Category Archives: Apple

It’s all in the simplicity

February 15, 2008 – 11:18 pm

Both Michael Masnick [Techdirt] and Rob Hyndman posted today about the big discussion going on at the Mobile World Congress where they were trying to understand the success of the iPhone. With ideas to copy the success ranging from manipulating users in how their mobile platform experience was to exploring the neural networks to [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Software |

Who pays for this kinda crap

January 17, 2008 – 4:26 pm

Tom’s Hardware has a post on some stupid ass study conducted by Mindset Media that proclaims that 60% of computer buyers were more liberal because they bought a Mac.
Not to mention that these same people are less likely to be modest and more likely to have their heads stuck up their own asses [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Hype |

Cool … A Disposable Laptop

January 15, 2008 – 10:08 pm

I’m not sure which class I would be a part of in Louis Gray’s list of MacWorld Watchers but I have a couple of thoughts on today’s events at MacWorld, even if I am a Windows user and a consumer living in an e-commerce world.
One of the biggies that everyone is talking about and [...]

By Steven Hodson |

The price of popularity

December 23, 2007 – 10:24 pm

Given the recent popularity of apple related postings here and abroad the blogosphere I couldn’t resist posting this cartoon.
Original Cartoon by Ctrl+Alt+Del
Listening to: Mind.in.A.box - Crossroads - Amensia
Conversation Tags: Apple, Mac, humor

By Steven Hodson |

Satire is fine until it bites you on the ass

December 22, 2007 – 4:34 pm

Our society has a long tradition of writing, reading and enjoying satire even to the point that in most countries those producing satirical pieces are protected under the law. Given that most satire is a method of poking fun; in varying degrees of nastiness, humor or light-heartedness depending on who is doing the poking [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet |

Prediction for 2008: consumers say goodbye Microsoft - Hello Apple

December 21, 2007 – 7:01 pm

This is going to be a long term prediction much like the one that Dave Winer made with Martin Nisenholtz of the New York Times about RSS but I think that the possibility of 2008 being the beginning of when Microsoft will start to feel the shift of consumers away from both the operating [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Google, Microsoft, Technology |

A sad day for Apple customers and bloggers

December 20, 2007 – 1:33 pm

As is being noted by a few bloggers today is the day we can all say goodbye to ThinkSecret. If you don’t know who or what ThinkSecret is then you are not a Mac user or are just not interested in all things Apple which is okay but you should care. Even more importantly [...]

By Steven Hodson |

Say good-bye Boot Camp - Hello native Windows install

December 3, 2007 – 8:22 pm

For some time I have maintained that the day that Steve Jobs stood in front of a MacWorld crowd and told the world that OS X will run natively on the PC platform that would be the day that Microsoft would really begin to worry. As utopian as that might sound the chances of it [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Microsoft |