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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Political quote of the day (update)
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Fresno looks like Detroit. It’s awful.
– Meg Whitman, GOP candidate for governor of California.
Related articles
- Meg Whitman Slammed By Detroit Mayor For ‘Awful’ Comment (huffingtonpost.com)
- Whitman compares economy in Fresno to Detroit (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- Whitman compares economy in Fresno to Detroit (sfgate.com)
- Detroit to Whitman: Invest in struggling cities (sfgate.com)
Update: Who remembers “Fresno” the parody of nighttime soap operas like Dynasty and Dallas back in the 80s? Fresno, the world’s raisin capital.
Scientific American ♥s semen
No, really.
Health quote of the day
- Cover of Love Bites
It’s still easier to get herpes than bedbugs …
– “good” news from the article “Love Bites: Dating in the Age of Bedbugs” from the Wall Street Journal.
Blu-ray is dead
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How do I know Blu-ray is dead as a format? Because the idea of securing a physical manifestation of media, in the year 2010, is close to silly. Between Neflix streaming, Hulu Plus, YouTube, and other Internet streaming capability, video and audio podcasts, and on-demand cable, there is almost nothing that I want to watch or listen to that isn’t available in a non-tangible form. How many hours a day can one reasonably view media anyway? Make of list of what you want to view (in HD or not) and then look around a bit and cross off what is available now online. And what little remaining “content” is unavailable over the Internet will be available within a year or two.
But the clincher supporting the passing of Blu-ray is that even Microsoft thinks Blu-ray is over.
We all should shed a (virtual) tear or two for the end of media crammed into a physical object that one could collect, organize and even take a certain pride in owning. Having shed that tear, we can then rejoice that the media conglomerates will not again be able to charge us a second (or third or fourth) time for the same items we already own but which are merely transferred into a different, and rarely better, tangible container.
Related articles
- Microsoft Xbox Chief Predicts Doom & Gloom For Blu-ray [He's Right, Too] (crunchgear.com)
- “Who needs Blu-ray?” quips UK Xbox chief as downloads dominate (slashgear.com)
- Microsoft Bashes Blu-Ray (escapistmagazine.com)
- Microsoft, Apple in sync on Blu-ray (blogs.chron.com)
- Xbox Head Proclaims Blu-ray Dead (games.slashdot.org)
- Microsoft: “Who needs Blu-ray?” (zdnet.com)
iPhone highest rated smartphone
For the fourth consecutive year, the iPhone is the highest rated smartphone in JD Power’s customer satisfaction survey.
For a fourth consecutive time, Apple ranks highest in customer satisfaction among manufacturers of smartphones with a score of 800 on a 1,000-point scale, and performs particularly well in ease of operation, operating system, features and physical design. Motorola (791) and HTC (781) follow Apple in the rankings.
Not surprised.
Related articles
- Apple No. 1 in smartphone satisfaction survey (news.cnet.com)
- iPhone pips Motorola and HTC in smartphone satisfaction survey (slashgear.com)
- iPhone tops J.D. Power’s customer satisfaction survey for 4th year in a row (tech.fortune.cnn.com)
God is real
And this proves it! BAM!
Jobsbert
OK Go (with friends)
This is cute, particularly if you like dogs.
Best search tool ever
Today I stumbled upon E-Z-Find. Check out the video for simple instructions. Incredibly easy new search tool. Highly recommended. (via Daring Fireball)
Questions of Obama
Jon Stewart reacts to the questions posed by the public to the President in his recent town hall meeting.
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Republican bigots
In the Senate.
The true face priest child abuse
The abuse was bad enough, but when victims came forward they often were abused again. ( Via John Perry Barlow)
Market share v. profits (updated)
I have written about this before, but there is some new information out. Once again, in the cellphone marketplace, while Apple has a small share of the total units sold, it has a stunning share of industry profits from cellphones.
For example, … Apple sold 17 million mobile handsets in the first half of 2010, compared with 400 million handsets sold by Nokia (NOK), Samsung and LG. Yet it pulled in 39% of the industry’s profit during that period, more than the 32% earned by the world’s three largest handset makers combined.
Apple is a hardware company that couples sleek industrial design with beautifully designed custom software to sell hardware. Apple successfully crafts devices that are viewed as unique and attractive, thereby allowing the company to play in the (smaller) high end of the space. In another example, Apple has about a 7% unit share of the personal computer market (not counting iPads), yet it earns 35% of the PC industry profit.
Which would you rather have: the biggest share of the profits or the biggest share of the market?
Disclosure: I own Apple stock.
Update: Of course, delivering consumer satisfaction doesn’t hurt either.
Related articles
- Apple’s Impressive Share Of Mobile Industry Profits [Pie Chart] (macstories.net)
- iPhone profits greatly exceed number of phones sold (electronista.com)
- Can Android change the distribution of profit among phone vendors? (asymco.com)
Rejoining the Apple family (updated)
Apple computers are great tools for the visually impaired. How great? Read this blog post by a blind (or visually impaired) man on his love of his new iMac.
Related articles
- iPhone’s VoiceOver Helps A Blind Person “See” (cultofmac.com)
Update: In other Apple news, the stock today hit a new intraday high and a new closing high. As you know, if you read this blog, I do own Apple stock.
