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And, they WILL welcome it. When you’re waiting for the next big thing, Apple can sometimes seem so slow and plodding. However, from the competition’s perspective, the Cupertino kids are always more than a step ahead. On Thursday, the company killed of their consumer/education MacBook portable and, then Friday, released a special education [...] Related [...]

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When you’re waiting for the next big thing, Apple can sometimes seem so slow and plodding. However, from the competition’s perspective, the Cupertino kids are always more than a step ahead. On Thursday, the company killed of their consumer/education MacBook portable and, then Friday, released a special education only version of the MacBook [...] Related [...]

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Apple is rather predictable, except when it isn’t. As relates to the long-rumored iPad 3, it seems that Cupertino will be eschewing the road less traveled with a growing body of rumorological evidence pointing an event to and release right about the same time as last year. And, like 2011, 2012 is expected [...] Related [...]

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When Apple quietly dropped the consumer notebook last July, the company kept offering the durable white portable in the polycarbonate enclosure to education buyers. No more. Once reckoned as the best selling Macintosh in history by market metrics firm NPD, Apple has informed resellers that it has stopped all sales of the white [...] Related [...]

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Cool things beget cool things and here’s a prime example of that axiom in action. A Mac, any Mac, used together with an iPad is a powerful combination for productivity — keep all your work in front you and within reach. Here’s a great way to do that with a lot of style [...] Related [...]

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Bacon wrapped shrimp samples and Apple’s latest MacBook Air — could there be a better combination? Both Walmart and Sam’s Club stores in these oddly dysfunctional United States both carry the iPod, iPhone and iPad. Soon, however, America’s second-favorite warehouse chain might offer Apple’s Macintosh product line, as well, or so the rumor [...] Related [...]

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]]> http://blorge.com/2012/02/07/the-macintosh-coming-to-a-sam%e2%80%99s-club-near-you/feed/ 0 Apple answers critics, tweaks iBooks Author EULA http://blorge.com/2012/02/04/apple-answers-critics-tweaks-ibooks-author-eula/ http://blorge.com/2012/02/04/apple-answers-critics-tweaks-ibooks-author-eula/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:00:05 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/02/04/apple-answers-critics-tweaks-ibooks-author-eula/

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Apple ships a new product and there’s an uproar. The fans rejoice, seeing all that is good, while the haters, well… Here we are again and Cupertino’s latest opus, or at least the first movement thereof, has caused quite a still. Though the hand ringers are unlikely to go silent, there isn’t much [...] Related [...]

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]]> http://blorge.com/2012/02/04/apple-answers-critics-tweaks-ibooks-author-eula/feed/ 0 The new Apple: Cook gives $50m to Stanford http://blorge.com/2012/02/02/the-new-apple-cook-gives-50m-to-stanford/ http://blorge.com/2012/02/02/the-new-apple-cook-gives-50m-to-stanford/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:40:03 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/02/02/the-new-apple-cook-gives-50m-to-stanford/

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Under Steve Jobs, the Cupertino, California-based Mac, iPhone, iPad and world style maker was widely criticized for being tight fisted with its money. However, even as Apple stacks on more cash — the company pegs reserves at more than $90 billion — the company’s new chief executive has loosened the purse strings and [...] Related [...]

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The version Apple shipped in June 2011 was greeted with both cheers and jeers. The admixture of superior editing and performance characteristics contrasted sharply with missing features, such as multicam support, backward compatibility and collaboration tools. With this release, Apple has addressed the great majority of problems while significantly upping the performance ante. [...] Related [...]

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The alpha has roared and it’s just a simple matter of math, adding two numbers together to arrive at one gloriously ginormous sum. Whereas some still argue about whether or not Apple’s iPad is a computer, the beans counters are starting to fall in line with the reality on the ground — the [...] Related [...]

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A significant number of the allegations against the companies manufacturing Apple products in China made by the New York Times are based on quotes and information attributed to a “BSR consultant.” But, who is BSR and why do so many people keep reporting on the issue as if Apple has direct control over [...] Related [...]

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From the late 19th Century through mid-20th Century, it was the United States that was the world’s workshop and we have the human, social and environmental scars to prove it. China’s now going through those growing pains and the people actually living there in the here and now have a very different response [...] Related [...]

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Record Mac, iPad and iPhone sales, and the company didn’t just exceed expectations. For example, whereas there was discussion about how many iPhones Apple sold, with the end estimates in the 35 million range, the company actually sold more than 37 million units. The Cupertino kids likewise well exceeded iPad guestimates, shipping nearly [...] Related [...]

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Back in 1999, the original iBook was the first production, mass market computer to ship with 802.11b networking built in. Since then the company was the first major vendor to market with faster and faster versions of wi-fi. And, by that I mean Apple chose to ship months and sometimes year before the [...] Related [...]

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Or, how to succeed without really trying. Of course, it would be silly to say that Apple isn’t trying or that the company doesn’t have a strategy. However, Cupertino’s corporate sales force isn’t on the payroll, yet Mac, iPhone and iPad sales into the enterprise keep rising by double and triple digits. Analysts [...] Related [...]

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One of the last unfinished thoughts Steve Jobs left us with was textbooks. Walter Isaacson’s seminal biography of the Apple co-founder teased that the next textbook publishing was the next industry the iconic technology visionary was seeking to revolutionize. That was the promise and today Apple has delivered the vision, as well as [...] Related [...]

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By a big margin or just a little? A consensus of analysts, more than 85 percent of amateur and professional, estimate that Apple shipped more Mac last quarter than they did in the September quarter, which was yet another record for a company that has outgrown the industry for six years. And, iPhones? [...] Related [...]

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Who doesn’t like a juicy palace intrigue? To date there’s no visible hint of that at 1 Infinite Loop, but the potential — a nice enough place to start — for one exists. Although there’s no question Steve Jobs wanted Tim Cook to run the company, a new book also makes it clear [...] Related [...]

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