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Is Something Wrong with Apple?

July 29th, 2008

All right, I hear the excuses raging through my mind. Apple was overwhelmed with the unprecedented response to the introduction of the iPhone 3G in over 20 countries, release of the iPhone 2.0 software and the debut of the Apps Store. Add to that came the major transition of .Mac to MobileMe, and they were asking for trouble.

Well, so far as I can see, the App Store seems to be running all right, although some developers are complaining that they can’t get their updates posted quickly enough. Another group wants the NDA removed, so they can share information and code with their fellow travelers and create a better community that can deliver superior, more bug-free products.

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The Leopard Report: Is it Time for a Subscription Program?

June 6th, 2007

In interviewing author Kirk McElhearn for this week’s episode of The Tech Night Owl LIVE, we got to talking about whether Apple should look at some alternatives for distributing Mac OS X and some of its consumer-level digital life products.

Today, you can buy Tiger for $129 for the single-user package. A .Mac subscription is $99 per year, and a copy of the latest iLife — still stuck at ‘06 — is $79. Now Steve Jobs has admitted that .Mac hasn’t really progressed as far as it could or should, other than to add some minor frills, a fancier Web-based email interface and a storage upgrade.

I’m not about to suggest where .Mac can go. I’m a member, partly out of inertia I suppose, though I do use the iDisk occasionally as a method to send and receive large files that my email server will choke over.

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Newsletter #367 Preview: The Tiger Report: Overcoming Inertia

December 11th, 2006

On a fairly regular basis, I talk about the problems remaining in Mac OS X, despite five major releases.

First, the positives: Each update is said to be faster and more supremely stable than the previous release, in contrast to Microsoft, which as onerous system requirements for Windows Vista, requirements that up to half of the existing PCs cannot meet. Indeed, unless you have a very powerful PC, the Vista experience is apt to be second-rate, with some of its fancier graphical features disabled.

Now there is really no official word on what systems will be supported and what systems might be left behind with Leopard. Some suggest you won’t be able to run it on a G3, which leaves behind iBooks that will be barely four years old when Leopard arrives.

Of course, those computers don’t really do that great a job with Tiger either, so maybe it’s time for them to be retired or set up to handle backup chores, or used as a dedicated fax machine or phone management computer.

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