After signaling its intent to follow Apple's wildly successful iPhone into the smartphone business, Dell's first attempts to produce a phone have been rejected by the carries for being too dull and lacking enough differentiation to stand out in a competitive environment, according to a report.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8’s Epic Fail: Scores 20/100 on Acid3 vs. Apple Safari’s perfect 100
When IE 8 dropped on Thursday, many in the development community rushed to download it...
Developer didn’t foresee new career when he bought his first Mac last year, it just sort of happened
Todd Moore didn't foresee that he was about to embark on a new career when he bought his first Mac...
Macgamestore releases Sally's Spa for Mac
Macgamestore.com has released the sequel to its Sallyís Salon game for the Mac, Sallyís Spa. In the game Sally has taken a break from the salon business and teamed up with her friend Nell, in order to begin running a spa. Featuring 10 different spas across the world, Players will have to deal with over 12 different customer types including wedding brides, couples, and high rollers, and provides ni...
Apple seeds new Mac OS X 10.5.7 build; release imminent
Apple has this weekend seeded a new build (9J34) of the next update to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard...
For Ballmer, a Mac is a PC costing $500 more
In a conference, Steve Ballmer gave its opinion on the renewal of market shares by Apple. According to him, recent data prove that Apple is now in retreat. He considers that this turn down is related to the economic reversal and that it is useless to pay $500 more to buy a machine identical to a PC juste with a logo in the apple shape.
If we are often accused of playing the anti PC troll, however it is not right to let such statements pass by. It is somewhat revealing; Ballmer sought to compare the hardware side whereas its company is concerned with the software. Admittedly, Mac is often very close a PC internally; the greatest difference is precisely at the level of the operating system , and let us leave no doubt about best OS, Vista haa proved that it is difficult to sell with or without Apple as competition.
In fact, and in a more general way, since Ballmer took command of Microsoft, the company did not record any great success:
- Vista? A resounding failure.
- Zune? Without comment.
- Xbox 360? It is not imposed as standard.
Over 80% of Mac Intel on Hardmac
From time to time, we post news about the evolution of software, hardware and browser of our readers. Thanks to google analytics, it turns out that over 80% of our Mac visitors are using a Mac Intel, the part of PPC hardware keeps reducing every day.
Similarly, the hardware distibuton is as follow:
Indeed, the iPhone is now the third platform of our readers, and the iPod touch is even ranked on the 5th positions. We will follow the evolution other the coming months.
BusinessWeek’s Burrows: Cisco to battle Apple? Not likely
Put me down as a skeptic regarding Cisco’s acquisition yesterday of Pure Digital...
Dell's iPhone Killer rejected by carriers as too dull
After signaling its intent to follow Apple's wildly successful iPhone into the smartphone business, Dell's first attempts to produce a phone have been rejected by the carries for being too dull and lacking enough differentiation to stand out in a competitive environment, according to a report.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8’s Epic Fail: Scores 20/100 on Acid3 vs. Apple Safari’s perfect 100
When IE 8 dropped on Thursday, many in the development community rushed to download it...
Developer didn’t foresee new career when he bought his first Mac last year, it just sort of happened
Todd Moore didn't foresee that he was about to embark on a new career when he bought his first Mac...
Macgamestore releases Sally's Spa for Mac
Macgamestore.com has released the sequel to its Sallyís Salon game for the Mac, Sallyís Spa. In the game Sally has taken a break from the salon business and teamed up with her friend Nell, in order to begin running a spa. Featuring 10 different spas across the world, Players will have to deal with over 12 different customer types including wedding brides, couples, and high rollers, and provides ni...
Apple seeds new Mac OS X 10.5.7 build; release imminent
Apple has this weekend seeded a new build (9J34) of the next update to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard...
For Ballmer, a Mac is a PC costing $500 more
In a conference, Steve Ballmer gave its opinion on the renewal of market shares by Apple. According to him, recent data prove that Apple is now in retreat. He considers that this turn down is related to the economic reversal and that it is useless to pay $500 more to buy a machine identical to a PC juste with a logo in the apple shape.
If we are often accused of playing the anti PC troll, however it is not right to let such statements pass by. It is somewhat revealing; Ballmer sought to compare the hardware side whereas its company is concerned with the software. Admittedly, Mac is often very close a PC internally; the greatest difference is precisely at the level of the operating system , and let us leave no doubt about best OS, Vista haa proved that it is difficult to sell with or without Apple as competition.
In fact, and in a more general way, since Ballmer took command of Microsoft, the company did not record any great success:
- Vista? A resounding failure.
- Zune? Without comment.
- Xbox 360? It is not imposed as standard.
Over 80% of Mac Intel on Hardmac
From time to time, we post news about the evolution of software, hardware and browser of our readers. Thanks to google analytics, it turns out that over 80% of our Mac visitors are using a Mac Intel, the part of PPC hardware keeps reducing every day.
Similarly, the hardware distibuton is as follow:
Indeed, the iPhone is now the third platform of our readers, and the iPod touch is even ranked on the 5th positions. We will follow the evolution other the coming months.
BusinessWeek’s Burrows: Cisco to battle Apple? Not likely
Put me down as a skeptic regarding Cisco’s acquisition yesterday of Pure Digital...
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