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Windows 7 Failure?

November 2nd, 2009 | by | apple, micro$oft

Nov
02

So I was checking out CNN today and I found this article titled Mac share grew after Windows 7 debut.

In the article, you’ll see some gems such as this:

If Microsoft (MSFT) was hoping that the launch of Windows 7 would halt the erosion of its operating system market share — and curb further inroads by Apple (AAPL) — there is no evidence that it’s working yet.

In fact, preliminary data released overnight Sunday by Net Applications show Mac OS X’s Internet share growing by 2.73% in October, from 5.12% to 5.26%.

Wow…really? Up 2.73%! Holy crap they’re kicking the crap out of Microsoft. Sell your M$ stock…they’re royally f*cked now!

Not quite.

Microsoft is still at 92.54% of the market share if you can trust these numbers, which are probably pretty accurate. So for those keeping track at home, that means that Microsoft is only up by say 87 points. Its still not even close people. So even though this is a CNN article that links to their fortune.com site, I wouldn’t read too much into this one. Is Apple making some gains, sure. But they’re still so far behind its not even funny.

And I’m an Apple fan!

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AppStore – Happy Birthday!

July 7th, 2009 | by | apple

Jul
07

Wow, the app store is only one. Seems like it should be older with 50,000 apps in the store. Impressive work Apple!

Apple has put together a special link to celebrate some of the top apps of the past year.

Speaking of iPhone Apps… stay tuned for an announcement in the next week concerning a side project that I have been working on. We have some big plans in the works.

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WWDC Predictions Follow UP

June 8th, 2009 | by | apple

Jun
08

Well, the keynote was today at noon CDT, let’s see how I did.

1. The standard stats of how well the iPhones and Apps are selling Yup, got those. And they were impressive! Something along the lines of 50,000 apps, over 1 billion app downloads and somewhere in the range of 40,000,000 iPhones and iPod Touches. Nice!

2. iPhone 3.0 will be released with availability right away for iPhones. Once again iTouches will get the $20-$30 shaft. (Seriously Apple, why do you treat them like second class citizens?) Ok, I was off but only by a little. 3.0 will be available on June 17th. That’s pretty damn close in my book. Once again iPod touch users get the shaft. $9.95 I believe was the upgrade price. C’mon Apple, this is bullshit. They paid for the hardware and updates just like everyone else.

3. Snow Leapard will get a July release date with kick ass Exchange/AD support. I was close again. We knew that there would be kick ass Exchange support in Mail, Contacts and iCal. But we have to wait until September for the update. The good thing is, it will only cost us $29!

4. # No netbook…again! The bloggers will cry party foul. Even CNN will get in on how much Apple has disappointed the rumor mill. I was right, no new netbook. Sure new laptops, but none the ultra portable netbook/tablet everyone is drooling over. I haven’t CNN knock them yet, but its coming.

5. One more thing….Steve Freaking Jobs. He comes out, stock jumps 10 points. No Jobs, No ‘One more thing’, and the stock dropped $0.82 today.

Sure, I picked out some easy predictions. But as a mac/iphone user, there is a lot on the horizon that I am excited to get my hands on. Heck, its midnight and I’m working on finishing up the 3.0 GM install on my phone now =)

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WWDC Predictions

June 8th, 2009 | by | apple

Jun
08

Here is my quick run down of predictions for the keynote:

  • The standard stats of how well the iPhones and Apps are selling
  • iPhone 3.0 will be released with availability right away for iPhones. Once again iTouches will get the $20-$30 shaft. (Seriously Apple, why do you treat them like second class citizens?)
  • Snow Leapard will get a July release date with kick ass Exchange/AD support.
  • No netbook…again! The bloggers will cry party foul. Even CNN will get in on how much Apple has disappointed the rumor mill.
  • One more thing….Steve Freaking Jobs. He comes out, stock jumps 10 points.

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iPhone 3.0 Beta 5 – update

May 29th, 2009 | by | apple

May
29

So far things are still going good. The part that was a bit rough was that when the restore image is used and the phone reboots…its like having a virgin iPhone again. Luckily you can restore your settings from a backup. But man that takes a while to re-install all of your applications and copy over the gigabytes of data. Not very much fun.

The only issue I had with this process was that Frenzic didn’t seem to want to install the first time. Tonight when I plugged the iPhone in, Frenzic installed and worked as I expected. So I’m not sure what happened last night.

Now, with that being said, I do have one nagging issue that Apple needs to fix. The backup restored my applications, application settings etc. But it didn’t keep track of where I had the applications placed. This is a real annoyance given the restore process. A while ago, someone had done a mockup of an application position manager that could be built into iTunes. That would have been pretty handy last night.

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