Is it possible the iPhone battery class-action suit actually has merit? Only if you ignore reality.
Saturday, 28 July 2007
On the Apple 2.0 site today there is an article that implies the class-action suit filed against Apple for the iPhone may possibly, in some slight way, maybe, just a little bit, have some actual merit. Um, no.
Just so there can be no question about it now, go to the iPhone Tech Specs page and you’ll see this: “Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced. See www.apple.com/batteries for more information.” This is similar to what the iPod Tech Specs page has said for a long time.
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Microsoft CEO asks investors for patience (or, Ballmer begs for more time).
Friday, 27 July 2007
Macworld published an article about Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s talk during Microsoft’s annual financial analyst meeting on Thursday.
The last time I looked in on Steve B. he was getting some PR treatment. In an article, he mentioned taking the long-term approach and how long it took Microsoft to do anything right (OK, he didn’t say it exactly like that, his words were that it took them 10 years to get Windows popular and many years to get database popular).
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Vista sales hit 60M. Finally.
Thursday, 26 July 2007
See what channel-stuffing gets you?
MacNN reports that, according to Reuters, Microsoft announced at their annual meeting with financial analysts that Vista had sold 60 million copies. MacNN then goes on to state the following:
“The announcement appears to confirm a permanent slowdown in Vista sales, which ran to 20 million in the first month, but were halved for both March and April.”
No. While a slowdown is certainly possible (what with PC makers offering XP as a substitute for Vista, and Dell even offering Linux), what this really shows is that Microsoft’s initial sales figure of 20 million was a fabrication in the first place. They had to halve the next few months’ numbers in order to clear out the channel-stuffing they did to get that initial 20 million.
I don’t know why Microsoft doesn’t understand that this practice provides only a short-term “boost,” and always catches up to you eventually, making things look worse. Didn’t they learn that with the Xbox? I guess not.
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A look at Apple’s Mac market share US and worldwide.
Thursday, 26 July 2007
Using the numbers from Apple’s recent 3Q results and the latest IDC and Gartner numbers from last week, let’s see where Apple sits in the market share game.
Since IDC and Gartner are not in complete agreement on the numbers (though they’re close), I’ll split the difference and just call it IDC/G.
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GigaOM wants a sanity check. I checked, there’s no sanity.
Wednesday, 25 July 2007
Occasionally I go against my own advice and click on a link whose title ends in a question mark. Trust me, you should never do that.
In this case it was a GigaOM article entitled “iPhone’s sanity check, iPods missing a beat?“
Since Apple just released their 3Q numbers, and we know they sold 9.81M iPods last quarter, the only sanity we should check is that of anyone asking if iPods are missing a beat.
The article states:
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An early view of Apple’s 3Q results.
Wednesday, 25 July 2007
Well, Apple’s press release for 3Q results is out, and it mentions no specific iPhone sales numbers:
““We’re thrilled to report the highest June quarter revenue and profit in Apple’s history, along with the highest quarterly Mac sales ever,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iPhone is off to a great start—we hope to sell our one-millionth iPhone by the end of its first full quarter of sales—and our new product pipeline is very strong.””
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Rumored interface for 6G iPod.
Wednesday, 25 July 2007
Many sites have published links to a video with the alleged new interface for the 6G video iPod (here is MacDailyNews’). The video doesn’t necessarily remind one of the iPhone, though clearly elements have been borrowed.
I’ve gone on record stating the 6G iPod would have the iPod interface from the iPhone, or something very close (for example, the iPod might add a virtual scroll wheel for games).
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A look at Computerworld’s article on Net Applications’ market share data.
Monday, 23 July 2007
Computerworld has an article that tells us Vista use has grown while Mac OS X has remained flat.
The majority of new PCs sold since the end of January have Vista on them, yet Computerworld seems genuinely excited that Vista’s browser use has increased rather rapidly:
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Another ringing Vista endorsement? No. Acer head blasts Microsoft’s latest.
Monday, 23 July 2007
In a previous post I wrote about a “kind of” endorsement of Vista that really wasn’t. That was from a user.
Today we have another view of Vista from the head of hardware maker Acer:
“”The entire industry is disappointed by Windows Vista,” the head of the world’s fourth-biggest PC maker told the Financial Times Deutschland in its online edition on Monday.”
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