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iPhone 5C: A Margin Play
Now that the 5C is out, and it’s only $100 cheaper than the 5S, it’s clear that it’s a margin play by Apple. Normally, Apple sells the previous year’s model at a $100 discount, so the 5 would be $100...
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iOS is Dead! Long Live iOS!
The meaning of the phrase “The King is Dead! Long Live the King!” may be lost on many Americans, as we don’t have a monarchy. It’s an apparent contradiction, and seems baffling. It has its roots in...
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The Real Reason Microsoft is Porting OneNote to the Mac: An Apple Acquisition
The Verge has reported that Microsoft is planning on releasing OneNote for the Mac. While Evernote is certainly a target, I think there’s more to the story than that. There are also rumors of iOS 8...
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Will Healthbook/Passbook be a New UI Paradigm in iOS 8?
9to5Mac reports this morning on mocked up screenshots of what Healthbook might look like. Healthbook is the new health & fitness tracking app that is said to be in iOS 8. Apple already makes the...
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Ford, BlackBerry, iPhone, Apple, and IBM: Calling BYOD into Question
Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Ford Motor Co. was ditching all its BlackBerry phones and migrating all of those users to iPhones. This sentence in the report really stood out: Having all employees...
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Why the iPhone 6’s will be Probably be This Screen Size
In my previous post (2 Reasons Why the iPhone 6 Won’t Need to be 1.5x Retina Resolution), I explained why Apple isn’t so constrained about the rumored iPhone 6 screen sizes. That blog post was long...
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Apple software quality: is the sky really falling?
There’s been a lot of hand-wringing for the past few months about the perceived quality of Apple’s software, and it seems to have reached fever pitch with yesterday’s post by Marco Arment...
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The Apple Watch is the New iPhone—and the iPhone is the New iPad
Apple had a plan when they introduced the iPhone. The iPhone was going to be your new pocket computer—easily at hand all the time. No bigger than a handful (and at the time, even a 3.5” screen was...
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iPhone 5C: A Margin Play
Now that the 5C is out, and it’s only $100 cheaper than the 5S, it’s clear that it’s a margin play by Apple. Normally, Apple sells the previous year’s model at a $100 discount, so the 5 would be $100...
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10 Clues to the Future of Universal Apps and the Apple App Store
The other day I told you about how OS X may become a legacy operating system. That won’t happen overnight; it’ll take a few years. Today I’d like to discuss what might happen in the meantime. I’ll take...
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Rumored MacBook Pro OLED touch bar to mimic iPad Pro?
Last week brought the first—and surprising—rumor from AppleInsider of an OLED touch bar above a new MacBook Pro (MBP) keyboard. At the time, I tweeted an image I mocked up of what that touch bar may...
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