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Steve Jobs was ?annoyed and depressed? over initial reaction to iPad launch Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs has leaked additional details about how Apple's co-founder felt about the populist, disdainful…
... sales in favor of alternative vaporware promises by its competitors has ... -
Five years of iPhoneFive years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the new iPhone at Macworld Expo. The company has since delivered five generations of new hardware and iOS s…
... available in another year, a vaporware record it replayed over and ... -
Mac OS X Mountain Lion release signals shift in secrecy at Apple<br /> Apple's upcoming "Mountain Lion" release of Mac OS X 10.8 is borrowing a feature from Microsoft: the prerelease software is being sh…
... strategy denigrated with the term "vaporware." In contrast, Mountain Lion is ... -
Microsoft warned PC partners it was entering tablet hardware space<vc><strong>On the heels of the unveiling of Microsoft's Surface tablet, CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed that his company gave PC partners a heads up …
... pundits have called the tablet "vaporware" because Microsoft neglected to reveal ... -
iPhone Patent Wars: Xerox PARC & the Apple, Inc. Macintosh: innovator, duplicator & litiga...Understanding Apple's intent to patent every valuable aspect of the intellectual property that went into creating iPhone in 2007 requires a look at w…
... " in 1992, followed by ActiveMovie vaporware that was supposed to compete ... , however, frequently described Microsoft's vaporware as if it were real ... -
iPhone Patent Wars: Apple's $1.1 billion ARM injection ignites a mobile patent raceThe wholesale appropriation of Apple's Macintosh technology portfolio by Microsoft in the early 1990s had a profound effect upon how the industry beg…
... under the name "Cairo," a vaporware project that eventually delivered none ... we're working on." That vaporware vision helped derail the prospects ... , Microsoft launched its own "WinPad" vaporware to distract the market away ... -
After its disastrous Exynos 5 Octa, Samsung may have lost Apple's A7 contract to TSMCApple has long been expected to move its A-series chip production from Samsung to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. This wasn't expected to…
... the media. When Samsung promises vaporware, it's serious stuff. When ... -
Why Apple, Inc. is keeping the identity of many of its 23 recent acquisitions a secretApple has acquired at least 23 firms over the last five quarters, but the purpose--and even the identity--of some of them remains a mystery. This is …
... ended up being never-released vaporware), Samsung's claim to have ... -
Apple, Inc's WWDC is all about the D: DevelopersApple's Worldwide Developer Conference is the longest running developer confab in existence, dating back to 1986. With a lineage like that, it should…
... canceled a wide series of vaporware and stalled projects and retargeted ... -
Editorial: Google, Microsoft claiming Apple's crown, albeit from 1994Google and Microsoft have virtually achieved their goal of becoming Apple, albeit twenty years behind today's Apple. Which is sort of a beleaguered a…
... today. It wasn't just vaporware; Apple had already unleashed a ... -
After gaining U.S. government approval, Samsung Knox security for Android found to be "completely coSamsung's Knox security layer for Android generates weak encryption keys, stores passwords locally and gives users login hints in a fatal "security b…
... fingerprint sensor by talking about vaporware plans for "iris scanning" biometrics ... -
How Apple Inc. managed to upstage the tech industry at CES for fifteen yearsWithin three years of Steve Jobs' return to Apple in 1996, he transformed the then-struggling company into an innovation machine capable of consisten…
Within three years of Steve Jobs' return to Apple in 1996, he transformed the then-struggling company into an innovation machine capable of consistently stealing attention from the rest of the industry. This year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas ... -
I Bet My Life: Microsoft HoloLens perfectly targets its core competencyMicrosoft's ability to leverage the tech media's credulity is weakening, as is evident from the emerging skepticism of its ability to deliver upon it…
... could still release standards-compliant vaporware in the form of HoloLens ... it's only dreaming up vaporware at this point. That's ... . Microsoft's core competency is vaporware. -
NYT cites absence of top iOS apps in search of Apple Watch failure<em>The New York Times</em> published a report on Sunday questioning why the new Apple Watch doesn't run Facebook or Snapchat, two titles "missing" f…
... of other uncontested flops or vaporware products that never even made ... -
