Posts by Alfiejr

the other news from the MS meeting today is Ballmer announces 40 million W8 licenses "sold".   hello, media suckers, who just report this PR handout without finding out exactly what he is talking about.   no way 40...

yup. "coulda, woulda, shoulda." great CEO leadership!   except, it = "Fail."   the ARM Surface is Zune 2. the Intel Surface Pro ... well ask me when it ACTUALLY SHIPS!   and all those poor sad MS stock owners...

Quote: Originally Posted by thataveragejoe    Some of it is the iPad, and some of it is late refreshes, but I don't see it as 7%. I think some of it is technology progress in general. WHY do people need to...

many desktop Mac buyers simply are waiting for the new models. the new Mini went on sale some weeks ago, but the iMac not yet - almost a two month wait so far. that alone would account for the entire difference - laptops keep selling as...

Quote: Originally Posted by TBell      True, but there is different methods of jailbreaking. I agree though that the Apple TV is woefully inadequate especially in relation to the XBox 360, Roku,...

these reports by Gartner, IDC and the rest are always about unit sales totals. but sales revenues are far more significant in fact, and are at least as important a metric for ranking market success. while profits of course are the metric...

Quote: Originally Posted by bobborries  It's great that Apple is going after the Kindle sized tablets, but they may be going in the wrong direction.     It's very possible Microsoft...

OMG, all this hair splitting!   bottom line, the mini will immediately become Apple's top-selling iPad, as DED concludes. and total sales of all iPad/tablet models (including the iPod touch) will jump yet again this holiday...

this is so pathetically typical of MS - announce ("leak") a vaporware product to try to distract attention from a rival's real thing.   but there is a major problem with that strategy this time: the iPad mini is going to...

Quote: Originally Posted by igriv    Who does video editing on an iPad?   people like me who still have a camcorder to shoot videos while on vacation that are a little better than a...