Tag Archives: Personal computer
Apple’s legendary adman Lee Clow talks about Steve Jobs and branding Apple [video]
BI notes that Clow, who has been making Apple ads since the 80s, shared some memories from his 30-year relationship with Jobs at a PTTOW! summit.
When Thunderbolt adoption goes mainstream, this is your 10GB/s 128GB Thumb drive
The chicken and egg adoption/price reductions of Thunderbolt haven’t yet made the devices accessible to most storage shoppers. That didn’t stop Thunderbolt’s inventor, Intel from Frankenstein-ing an otherworldly thumb drive with a Thunderbolt interface and 128GB of fast storage. Internally, the drive has SanDisk SSD (why not Intel’s own?) storage and probably has a bottleneck giving […]
Founder of Apple’s Human Interface Group talks potential for an iWatch
Bruce Tognazzini, Apple employee #66 and founder of Apple’s Human Interface Group, published his thoughts on a potential smart watch product from the company (via MG Siegler) yesterday. While we have seen the launch of several Bluetooth smart watch products from startups this year, Tognazzini thought a watch from Apple could “have a profound impact on our [...]
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Microsoft Surface: ‘a car that flies and floats?’
. At Apple’s Q4 earnings call today, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked his thoughts on Microsoft’s new Surface tablet PC. Cook called it “a fairly compromised, confusing product,” and he compared it to a car that flies and floats: ”I haven’t personally played with a Surface yet… what we’re reading about it is… it’s [...]
Gartner and IDC see Apple’s share of declining US PC market grow to 12.5-percent to 13.6-percent
Both IDC and Gartner are out with their reports for PC shipments in the third quarter today. While Apple is not in the top five vendors for worldwide shipments, estimates from the two firms place Apple’s share of the United States market at 12.5-percent to 13.6-percent. According to IDC’s numbers (above), Apple captured 12.5-percent of [...]
Apple extends complimentary iCloud storage for MobileMe users until September 30th 2013
9to5Mac readers who migrated from MobileMe are reporting that their complimentary extra storage has been extended an extra year. Apple’s support doc is here. From: iCloud <noreply@icloud.com> Date: October 5, 2012, 3:38:18 PM PDT To: 9to5mac Subject:Your complimentary iCloud storage upgrade has been extended at no charge Reply-To:no-reply@apple.com When you moved your MobileMe account to iCloud, we provided you with [...]
Apple tops ACSI September report with 86 out of 100 in customer satisfaction
The American Customer Satisfaction Index is out today with its September report for appliances, computers, televisions and video players/recorders. Not surprisingly, Apple is able to maintain its lead among personal computers despite a drop of 1-point to 86 over previous reports. While the report noted Apple continued to lead the category by a margin of [...]
Apple tops ACSI September report with 86% customer satisfaction
The American Customer Satisfaction Index is out today with its September report for appliances, computers, televisions, and video players/recorders. Not surprisingly, Apple is able to maintain its lead among personal computers despite a drop of 1% to 86 over previous reports. While the report noted Apple continued to lead the category by a margin of [...]
$259 Smartphone receipt printer? Can I get a smartphone Floppy Drive too?!
This ‘Little Printer’ thing is making the rounds today (right). It is a cute $259 (plus $30 shipping to U.S.) Cloud printer that prints on a receipt-size roll of paper from a smartphone using some special software. I am not feeling it, but I imagine there will be some special use cases. As The Verge [...]
Gartner report shows PCs have peaked and may begin the long road to obscurity
We’re starting to see the ‘Cars and Trucks’ model unfold as PC sales are starting to slip dramatically. Among the top 5 vendors in the U.S. PC market, all but Apple experienced a decline in shipments according to a Gartner report late this evening. This isn’t your average “Apple beat the PC industry every quarter [...]
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