by Jason Wilk on July 13, 2009
- The China Times is reporting that the Apple tablet is dropping in October for around $800. Besides a patent registration and Wozniak’s Axiotron Tablet, there has been no other official news to sway us into believing the computer is actually real. Here is a translation of the article today:
Taiwan’s high-tech supply chain companies said Apple will debut its first netbook in October; Apple will pose itself to tackle the Christmas shopping season. Three corporations – Foxconn, Wintek, Dynapack have received direct orders from Apple.
- Wintek is mentioned in the story, a company previously said to have supplied a bunch of touchscreen panels to Apple for use in a tablet (which was false). Assuming this is true, it’s still just a hardware rumor and gives us no details on the OS, which could be the most compelling part.
- As far as I’m concerned, the biggest issue will be if it’s going to have an accelerometer so I can play my iPhone games on a full screen. Score.
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by Jason Wilk on March 18, 2009
- Talks began swirling today about IBM attempting to walk away with Sun for $6.5B. Sun, a company that is still rich with talent, CASH, technology and engineers, may be talking to the wrong successor. With increased entry into server market by Cisco and HP, IBM would be buying its way into an industry that is seeing shrinking margins on top of inheriting a gigantic workforce. Most likely, IBM sees an opportunity to buy it’s way into a burgeoning market that they don’t want to be left out of. Furthermore, many of Suns assets can be individually sold immediately to other buyers like Fujitsu who are prime to buy the hardware side of Sun’s business.
- I agree with Om that no one is better equipped to buy and manage Sun than Cisco Systems. Om says
Despite its bold entry into “unified computing” with the launch of a new line of blade servers, Cisco is a newbie in the field and its product line so far is limited. Sun has a vast array of products, not to mention significant software resources (MySQL) for Cisco’s vision of unified and cloud computing and the sales channels and existing customers to help execute it. (IBM has all those things already, and it can pick up new customers via Sun.) More importantly, it has engineers — the very people Cisco values most and historically a strong factor in the networking giant’s acquisition decisions.
- IBM does not “need” Sun, it just gives them a power play. Cisco is the real one that could use a boost buy pushing to make this deal theirs. It could save them a decade of time in catching up with the rest of the data center moguls. IBM buying Sun only pushes the further away.
by Jason Wilk on February 9, 2009
- Psystar Corp. can continue its counter suit against Apple Inc. over the debate of whether or not the “HackAMack” company can continue to sell it’s computers preloaded with Mac OS X software said a Judge on Friday.
- Although they lost the battle over suing Apple for anti-trust in November, Psystar’s countersuit instead argues that Apple has stretched copyright laws by tying the Mac operating system to its hardware. If Psystar proves that Apple abused copyright laws, some of Apple’s charges against the company will be overturned.
- This has the potential to be a cutting blow to Apple and it’s future as an OEM. It would mean other manufacturers would then be free to follow in Psystar’s footsteps, letting anyone (on a case by case basis) to sell machines with Apple software loaded up.
- Apple must answer the counter suit within 20 days. Don’t expect anything to happen quickly, the case is currently scheduled to begin trial on Nov. 9 in order to allow both companies to head into discovery phase.
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by Jason Wilk on February 5, 2009
- In an effort to thwart off time-theft and loiterers, Apple has decided to add Facebook to the list of banned websites at retail locations nationwide. When I asked some of the genius’ today whether or not anyone noticed the change, they all said that Facebook stopped working sometime in the past week. One of the genius’ said “Apple Stores have become a regular Internet Cafe, so placing the most popular time-killer [Facebook] of them all on the banned-list will certainly help everyone get a chance to test out the computers”.
- As you may have heard, MySpace was banned in May of 2007 from all Apple Stores. When asked why, Apple said “Nearly 2 million people visit Apple Stores every week. We want to provide everyone a chance to test-drive a Mac, so we are no longer offering access to MySpace in our stores.” Apple Stores, which now total 251 worldwide, see an average of 15,744 visitors weekly per store (Q4, 2008). So, currently about 16 million people per month are now denied the right to jump on for a minute (or an hour) to update their status or do their daily stalking. It will be interesting if Facebook will see a slight dip in traffic this month due to the change.
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