Tag Archives: Apple

Thoughts about the unveiling of Iphone 4S

Today was the official release of Iphone 5. Oops, IPhone 4S I mean.

I followed through the NY Times and The Guardian’s  live blogs and Twitter. While I was overwhelmed with an incredible amount of data, #letstalkiphone quickly become the number one worldwide trend topics with 40 tweets per minute,…

Property is no longer theft

A patent war is the latest problem that has hit the Internet culture and it’s innovation. There have been a lot of statements and press releases about the subject in the media. Hardware giants like  Apple and Samsung have been battling each other in courts all over the world. The main problem is about the technology involving…

Apple Is Chasing The Largests.

Apple Inc. is becoming on of the most powerfull sellers and producers of smart phones. According to DC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker Apple, that came up on October 28, 2010, has went up and joined three the biggest phones producers, namely Nokia, Samsung and LG Electronics. The American multinational corporation that designs and…

The console wars, back to the 16bit era

Bits. Eight of them or sixteen meant a world of difference to me when I was a kid. I didn’t know what a bit was and actually I still don’t. I tried looking it up but it’s a very tech savvy story I will never be able to reproduce here myself. But luckily it doesn’t appear to matter anymore since…

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mysterious LED

Wandering around some Mac-aficionado forums in search of good repairing tips for my powerbook maybe-a-bit-old’n’dusty-thus-winding-way-too-slow-and-definitely-too-noisy internal fan, I found this amazing asynchronous, multi-user dispersed chat:

user A: I keep my powerbook on my desk when I work. When it goes to sleep, the LED on the front of the case starts doing its ‘breathing’ thing. I find this distracting, since I’m usually

How do you like them Apples?

Apple is back from the dead. How does Apple try to get on top of Microsoft? How do they take this advertising war and how are they promoting their products? Apple has a very strong fanbase and they have some pretty unique products but how do these hold up in the end? Are they really as revolutionairy as Jobs and his colleagues claim and is the way in which they try to win people over from other OS’es to Mac valid or are they basing it on stereotypes and myths?

NOVA College Tour: Interview with Steve Ballmer CEO Microsoft

Yesterday evening Steve Ballmer visited NOVA College Tour. Steve Ballmer is CEO of Microsoft and is well known of his flamboyant appearances at conferences.
In this interview with 500 students of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam he talks about his concurrents Apple and Google and how he wants to challenge them. About the sanction of…

Apple bombs blogosphere with an airstrike

For the next few days Apple will rule the blogosphere and all of that had to do with the keynote presentation Steve Jobs gave at the MacWorld 2008 conference. It started yesterday and will probably continue throughout the rest of this week with massive coverage on various blogs and websites. This post looks at the needless struggle to acquire the same information seconds before the other blogs do.