Posts Tagged ‘Mac’
Windows vs. Mac In Schools: All the Wrong Reasons
The Maine Department of Education announced earlier this week that it was switching from Apple Macintoshes to Hewlett-Packard Windows PCs as the technology behind the Maine Learning Technology Initiative. Macs had been used exclusively since the program was started by then-Governor …
Miscellaneous Musings On Apple’s Earnings And The Future Of Personal Computing
Yesterday Apple released their earnings for the fourth quarter of 2012. It is important to note that Apple had 14 weeks, as compared to the normal 13 weeks, in their year ago fourth quarter. In order to equalize results, all …
It’s Going To Be A Very Apple-y Holiday Quarter
Tightwads, Value Buyers and Spendthrifts
Oscar Wilde once said that cynics know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Similarly, tech pundits are often obsessed with price to the detriment of value. Despite all evidence to the contrary, pundits …
Mac Attack
At the Apple Special Event held on Wednesday, September 12, 2012, Tim Cook announced these facts regarding Apple’s Mac Computers:
1) Mac notebooks rank #1 in market share in the U.S. for the last 3 months.
2) Mac notebooks had 27% market …
The New Mac Ads: If Tech Companies Were Cruise Lines
There has been a real kerfuffle caused by the new Mac Ads.
Some people dislike them. Others hate, hate, hate them.
On the other hand, some people like them…or, at least, they tolerate them.
MAC OWNERS AND MAC HATERS ARE NOT THE …
OS X Mountain Lion: My Favorite New Features
Tim wrote earlier this week about his conviction that when it comes to post PC platforms Apple will keep OS X and iOS separate rather than merge the two as many expect. What Apple has done with OS …
The Apple Ecosystem Just Got Stronger
Apple today at their World Wide Developers Conference released a number of things that have made their ecosystem even stronger. I am of the opinion that one of the best ways to analyze computing platforms is to look …
The Apple Brand Is a Powerful Selling Point
At the Intel Developer Forum this week I saw a number of interesting products and product concepts from a wide range of manufacturers.
As I looked over many of these products, some from known brands and some from more obscure …
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