Over the last six months, Apple earned $22 billion on revenues of over $98 billion, while selling 85 million iPhones and 42 million iPads globally. The profits Apple is now earning in mobile dwarf the best mobile profit performance records set by Nokia in 2008 by more than a factor of three. Why are Apple’s [...]
Tag Archives: Windows
Born Apple: Six famous Windows apps that debuted on the Mac
Posted by Gary on May 4, 2013
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Windows remains the dominant desktop operating system in terms of market share, which makes for a commonly Windows-centric worldview. It’s especially entertaining, then, to study various software applications that originated outside of the Windows biosphere (say, on the Macintosh) and then moved over to thrive in Microsoft’s domain. Until roughly 1990, Microsoft Windows lacked both [...]
Windows OEM’s ship combined total of 3 million tablets in Q1
Posted by Gary on April 25, 2013
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Windows 8 tablets off to slow start, Apple still dominant New figures compiled by Strategy Analytics shows that Windows 8 OEM’s shipped a combined total of 3 million Windows tablets in calendar Q1 for 2013. The tablet market reached an all-time high of 40.6 million branded tablet shipments for the quarter, a 117 percent increase [...]
Mac Gems: Stay keeps your windows exactly where you want them
Posted by Gary on April 24, 2013
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Those who’ve hooked up their MacBook to an external display are probably all too familiar with the dreaded dance of windows (not to be confused with George R.R. Martin’s bestselling A Dance with Dragons): You’ve got all your windows positioned exactly as you like them, then you disconnect your MacBook and blergh—windows every which way. [...]
Acer hates Windows 8, but still might be first with an 8-inch Win 8 tablet
Posted by Gary on April 23, 2013
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It’s widely thought that smaller Windows 8 tablets are on the way, and it now looks like the Acer Iconia W3 may be one of the first to go on sale. Microsoft opened the door for iPad mini competitors when it announced changes to the Windows 8 certification guidelines recently. Leaked images of the Iconia [...]
Chromebook sales are terrible, even compared to Windows RT
Posted by Gary on April 18, 2013
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It’s taking longer than Google would like for Chromebook sales to shift into second gear. How slow have sales been? After two years on the market, Chromebooks still don’t represent a big enough percentage of the computer market to warrant a spot on NetMarketShare’s global stats report. According to early data shared with ZDNet’s Ed [...]
Facebook reportedly in discussions to bring ‘Home’ to Apple’s iPhone, Microsoft Windows Phone [u]
Posted by Gary on April 16, 2013
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Coming on the heels of Facebook’s debut of the Google Android-based “Home” app launcher earlier in April, the company is now said to be in talks with Apple to possibly collaborate on such an initiative for the iPhone. Update: A source with knowledge of the situation has told The Next Web that Facebook is not [...]