Posts by waldobushman

I have every reason to believe that Apple can and will play nice with others when it's in their interest and play hardball when it is in their interest to do so. Apple is no different from any other company in this regard. Apple will...

Quote: Originally Posted by stelligent Well, it is a simple explanation. No explanation needed unless one is not particularly bright. However, a simple explanation is often not the real version of what happened. Would Apple...

Quote: Originally Posted by stormj I'm really disappointed with Apple Insider for pushing this trash. Of the numerous ways in which this "article" is just plain wrong, let me catalog just a couple. First, it shows an...

The reason MS and all the others want to use the term "AppStore" that Apple invented is just because it solely refers to the Apple's very successful AppStore for all things iOS, iPad, iPodTouch, iPhone. Like MS's and others'...

Quote: Originally Posted by magicj Hmm... That seems like a fairly broad definition of "Cloud". A more common definition might be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing Which would include your examples of email...

Now that we are told the phone keeps the information for over a year, they are going to turn it off? Too bad. I got a kick out of seeing where I had been, and like photos, and a journal, helped me remember things I had forgotten....

I also do not know how demand is estimated, but successful companies seem to know. Apple, at least if you believe their comments, have estimated low on the iPhone 4, iPad, and iPad 2. Other companies seem to be estimating too high: MS...

Quote: Originally Posted by Chris_CA So they sat on a completed, fully ready product for 4 years? No. They worked on the iPad concept and technology but it was not "ready for market". Maybe not quite ready for...

Gartner "predictions" are only accurate if you buy into its self-fulfilling prophecies. In the past, management types read this garbage, and believing it, bought into the predictions and made decisions making the...

These are CEOs. Management. They may be clueless but they are no different from most other management types. They are bean counters. They talk to other bean counters. They know quality only available to the super-rich: yachts,...