moment it comes out. That risks getting a 1.0 product that's not quite thought out. Or you get a gen 3 model that's been out for a while. That risks that a much newer much better model comes out 2 weeks later.
Anyway, buy from a Mac store and you have a 30 day cashback warranty (minus re-stocking, I think).
The glass is half full!
OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro takes longer to say than to boot {Engadget}
Sep 11th 2009 11:52PM I have this enclosure for a 2.5" HD. It's rock solid but it has a huge aluminium cooling block. It gets extremely hot too. I am not sure why - it seems to be the logic board?! Or FW? I tried it with different hard disks inside.
Sprint's Dan Hesse talks Android, Pre, iPhone, 4G on Charlie Rose {Engadget}
Sep 11th 2009 11:49PM I think so too. They're large enough to survive until then. 3G has obvious problems (see AT*T) once people actually start using it. There will be iPhones on both Sprint and VZN.. not soon, obviously, but getting 4G up probably takes long enough for the exclusivity contract to expire. 2011, 2012, then.
Sprint's Dan Hesse talks Android, Pre, iPhone, 4G on Charlie Rose {Engadget}
Sep 11th 2009 11:44PM Seconded. I thought Sprint was going to go down, but now I don't think so. If the CEO has this clear a picture of the world, he will be able to act on it.
