Posts Tagged ‘iPod’

Tech quote of the day

Posted: 1st September 2010 by Brant in biz, tech
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Image via CrunchBase [People] don’t want a computer on their TV. They have computers. They go to their wide-screen TVs for entertainment. Not to have another computer. This is a hard one for people in the computer industry to understand, but it’s really easy for consumers to understand. They get it. – Apple CEO Steve [...]

Apple media event today

Posted: 1st September 2010 by Brant in biz, tech
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At 1 pm Eastern today, Apple is hosting a media event to announce new products. For the first time that I am aware of, Apple will stream the event live on the Web.  Note you can only watch with the right hardware/software. Apple announced that the stream will only be viewable on an OS X [...]

Apple announces order date for iPad and stock pops

Posted: 6th March 2010 by Brant in tech
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This information was not really new. But Apple stock tends to move for unknown reasons. Disclosure: I am long in AAPL. Nothing on this blog should be treated as investment advice.

Steve Jobs: CEO of the decade

Posted: 5th November 2009 by Brant in biz, culture, tech
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Fortune Magazine has named Steve Jobs CEO of the decade.  And he certainly deserves the title. How’s this for a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securities-law scandal, an also-ran product lineup, [...]

Apple slashes (existing) iPod prices (updated)

Posted: 9th September 2009 by Brant in culture, tech
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Apple today reduced the prices on their existing iPod line by $20 to $120, depending on the model. At 1 pm today, eastern, Apple has a music related event at which new iPods are expected to be announced. I assume that the new models will replace the current models and the pre-reduction price. So, the [...]