Intel splits on Atom after the mobile relevance of x86 whacked by Apple's AxIntel is ending production of its mobile Atom processors as the reality sets in of a mobile world where virtually all the profits are inhaled by devi…
... the rumored Surface Phone," a vaporware product that imagined packing a ... -
Actually, there is something new about Apple's upcoming iPhone 7Despite a flurry of incessant news reports maintaining that Apple is poised to bore its customers to death with a completely snooze-worthy iPhone 7 t…
... more than me-too catchup-vaporware imitating Amazon's Echo and ... -
Plastc goes the way of Coin as Apple Pay takes the lead in digital paymentsThe digital wallet race just lost another contestant, with Plastc Card entering bankruptcy and announcing to investors that it will shut down without…
... who had pre-ordered the vaporware device for around $155 each ... -
Editorial: A disappearing computer so big it's invisibleA week away from WWDC17, there's much anticipation about what Apple might show: new Macs, iPads, a Siri Speaker, future insights on the company's vis…
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iPhone X impresses Windows executive, Android fans but bitter bloggers still hatingApple's iPhone X is drawing compliments from some unlikely places, ranging from the official Twitter account of Steven Sinofsky, the former President…
... , arrogant false claim and undelivered vaporware Google has promised, the general ... -
Editorial: The super exciting failure of CES 2018After working hard to dismiss iPhone X as too expensive, AirPods as a very minor success and HomePod as far-off vaporware missing the window of oppor…
... and HomePod as far-off vaporware missing the window of opportunity ... the future--and anything but vaporware. CES: the zombie trade show ... -
Amazon touts 100M Prime users as Apple quietly passes a quarter-billion paid subscriptions...Apple now has a customer base of more than 250 million paid subscriptions across its Services offerings of Apple Music, iCloud and App Store continui…
... ). Spotify's own speaker remains vaporware, and there's little potential ... -
Editorial: Will Apple's 1990's "Golden Age" collapse repeat itself?Once, long ago in a previous epoch of technology, Apple Computer, Inc. commissioned a new headquarters in Northern California just as it began losing…
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The Apple versus Microsoft hardware double-standard rears up again with the latest Surface...Across the last couple years, Apple's new Macs have been roundly criticized for raising their prices using flashy -- rather than purely utilitarian--…
... up vaporware, which it promptly did. The problem is, imagined vaporware is ... -
Apple issues invites to October 30 iPad Pro and Mac 'There's more in the making' event in ...Apple has started to dispatch invitations to the media for an event on October 30, one which is expected to involve the launch of new iPad Pro models…
... that HomePods, AirPods, and presently vaporware AirPower are all conceivable with ... -
Sonos looking to battle Apple & Beats in high-end headphone marketSonos is reportedly poised to challenge Apple and other high-end headphone makers, entering that market by 2020 with some unique features in tow. …
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AirPower wireless charging, new AirPods will ship in first half of 2019Apple will finally get around to releasing its AirPower wireless charging mat and a future generation of AirPods in the first half of 2019, according…
... AirPower would ultimately turn into vaporware, reports in February pointed to ... -
MWC Barcelona 2019 taunts Apple's absence in 5G and foldable screensMedia coverage from this year's MWC Barcelona, nee Mobile World Conference, has worked to establish a narrative that Apple is dangerously behind othe…
... Mac maker while praising the vaporware and dud factories around it ... -
Editorial: Will Apple's 1990's 'Golden Age' collapse repeat itself?Once, long ago, Apple Computer, Inc. commissioned a new headquarters in Northern California just as it began losing its position as a leader in perso…
... customers can buy, not grandiouse vaporware the media can write about ... -
Microsoft's Stranger Things campaign creates a fake legacy for Windows 1.0Microsoft is running a retro-styled advertising campaign tied into the new third season of Netflix's "Stranger Things" TV series, which is set in 198…
... as underpowered, poorly-built vaporware at the time. ... was underhanded, underpowered, unambitious vaporware. Microsoft wasn't a ... completed software. Microsoft invents vaporware with Windows 1.0 ... After Microsoft's initial vaporware announcement in 1983, Apple ... -
Editorial: Are Apple's incremental iOS 13 & macOS Catalina updates enough?This year, iOS 13 and the new macOS Catalina introduce a variety of new features and apps for users, few of which could be described as radically "re…
... with the most blatantly proud vaporware product the computing industry has ...
