Category: apple
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The Tech Crunch ‘Apple Backlash’ Myth
Roughly Drafted takes it to the Apple Haterz at TC: “Anyone who can lay out an iPhone along with its recent competitors (never mind those previous generations of lame “iPhone-Killers” they presented in 2007 and again in 2008) and say with a straight face that the only advantage Apple has is its ability to make…
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Re: the lack of movies/tv on the Japanese iTunes Store
Is the lack of movie rentals and television shows on the Japanese iTunes Store due somehow to the powerful copyright lobby in Japan? JASRAC and JIMCAare more litigious than even the RIAA and MPAA in the US. Furthermore they are linked via Iron Triangle to MEXT. Moreover, Japan’s television industry is still mostly terrestrial, and…
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How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed?
I agree: delivery by disk image is far too complicated for the lay user. I have to explain this concept nearly every day. Just the fact that there are three different install paradigms for OS X (drag-and-drop, double click to install, and .pkg type installers) should be a signal that something is wrong. How Should…
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“fuck |fək| vulgar slang” I can’t believe the vulgarity in Apple’s OS X Dictionary. As we speak, millions of OS X users have no idea there’s an “eff word” right on their Mac. Right there. In their home. Where their spouse sleeps. Where their children play with their toys. When will Apple finally clean up…
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“fuck |fək| vulgar slang” I can’t believe the vulgarity in Apple’s OS X Dictionary. As we speak, millions of OS X users have no idea there’s an “eff word” right on their Mac. Right there. In their home. Where their spouse sleeps. Where their children play with their toys. When will Apple finally clean up…
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Safari’s Flash plugin is sandboxed on Snow Leopard. Bertrand says Flash is number one cause of app crashes on Mac OS X. Daring Fireball @ WWDC (via adobegripes)
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Apple tops PC, DMP and mobile phone customer satisfaction in Japan
Results from a survey which ran from January to December 2008. The only category where Apple had a product offering but didn’t top the list was Computer Monitors. On a sidenote, the DSLR that I have been lusting after (Nikon D90) topped the digital camera class. via nobi Apple tops PC, DMP and mobile phone…
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Japanese computer maker brand image: then and now
What Japan Thinks posts a survey from MyVoice investigating computer maker brand image. The survey was conducted last month. I went through their older surveys and found an earlier one with similar content done in 2002. I pulled out all the Apple relevant bits for your enjoyment. You can see the original findings in their…
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MOSA
An NPO supporting Macintosh software developers in Japan. Other than ADC this seems to be the only place Japanese devs can get support. MOSA
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The Atlantic: Can Apple manage without Steve Jobs?
Harris Collingwood gathers some interesting leadership studies to find the effects of CEOs on corporations. However, I would have liked to have seen a study on the effects of perceptions of CEOs on publicly traded businesses. It seems to me that this is the question facing the reaction to Jobs’s supposed comeback next month. The…