Posts by cajun

Apple has to diversify to break the Mac out of the niche that it's in. It only makes sense that Tim Cook would visit Valve personally, after so many Apple reps went there and nothing ever materialized from it. Cook isn't going to...

Quote: Originally Posted by jd_in_sb Decades ago I used to baby sit the guy whose name is on the patent. I hear he is brilliant. When you baby sat him, did he have trouble finding you?

It may be another year before Apple formally addresses the Kindle Fire threat. The Fire is a nice toy, but the Fire only emphasizes what a value the iPad is. Amazon is working hard to bring the next version of the Fire out this year, but...

I'd love to see Apple roll in DLNA support as well.

Quote: Originally Posted by realitycheck69 Why use apple's match program when google's cloud is free? iTunes Match "blesses" all of your bootleg MP3's and gives you legal covering.

Oh great, another screen size for Android developers to support. :P

Quote: Originally Posted by Kit_C Board members also get one each of every new product introduced during the fiscal year. This year, that would be an iPhone 4s, iPad2, MacBook Air, Macbook Pro, iMac, Mac Mini, Thunderbolt display,...

Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton An Amazon branded phone? I don't quite understand the value proposition on this. What does Amazon bring to the table? Are they afraid that other smartphones don't drive customers to their...

Thank Jean Louis Gasse for Steve Jobs's return to Apple. Apple was looking at both NeXT and BeOS. Gil Amelio and the Apple board thought that they could pick up BeOS on the cheap, and made them an offer. In their negotiations with Be,...

Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit They'll only need a guy of Johnson's caliber if they have to do a complete makeover of the entire retail operation. It's very similar to hiring a contractor to build a house. Once the house...