Ecosystems
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WWDC Expectations
Update: bumping to the top of the page Beyond the usual updates of iOS and OS X, there are two significant rumors about what Apple might unveil next week at WWDC. The first is Healthbook, as detailed by Mark Gurman here and here. The second is Apple’s plan for a smart home, first reported by […]
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Digital Hub 2.0
The PC was famously the digital hub; now that is the smartphone.
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Two Bears, Revisited
One of the more annoying aspects of the late great PC area was how review sites treated Macs: for all intents and purposes, they were just another PC. Consider this CNET review of the 2007 MacBook Pro:1 The good: Updated CPUs and graphics without an updated price; LED-backlit display for better battery life; 802.11n support. […]
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BlackBerry — and Nokia’s — Fundamental Failing
In December 2009, while a first-year student at Kellogg, I went to a RIM (now BlackBerry1) recruitment presentation. “Our problem,” the relatively senior fellow said, “is that when I get on a plane, everyone uses a BlackBerry until they close the door. Then they pull out their iPods. We need to make BlackBerry’s the only […]
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Two Bears
There are two Apple bear cases; only one applies to Apple, though, and the other applies to Samsung.