December 2010
10 posts
Samsung Galaxy Player on display at CES 2011 →
Let’s hope they rename it to something other than the YP-GB1. Even Zune sounds better. The only way I see an Android music player being successful is if 1) Android gaming development explodes beyond what it is today (i.e. get the younger pre-phone-owning generations hooked) or 2) Google releases a cloud-based version of iTunes that syncs with Android. The second would be the most game...
Small companies vs large companies
Small company priorities:
Passion
Profit
Large company priorities:
Procedure
Paternalism
Frugality
Profit
My impressions of Apple TV after 24 hours
Santa brought me an Apple TV. These are my thoughts. Spoiler: I like.
If you turn on home sharing in iTunes, you can access/stream any media you have stored in iTunes. This includes, music, movies (even home movies you’ve put there), TV shows, photos, etc. Setup is effortless.
Apple TV comes with a Netflix app that gives you access to your instant queue, a YouTube app, Flickr, and a few...
In my experience, there’s about a 2% chance that a 50% chance of snow is accurate on your favorite local southeastern news station. But hey, if it stimulates the local economy through milk and bread sales, then we’re all winners, right?
Writing is merely a selfish pursuit to discover one’s self.
Times are a changin' →
Bill Shope, Goldman hardware analyst :
This rush of iPad competitors is not surprising in itself, as Apple tends to regularly define the direction of the electronic media and computing industries. What is surprising is that many of these products are not utilizing Intel microprocessors or a Microsoft operating environment. [W]e expect the vast majority of these devices to run the ARM...
“Over the weekend, Goldman Sachs analyst Sarah Friar sounded the alarms in a...”
– Microsoft as the modern day Titanic; we all know how that ends | ZDNet
WSJ: iPads Are Latest Weapon in Medical Sales →
There appears to be something of an iPad arms race in the $200 billion medical-devices sector. Heart-device maker Boston Scientific recently bought 2,000 for its sales team, and orthopedics company Zimmer Holdings Inc. is rolling out more than 1,000 of the tablets. Stryker Corp., a Zimmer rival, said it has deployed iPads “and a number of applications” in a pilot program.
Consumer Reports absolutely destroys AT&T →
AT&T failed miserably in each and every category, rating the worst in every area except texting in which it was second to worst.
I don’t regret waiting for Verizon.
iPad Closes on Kindle, Google Looms Over Both →
The iPad was launched in April of this year, more than two years after the Kindle. That’s a considerable length of time to establish customer loyalty, and for a while, it looked like the Kindle had that in spades. As August, the Kindle accounted for more than 60 percent of e-reader ownership, compared to 16 percent for the iPad. However, by November, that had changed drastically, with the Kindle...