Archive for March, 2012
Apple Becomes the Number One Consumer Brand in Japan
This is fascinating. I just saw news from Nikkei that Apple is now the number one consumer brand–for the first time–in Japan as picked by Japanese consumers. Last year Apple ranked number 11 and jumped to first place …
Apple Turns Technology Into Art
As I was reflecting on my first experience with the new iPad and its retina display I was intrigued with a thought. There has always been something about the iPhone’s retina display and now with the iPad’s display …
Why Best Buy Is Struggling: A Personal Tale
Best Buy, which has been struggling of late, announced today that it was closing 50 big box stores as part of a restructuring. Some commentators viewed this as a sign that the big box retail model has outlived its usefulness, …
An iPad Firestorm About Nothing
Apple’s newest iPad hit the market three weeks ago and already their have been a number of controversies surrounding the device. As expected, all of the issues fizzled out because there was really nothing there in the first place.
The first …
Android is Losing Momentum
I wrote a column earlier this year titled “2012: The Year Google Fixes Android or Loses the War.” In that column I laid out a number of issues facing Android as well as the business reasons why many problems …
Facebook and Employers: Where’s the Beef?
I think it is very wrong for employers to demand a Facebook password so they can check prospective employees’ private pages. But for all the outrage and posturing that the notion has engendered, is this really happening? That is not …
5 Million Galaxy Note Shipments Proves One Thing
I am actually not surprised at the news that Samsung has shipped (not sold) 5 Million Galaxy Note smart phones. Given that it is doubtful that Samsung will reveal actual sales figures as well as regional breakdowns, my …
Why Microsoft Is Whipping Apple in TV
Farhad Manjoo at Slate has a good piece today on how Microsoft is already delivering many of the expected features of the tech world’s favorite unicorn, the Apple television. The combination of the Xbox and the Kinect sensor, together with …
How Wi-Fi Can Save Data-Guzzling Mobile Devices
It didn’t take buyers of the new iPad long to discover an unpleasant reality about their new toys. The iPad, with its fast LTE data connection high resolution display, can devour data faster than wireless carriers want to supply it. …
What Apple Needs to do to Stay Ahead with the iPad 4
Apple once again delivered a high quality experience with the “new” iPad, aka iPad 3. Like phones, Apple has again managed to deliver enough to stay ahead as they did with the iPhone 4s. The …
How Apple is Cornering the Market in Mobile Devices
I have been speaking with various vendors of tablets lately and more than once, the topic of Apple “iPodding” them has come up. iPodding basically refers to the fact that although Apple has had the iPod on the market for …
Software Updates: Another Reason iPhone Keeps Winning
When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007 with AT&T as its exclusive partner, it made two revolutionary changes in how mobile phones were sold and managed. First, it was to be sold without a carrier subsidy. Second Apple would control …
Microsoft Needs to Get its Apps Together
Last week in my Friday column I outlined a few of the challenges that I think Microsoft has in front of them with Windows 8. I cited lack of Windows momentum in the market along with changing …
iPad Nitpickers: Get a Life
Back when I spent most of my time reviewing products for BusinessWeek, I always felt a little dread when I had to deal with anything from Apple. I knew that the slightest criticism would invoke a storm of protest from …
NVIDIA Solved the Ultrabook Discrete Graphics Problem with Kepler
When Intel released their first Ultrabook specification, one of the first component implications I thought of were the impact to discrete graphics. My thought process was simple; based on the Intel specifications for battery life, weight and thickness, designing-in discrete …
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