First Impressions...

I bought the family pack of Leopard this evening and only had to wait on line about 25 minutes. There were about 200 people ahead of me, but somehow they were able to move those people through the store very quickly. Interesting thing to note was that when I had made my way up through 75%...

A Market Share Surprise...

I read the following paragraph today and I couldn’t believe it: “The increase for Apple puts it over 6.3 percent market share in the United States, behind Dell (28 percent) and HP (24.3 percent). Toshiba (5.2 percent) and Gateway (5.2 percent) round out the top...

October 26th: Leopard...

I was delighted to finally read that the official release date for Mac OS X Leopard is Friday October 26th. The Engadget story mentions the pricing: $129 for a single license, $199 for a 5-license family pack. It then goes on (in a bit of sarcasm) and mentions how there is no upgrade...

Marketing?...

I saw this ad today and it got me thinking: THIS is what they think sells things? I think it’s LONG since time that they ditched their marketing firm and hired a new...

Do You Like Apples?...

I thought this photo was very, very interesting. Granted, it is just one of hundreds of thousands of classrooms and therefore nothing can really be concluded from it, but it is still interesting to think ahead to when these kids are out of college and possibly entering decision-making...

Office 2008 for Mac. He...

I read a couple of news stories the other day describing the release date and pricing of the delayed product Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. As I read the information, I was both surprised and not surprised at the same time. I didn’t even realize that was possible. Rather than just...

An Apple Price-Cut Laws...

I read an article (linked below) about a woman who is filing a lawsuit because the price of the iPhone was dropped by so much so shortly after launch. Frankly, I was annoyed. If you read this blog you would have read my post about my own disappointment in the huge price drop, but then...

iPhone v1.1.1...

Today I installed the 1.1.1 update of iPhone after reading many articles and blog posts about how it makes an iPhone a “brick” if you’ve hacked it to install or change things. Lots of people look at the iPhone as a great device that can be hacked to do much more than it...

A Thought About Market ...

I read an article this morning that reminded me of a subject I wanted to blog about but forgot to. It has to do with the age-old battle between Macintosh OS X and Windows – particularly Vista at this point. Many, many people make comments about Apple trying to gain market share and...

Even in Fiction...

I was recently directed to this passage from the book “The Book of the Dead” by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (page 85 of the soft cover), and I was amazed at how closely we could identify with it. “She plugged in her laptop and booted it up. At the insistence of...