Posts by bugsnw

Don't forget, Apple has very high margins on their products. It's not a grocery chain. They can pretty much expand where markets dictate, as they have no debt and a small country's GDP worth of $$$ in the bank. As long as they keep...

I like to rent movies with a few mouse clicks. I love the University podcasts. I often share particular iPhoto libraries with my parents and others. Watching Apple Keynotes on a 52" HD LCD TV is particularly fun. With VisualHub,...

I've enjoyed the off-topic posts very much. If you ever want to read another brilliant mind on the dangers of monopoly power, Peter Lynch brushes over the issue in Learn to Earn. We've heard a lot lately about how bad our economic...

The reason Apple has enjoyed a free ride with security is the "i" in all their product names stands for Invincible.

Steve Jobs teased with a response to a criticism of .Mac with something like, "I couldn't agree more, and Apple is working on it..." So here comes an opportunity to amp up MobileMe with an addition that seems custom made for...

The day Apple adds a card reader to their hardware is the day we all know Steve has died. There's a better chance he'll add an FM radio, with knobs and pushtabs, to the next iPods. Sandisk makes a great reader for their SD cards that...

It would be kind of cool if Apple could innovate in the area of modularity. We all love how accessible the innards of the MacPro are and how easy it is to upgrade various components. The iMac was heading that way when you could access...

Apple's iPhone/iPod touch are very sensitive to hardware improvements. I recently played Frenzic on my wife's iPhone and it was noticeably slower than the new iPod touch. The difference in the speed rating of the chips isn't that...

A new keyboard w/ black keys and black power chord would complete the iMac look. I ditched Apple mice a while back in favor of Logitech's VX Revolution, which has long battery life and a wonderful alloy scroll wheel. I only wish the...

Complaining feels good sometimes and you never know who's reading these posts. Perhaps it was our bitching about high RAM prices that brought Apple's surcharges down to merely painful levels. Apple's thanksgiving sale was hardly that....