Posts by Inkling

Quote: But the need for such third-party external battery makers could be significantly lessened if Apple were to follow through on its pursuit of power adapters with integrated rechargeable batteries. It'd be more accurate to say...

Amazon is making a good move. Given the budget restraints that schools are under, a Kindle ereader (at less that a third the price of an iPad) is a good deal, particularly given the fact that savings from using ebooks could recoup that...

Quote: As it struggles to meet demand for products from partners like Apple, Kureha is said to be accelerating its previously detailed plans to move its operations overseas. The company has factories in the U.S. and China, but none...

I suspect the real legal debate won't hinge on market share and anti-trust laws, which can get messy and often ends up inconclusive. No, the debate is really a public policy issue. Is the public interest best served by putting cell...

Great analysis! I'm starting to understand why Apple's 30% take isn't an issue with periodicals. If the subscription price is only 20% of the cost of production, then Apple's charge is only 6% of their total cost, not bad when Apple...

Apple seems to be coming around to something similar to my suggestion that Apple come up with a replacement for the current Ethernet connector that works like MagSafe. This goes one step further by combining data with power. I just hope...

What a joke. Apple exports every job it can overseas at at time when real unemployment in this country, especially among young adults, is running around 20%. And yet they promise that, just this once, they'll spend some of their overseas...

Quote: "There is a problem with the configuration of your iPhone," the error message in iBooks 1.2.1 reads. "Please restore with iTunes and reinstall iBooks." A vaguely worded error message like that reminds me of...

Quote: Originally Posted by 7600/132 The cheapest data plan is $15 per month, the cheapest voice plan is $40. Actually, they do have cheaper voice plans, but not for iPhone users. It's hard to see the data plan as the problem when voice...

Patent trolls are the corporate world's equivalent of spam. Perhaps the courts should began to do with patent suits what they did with copyright lawsuits in 1998: requiring a losing plaintiff to pay all a winning defendant's legal fees....