Category Archives: Apple

When ‘cool’ trumps openness and transparency

June 11, 2008 – 6:02 pm

I was reading a post this morning by Felix from #comment where he suggested that Apple is the new Microsoft and about halfway through my read an interesting thought occurred to me. While his points were mainly geared to actually comparing the two corporations and how they do business I found myself looking at [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet, Microsoft |

Don’t blame Apple for that sucking sound around your wallet

June 10, 2008 – 3:45 pm

As I was reading through the pile of Apple and iPhone related posts that inundated my feed reader this morning (surprise surprise) I had a glimmer of an idea for a post to write. It had all the earmarks of being a popular post especially since it would suitably rile up the Apple contingent [...]

By Steven Hodson |

More ways to get OS X goodness on a PC

May 14, 2008 – 1:26 pm

As Apple continues to chip away at the PC market and the dominance of Windows we are seeing more people being willing to give the Mac a good honest try. One of the biggest holdbacks; right or wrong, is the perception that Mac’s cost more than a comparable PC running Windows. So many people [...]

By Steven Hodson |

Stowe Boyd’s Future OS - reading the tea leaves

May 4, 2008 – 4:02 pm

Back on April 21st Stowe Boyd had an interesting post about what he thought a future operating system should be which caught my attention and that I have gone back to a few times since then. In his usual style Stowe gives a good balance opinion of why operating systems; both Windows and Mac, [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet, Microsoft |

4,000 new users - someone pass the aspirin

April 25, 2008 – 7:24 pm

I just saw this floating around FriendFeed as several folks linked to different reports of the same thing. That being that Salesforce.com is rumored to be ditching the PC platform and moving all their 4,000 employees onto brand new Macs. Apparently this is being done for the singular reason of security with the thinking [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Hype, Internet |

Mary Jo Foley - the unfortunate pitchperson for Apple

March 24, 2008 – 2:48 pm

As I pointed out the other day in one of my From the Pipeline roundup post Apple has been taking what has to be a very expensive swipe at Microsoft and Vista with its latest ad campaign that is being played on Windows oriented sites. I hadn’t seen the ads first hand until today when [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Microsoft |

Can Microsoft switch to cool?

March 22, 2008 – 4:56 pm

Brett Nordquist had an interesting post today where he was wondering how Microsoft can possibly remain relevant. In this post he uses the kids from his local church who have cell phones, iPods and are more interested in video games than operating systems.
As he points out - kids today are more interested in Microsoft [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Microsoft |

Computer concepts bug my ass

March 1, 2008 – 3:20 pm

Seriously they do - but not in a bad way.
No they bug me more in the why are you teasing the hell out of me with something so beautiful but we will never see type of bugging. A good example - just look at these pictures

Got your drool on yet? Well here’s the back view

If [...]

By Steven Hodson |