New Mac netbooks have long been a staple of the Mac rumor mill. But Apple has fairly convincingly put that rumor to bed with recent public statements. I’m unsurprised that Apple is not interested in the low-margin netbook market. While netbooks can be tremendously useful, they don’t fit Apple’s sweet spot.
Another longstanding chunk of vaporware, [...]
As we all know, patent filings don’t mean the patents in question will ever see the light of day in a product. But it’s fun to imagine a notebook tablet Mac. In fact, I’ve been wishing Apple would create some sort of lightweight hybrid cross between a Newton and a MacBook for years now. Perhaps [...]
Last week Apple showed how serious it is about making the iPhone a business device. The company rolled out a long-awaited software developer kit, announced the iPhone App Store, showed off slick new iPhone games from third-party developers, talked up first-class support for Microsoft Exchange server, pitched security features, and demoed AOL Instant Messenger for [...]
Edward Tufte, the guru of information graphics, uses the term Phluff to describe the effect PowerPoint slides can have on serious analysis. In The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, he describes Phluff as “a preoccupation with format not content, an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch.”
Phluff is everywhere, and for the most [...]
With the recent introduction of the Modbook, MacBook Air and rumors of a coming refresh to the MacBook lineup bouncing across the ‘Net, I’ve started wondering what the ultimate law school laptop might be like.
It would of course run Mac OS X. It would have to cost less than $2k retail in the United States [...]