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You Gotta Have Faith… Apple’s whole widget business model, wherein it owns the hardware and the software, was, for a long time, a disadvantage in the PC market. In the 1990s, Apple lost market share quarter after quarter, and year after year, in part because Microsoft’s open licensing ecosystem allowed PC licensees to clobber Apple…

______________ One of the things we know about the Mac App Store, from interviewing developers, is that many new or inexperienced customers look at the MAS first for solutions to their problems. It’s a convenient and trustworthy watering hole, and it provides many developers with incremental revenue. Historically, many experienced customers know how to go…

Their analysis showed the iPad consuming 12 kWh annually. And while costs will vary depending on location, they determined that to be worth $1.36 for the year. They also measured the energy consumption of an iPhone 3G, which came to 2.2 kWh per year for a total of $0.25. Compare that to a 60W CFL…

Acer Founder Stan Shih Photo Credit: Rico Shen under Creative Common License Speech bubble courtesy of Shutterstock Smart-ass mock quote courtesy of Bryan Chaffin DigiTimes reported that Mr. Shih posited that Microsoft is merely trying to help expand demand for Windows 8-powered tablets, and that once it has done so by investing untold millions into…

WSB-TV News Report Apple has not released a statement on the issue, and it has so far not commented to NPR, the above-mentioned Atlanta TV station, and other mainstream media outlets looking for comment. According to Sahar Sabet, the Atlanta resident who was refused sale of an iPad, the Apple Store employee cited Apple’s Export…

The Drobo 5D with dual Thunderbolt portsBoth models include two Thunderbolt ports along with USB 3.0, a redesigned hardware and software architecture for improved performance and reliability, and by adding what the company is calling SSD acceleration the Drobo D5 and Drobo Mini offer substantially faster data transfer speeds.The Drobo drive arrays use the company’s…

Mr. Gou told reporters that when the iPhone 5 ships it will put Samsung’s Galaxy S III to shame, according to Focus Taiwan.Considering Mr. Gou’s position as the CEO overseeing the company that builds iPhones for Apple, he could potentially have early information about the company’s next update for the combination iPod and smartphone. He…

Looking at pieces of Steve Jobs’s January 2010 keynote introducing the original iPad to Monday’s keynote by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and other executives side by side, it’s easy to see that over the last 28 months, Microsoft has been taking some detailed notes. Send in the clones! Whether or not the company made good…

___________________ Dave Hamilton: So, you’re with a company called “The Soulmen,” and you’ve been developing … interesting apps. Text editors, a kid’s music player, and that sort of thing. Tell me a little bit about where that started and how it all happened. Max Seelemann: You know, we started ten years ago. Actually I got…

Senator Charles Schumer Apple announced a new mapping service on June 11th during the company’s annual World Wide Developer Conference. That service includes impressive 3D aerial views the company has been developing. Knowing that Apple’s announcement was coming, Google announced the week before its own enhancements to Google Maps, one of the world’s most popular…

___________________Dave Hamilton: I’m here with Mike Bombich of Bombich Software, Inc. You have an interesting story. You have been developing essentially one app in your app developer role for many, many years, and that’s Carbon Copy Cloner. But you’ve had an interesting history with Apple that goes back further than that. Mike Bombich: Yes, I’ve…

AdColony snags Apple iAd exec Mike OweniAd is Apple’s own service for delivering in-app ads to the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The service supports interactive advertisements and has been touted as a tool for drawing in more potential customers.Mr. Owen isn’t the first executive to leave Apple’s iAd program. Andy Miller, Apple’s vice president…

If you watch the keynote, you’ll see that the plan, as always, is to show developers how they can delight their customers with Apple products. This is in contrast to the traditional PC industry where cut-throat pricing and a drive to the bottom of the market doesn’t provide the excellence and capability needed for modern…

ThankYouPro from Zendoa LLC is a new app, available from the iTunes app store. The app is free but there is a charge of US$2.99 for each card they mail for you. ThankYouPro iconIt is found in the Lifestyle category and was updated June 4, 2012. It is available in English only and requires iOS…

Dave Hamilton: So…I think the best place to start is with what we were chatting about a little while ago, an app called Senuti. Brittany Tarvin: Sure. I met my co-founder, Whitney Young, who’s the original creator of Senuti when we were in college together. So, he was kinda doing that on the side. And…

The Time Capsule lets users back up data over their local Wi-Fi network via OS X’s built-in Time Machine feature. “The defect with the Time Capsules, which invariably destroyed the stored data, amounts to a fundamental and total breach of contract,” Perminder Tung said in his filing with the court. “The alleged ‘Time Capsule’ did not…

The decision to get into the tablet space with its own hardware is a reversal of Microsoft’s previous stance where the company said it would partner with hardware makers instead of competing with them.Microsoft’s own tablet could look something like thisIf that sounds vaguely familiar, it should because Microsoft made a similar promise to portable…

______________ Dave Hamilton: I’m here with Glen Aspeslagh from Ecamm Network at WWDC. So, Glen, you’ve been developing apps for a long time for the Mac — and, as history goes, for a long time for iOS now too. And it seems like your niche is doing things that people wouldn’t otherwise think to do…

_________ Last year, I launched the initial discussion of this conversion process in “In Search of New Web Site Tools to Replace iWeb, Part I.” In that article, I pointed to Apple’s FAQ that shows which legacy services would migrate to iCloud and which would not. iWeb publishing is not on the migration list. That…

“I think HTC did the right thing. I never believed that its first complaint against Apple had merit,” said Florian Mueller of Foss Patents. “HTC could certainly have afforded to continue with the appeal, but it would only have annoyed the CAFC and the ITC.”HTC drops appeal in ITC ruling on iPhone patent infringementApple and…

Samsung gets to sell its Galaxy SIII smartphone in the U.S.Judge Koh’s decision, according to Reuters, doesn’t imply that Apple can’t get an injunction; instead, it’s simply a matter of timing. With only a week to review all of the information in the case, she doesn’t have enough time to work through all of the…

Apple’s iOS 6 Maps app will get some help from WazeTechCrunch noted that Waze was listed in the legal notices in iOS 6’s code, as were several other mapping-related companies. Along with TomTom and Waze, Getchee, Localeze, Urban Mapping, DMTI, and MapData Sciences were also listed.Apple showed off its Google-free map system on Monday during…

The Cryo E40 from NZXT is a most unusual notebook cooler. There is a top and a bottom and in between those two pieces are two 80 mm moveable fans that are held in place by low-powered magnets. The user locates the two fans so that they pinpoint the hotspot locations for their specific computer. The fans…

The NOAA Radar US app for iOS shows the local terrain and weather radar images. Colored quadrilaterals outline regions of watches and warnings. The app is a must in stormy weather. Recently, in the Denver region, we’ve had some very bad weather — tornados and hail storms. I found myself wanting more specific information about…