Love the Mac: Apple in Wireless: Strategic Options in a Converged Marketplace

Love the Mac > Apple in Wireless: Strategic Options in a Converged Marketplace

[Business Market Research Reports : BharatBook.com] Apple shipped over 14 million iPods during the quarter, representing 207% year-on-year growth, and It’s estimates total shipments of over 40 million iPods. Thanks to close synergies and integration with the iPod, over one billion tracks have been downloaded from the iTunes Music Store.

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[Comments for Tech IT Easy] Comment on I Love how Apple’s logistics work by Vincent van Wylick: Sorry Marc, but I fail to see how the Macbook Air sharing the same screen-size as the Macbook, or the same hard-drive as the iPod, contributes to the User-experience. The user couldn’t care less what synergies Apple benefits from on the supply-side.

[Mac Predictions] Top 10 analyst misconceptions about Apple: Companies like Sony lost market share to Apple by focusing solely on hardware in an age where electronics and the Internet were making a new range of devices possible that required tight hardware/software integration. The market had shifted in Apple’s favour, and Apple seized the opportunity with confidence.

[Comments for Tech IT Easy] Comment on I Love how Apple’s logistics work by Vincent van Wylick: I imagine the iPod-harddrive will be crippling for one. I’m just amazed how, on the one side, you can try to be innovative, and on the other, find synergies with existing product-components to keep costs down.

[Scrawled in Wax] Portable Movies: Another Great Idea Ruined by Proprietary DRM: After all, does anyone really expect Sony to open this up to the Zune, Sansa View or, heaven forbid, the ubiquitous iPod? As Apple before them, Sony are coaxing you into their hardware universe by making sure their content plays on .

[The Raging Tech] MacWorld 2008 Keynote Address Today at Noon: There are flame wars upon flame wars about the specs of certain manufacturer’s Windows PCs being better - but bar none, Apple is a software-hardware synergy dynamo with no sign of stopping anytime soon.

[Applekoolaid.com] PC Makers Take A Stylish Turn To Tackle Apple: At the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, during a keynote speech by Chairman Bill Gates, Microsoft will hold a PC "fashion show" with judges -- including Nigel Barker of "America's Next Top Model" -- to size up various machines and pick three winning designs. One advantage of rubbing elbows in the fashion set: Asustek says it is now discussing with Macy's ways to promote its Asus PCs at the retailer.

[The Web of Language] Is the internet killing literacy, or pumping new life into it?: One computer visionary thinks this growing illiteracy is actually good for business: Apple Computer’s Steve Jobs rejected a suggestion that Amazon’s hot new e-book reader, the oddly-named Kindle, which sold out the day it went on sale, ...

[Zune Thoughts.com] Anythingbutipod's Anti-Wish List: Microsoft should not be like Apple here: they should put some power in the purchaser's hands to expand their device if they want to, and not pull an Apple where they decide how much memory you should have on your device. ...

[Smart Phones of today] iPhone vs the competition: The year 2007 saw a revolution in cell phones when Apple launched its iPhone. Having set the standard, other companies scrambled to develop a new and better iPhone-like cell phone to compete.

[Lotus Rock Star] The 13 People You Meet at Lotusphere: Then you realize that this guy is podcasting 84 times during Lotusphere, has set up a studio near the Dolphin Rotunda, and is personally skipping all but the opening and closing sessions, which he will liveblog shorthand up to his blog in unintelligible prose for the less fortunate to read. His goal in life is to wear out your RSS reader and take up as much room as possible on your iPod, crowding out that last episode of Heroes you really wanted to see.