Apple’s imminent demise has been predicted continuously since about 1977. The reasons have never changed: Proprietary software Vertical integration Failure to license the OS Steve Jobs is an asshole Niche market I just read an article a couple of days ago on BusinessInsider that pretty much rehashed all of that. The great part was that [...]
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Good. Bad. Ugly.
July 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Android, Tablet, iPad, iPad killer, iPhone, iPhone killer
Samsung Galaxy S. iPhone killer. You read it here first, or possibly 23rd. It all depends on where you were when you started reading. If you like illiterate rambling, read the review at the above link. …. I read somewhere, today, that the Slate is still coming. Steve Ballmer believes it. … Some judge has [...]
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Can’t Find My Way Home.
July 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Android, App Store, Apple Tablet, Follies of Humanity, General Detritus, Punditbots and Fundtards, iPad, iPhone, iPhone killer
Just read, over on CNet, that Jonny Ive and Steve Jobs are on an official list of the smartest people in the tech business. This is “news.” … Here’s why I don’t subscribe to the Salt Lake Tribune: Their punditbot, here, says: The term “iPhone Killer” is “one of the most overused epithets in the [...]
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Oh Lord, It’s Happening
June 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Android, Apple Tablet, Contest, Death of the computer, Licensing OS X, Master Jobst Fimil, Microsoft, Punditbots and Fundtards, Tablet, The End of the World as We Know It, The Stock Market, iPad, iPad killer, iPhone, iPhone killer
Well, once again I’ve been reading around the innertubes. Apple is totally off the deep end, this time. The old chestnut about licensing is back in a number of places. Apple is repeating the mistakes of the 80s. Pundits with the mental capacity of ripe cabbages are reporting (again) that the biggest mistake Apple ever [...]
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Here We Go Again
May 31st, 2010 · 3 Comments · Android, Master Jobst Fimil, Windows 7, iPad killer
Microsoft, Asus, H-P, Dell, Nokia, Samsung, Chevrolet, Kimberly-Clark, Archer Daniels Midland, John Deere, Alcoa, Western Publishing, J.I. Case, Yamaha, General Electric, Altria, PaperMate, JDS Uniphase, Purina, and Church & Dwight may have developed iPad killers. The iPad killer criteria: The spec sheets prove beyond a reasonable doubt that every one of these machines is clearly [...]
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