Analysts: Apple Needs to Rethink Its TV Strategy
Friday - September 7, 2012
Reports that Apple's ambitions in the television arena have snagged in negotiations with media companies are an indication that the gadget maker's big screen strategy is flawed, according to Trip Chowdry, managing director for equity research at Global Equities Research. "Apple's approach is wrong," he said. Apple is trapped in a chicken-and-egg problem, he explained. "Content providers won't jump on the Apple TV [set] until it has a massive consumer base," he said, "and consumers aren't going to jump on Apple TV until it has a content base."
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OPINION
The Glare of the Spotlight Keeps Apple From Dazzling Us
The Glare of the Spotlight Keeps Apple From Dazzling Us
Thursday - September 6, 2012
Apple's invitation to media professionals made the date official, but September 12 has been the likely date for the company's iPhone 5 rollout event for more than a month. Did that date come from supposition or an outright leak? Doesn't matter. Industry consensus knows that Apple traditionally has an iPod and iTunes sort of announcement in September.
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Amazon Fires Up Kindle for Battle With iPad
Thursday - September 6, 2012
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Thursday announced a slew of new tablets in the company's Kindle line that could give that device family new life. The Kindle Fire HD dominated the announcement. It will be offered in three versions: a 7-inch and two 9-inch varieties.
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CUPERTINO BUSINESS REPORT
Starry-Eyed Apple Watchers Await iPhone 5
Starry-Eyed Apple Watchers Await iPhone 5
Wednesday - September 5, 2012
Apple confirmed it has an announcement in store, sending out invites to a Sept. 12 press event that is expected to be the debut of the highly anticipated next-generation iPhone. Apple has not confirmed it will unveil a new iPhone at the event, but the invite seems to suggest that its newest phone is on its way.
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GAME REVIEW
'Bastion' Blends Monster-Smashing Fun With Great Color Commentary
'Bastion' Blends Monster-Smashing Fun With Great Color Commentary
Tuesday - September 4, 2012
The action role-playing game "Bastion" has been around on the Xbox 360, PC, Mac and a few other places for a while now, but I failed to notice or care until I stumbled upon it in the App Store on my iPad 2. It has fighting action, so that's good. I'm a sucker for hammers, pistols and bows. It has a lush and vivid landscape. Fantastic. And yet none of this sparked me to download and buy.
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BEST OF ECT NEWS
The Apple Retail Store Is Jobs' Most Magnificent Invention
The Apple Retail Store Is Jobs' Most Magnificent Invention
Monday - September 3, 2012
I've changed my mind about the greatest invention of Steve Jobs. It's not the iPhone, it's not the iPod, iTunes, or white earbuds. And it sure as heck isn't the iPad. While the original, friendly, all-in-one Macs certainly broke new ground, I see their basic ideas and form factors as inevitable -- someone, at some point, would have invented something like the iMac eventually.
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Samsung Finds Better Luck Fighting Apple in Japan
Friday - August 31, 2012
In a development that may alleviate some of the pain Samsung's feeling after a U.S. court ruled that it had infringed several Apple patents, a court in Japan has ruled against Apple in a similar case there. Tokyo District Judge Tamotsu Shoji decided that various Samsung mobile devices did not infringe Apple's patent for syncing music and video data with PCs.
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New Parallels Aligns With Mountain Lion, Windows 8
Friday - August 31, 2012
Following the lead of competitor VMware last week, Parallels raised the curtain Thursday on a new release of its software for running Windows software on a Mac computer. Parallels Desktop for Mac 8 will run on the latest version of Apple's OS X operating system, 10.8 Mountain Lion, and supports the upcoming release of Microsoft's operating system, Windows 8.
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OPINION
Don't Count on Apple to Slice Through TV's Gordian Knot
Don't Count on Apple to Slice Through TV's Gordian Knot
Thursday - August 30, 2012
I've been an Apple product enthusiast and watcher for years, and if there's one product that I lusted after two years ago, it was a real Apple TV -- a cool HDTV with a big screen and a kickass Apple navigation system with live content and content on demand. Since then my ardor has cooled considerably.
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Leaked Apple Manual Teaches the Art of Wheeling, Dealing and Empathizing
Wednesday - August 29, 2012
A copy of Apple's proprietary training manual for its Genius Bar was recently leaked to Gizmodo, which promptly published excerpts from it. The manual appears to be highly detailed, covering just about every tech and sales scenario that could be confronted by an Apple Genius at one of the company's retail stores.
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