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by Tiernan Ray, Barron's
If the U.S. economy goes into a recession, any public company with an uncanny knack for generating outsize growth may find its shares highly prized by investors.
One such company could be Apple, which despite sales of $24 billion last year, sells just a fraction of the world's personal computers and less than 1% of all cellphones. That tiny market share presents plenty of upside for Apple as it makes inroads in both fields.
by Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
Apple has to settle for a third day delay, to give studios time to rack up DVD sales.
by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
For those who bought before Macworld in hopes of cashing in on a keynote bounce, I have only one word: suckers.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Making MacBook Air that thin is not an easy feat. Now that Apple has done it technically, we shall see whether Apple can make some business sense out of the product.
But, perhaps, because Apple has been so successful lately in getting its products to be nice and thin — iMac, iPod, iPhone, that we are finally getting a little disillusioned. Yeah, yeah, Apple. I know you can make anything thin if you want to. So, what else can you do?
Personally, I value a smaller footprint more than a shorter height in my subnotebook. Light-weight is good, but a MacBook-style thickness, to me, is just fine. I suspect many people think the same way as me, hence all the complaints about the compromises Apple had to make for the MacBook Air.
Going forward, I predict I'll see a lot of predictions about Apple making a "true" subnotebook. (Just like all those predictions about a "true" video iPods.) 12-inch PowerBook-sized MacBook? Newton-sized iPod Touch. I'll also predict that the existing MacBook and MacBook Pro computers will go down in thickness.
And Apple engineers, how's the progress on that foldable screen and keyboard going along?
by Ryan Block, Engadget
Remember how Steve Jobs said people don't watch videos on iPods, dismissing all the Portable Media Player thingies from Creative and gang? Wanna bet what's next for iPhone and iPod after Apple finally conquered Hollywood? :-)
by Dan Frommer, Silicon Alley Insider
Google can get into the phone business and make its parnters — both its advertisers and the wireless carriers — happy.
But what about Apple, the partner?
by Violet Blue
Steve Wozniak was so much nicer.
by Robert L. Mitchell, Computerworld
Faced with an upgrade to Vista, some IT organizations are passing in favor of the Mac. But who are they, really?
by Brett Terpstra, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
If Apple is charging for the iPod Touch upgrade to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, why is the Apple TV upgrade free? I'm left with the feeling that they're charging $20 for the iPod Touch upgrade simply because they can.
by Cicso Cheng, PC Magazine
These are respectable compromises. That's not to say that there isn't room for improvement—because there is—but fornow, the MacBook Air will captivate millions based on looks alone.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
Unlike the MacBook and MacBook Pro, the Air isn't designed to be a general-purpose computer; it has, by design, limitations that will be unacceptable for many people. But for a particular market—people who value light weight and are willing to give up other features to get it—it's an interesting machine.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by Dan Moren, Macworld
Overall, 1.1.3 may not be as exciting an update as 1.1.1 was, but it reaffirms Apple's commitment to rolling out new software functionality to existing iPhone users, free of charge.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
by Paul Boutin, Slate
I don't care about having the world's skinniest laptop. Rather, I need to be able to blog breaking news when I'm not near a Wi-Fi hotspot. I look forward to fawning over my friends' new MacBooks. But when they despeartely need to e-mail the boss, I'll just savor the triumph of whipping out my phone.
by Aayush Arya, MacUser
by Jim Dalrymple and Jason Snell, Macworld
by Jake Widman, Computerworld
You'll find that Office 2008 helps you get your work done more quickly and easily than before. You're also likely to start using features that were always there but were too much trouble to bother with.
by Brian Chen, Macworld
by Agam Shah, IDG News Service
Omission of FireWire port, lack of storage capacity, slow hard drive, and high price tag are some of the complaints Mac users have about Apple's latest laptop.
Thin, it seems, is not on many people's wishlist for a subnotebook.
by Farhad Manjoo, Salon
The iPhone you bought last June is actually better now than it was back then.
The magic of software!
by Ed Moltzen, CRN
Apple is making good on Oppenheimer's promise of adding solid, new iPhone functionality, at no additional cost to buyers, every few months.
by Chua Hian Hou, Straits Times
Singapore consumers who want to get their hands on Apple's iPhone, hailed as Time Magazine's gadget of the year for 2007, will have to wait.
The reason: None of the three mobile phone operators here has been able to lock down a deal with the California-based tech giant.
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