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• MobileMe: Push vs. Sync

  I've gotten a ton of email about Apple substantially backing down from its initial claims about MobileMe's capabilities. (And not to be a jerk about it, I warned you: Unlike many people, I've used .Mac for years, and it was always a piece... Posted Jul 14 2008, 11:06 AM by pthurrott with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, XP, iPod, Mobile, Cloud computing, Vista

• Starbucks Dumping CDs, iTunes Gift Cards

  I've discussed the horror show that is Starbucks before, and it seems like the company is continuing its slow retreat back to a pure-play café experience. I think I'm OK with that: Starbucks, which has been scaling back its once-grand ambitions... Posted Jun 25 2008, 02:41 PM by pthurrott with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iPod, Digital media, Mobile

• Apple sells over 5 billion songs via iTunes Store

  From Apple PR : Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes Store ( www.itunes.com ). iTunes is the number one music retailer in the US and features the largest music catalog with over eight... Posted Jun 19 2008, 05:46 PM by pthurrott with | with 28 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iTunes, iPod, Digital media, Content, Apple TV

• Apple MobileMe ... PC vs. Mac

  Apple’s MobileMe isn’t just a warmed over PC- and iPhone-compatible version of .Mac. It’s important for two reasons: Apple is jumping headfirst into the cloud computing market. (And confounding pundits who predicted they’d partner with Google.) Apple... Posted Jun 09 2008, 10:44 PM by pthurrott with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, XP, iPod, Internet, Mobile, Cloud computing, Vista

• How Apple Is Preparing for an iPod Slump

  Saul Hansell at The New York Times is turning into one of my must-read bloggers. Which is to say, he might very well be the first of my must-read bloggers as I don't actually have any yet. That said, this post is open to an interesting debate: Apple... Posted Apr 25 2008, 10:19 AM by pthurrott with | with 69 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Mac, iTunes, iPod, Vista, Commentary

• Apple is STILL lying about closed captioning in Ratatouille

  Last month, I pointed out Apple's surreal use of the movie "Ratatouille" as an example of Closed Captioning support in iTunes during the teve Jobs keynote. It's surreal because Ratatouille, wasn't--and still isn't--available... Posted Feb 13 2008, 08:06 PM by pthurrott with | with 53 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iTunes, iPod, Digital media, Content, Apple TV

• Macworld 2008 keynote: Initial thoughts

  Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Note that these are initial thoughts only. I'm guessing there will be a lot more to say about this later. Leopard update Apple sold 5 million copies of Leopard in 2007, "the... Posted Jan 15 2008, 12:41 PM by pthurrott with | with 19 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iPod, Digital media, Cloud computing, Content, Apple TV

• Apple to (finally) start movie rentals

  Often seen as an innovator, Apple is behind the PC industry on digital movie rentals by, oh, 8 years or so. But something tells me they'll do a good job, though more recent services like Amazon Unbox and, of course, the On Demand functionality on... Posted Dec 27 2007, 06:43 AM by pthurrott with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, iTunes, iPod

• It's Time to Acknowledge Apple as a Force in the PC Industry

  Back when Windows 95 was still known by its codename Chicago and Apple Computer was busy cranking out horrible Performa computers and obliterating any technical lead it had over Microsoft, I started a little email newsletter called WinInfo. The newsletter... Posted Oct 23 2007, 07:43 AM by pthurrott with | with 442 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Mac, iPod

• Apple Expects 'Leopard' to Accelerate Sales Gains

  Some interesting data from the Wall Street Journal regarding Apple's upcoming release of Mac OS X Leopard (see my WinInfo article about this news): Leopard will arrive in stores as Mac sales are growing at more than twice the pace of the PC market... Posted Oct 17 2007, 11:44 AM by pthurrott with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Mac, iPod

• Apple lowers price of DRM-free songs

  Associated Press : Apple Inc. is lowering the prices of songs it sells online without copy-protection to 99 cents from $1.29, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday. The reduction, which started appearing on songs Tuesday, puts Apple closer in line with rival... Posted Oct 16 2007, 04:12 PM by pthurrott with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iTunes, iPod

• Why the iPod can be conquered

  Richard Siklos at Fortune Magazine tackles an increasingly common point of view : That Apple's dominance of the digital media market could be quite temporary, thanks to the company's arrogance, poor relations with partners, and utter disregard... Posted Oct 08 2007, 09:14 AM by pthurrott with | with 333 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Zune, iPod

• Some thoughts on Zune 2.0

  So I wrote up a pretty thorough update on the new Zune devices last night but I'd like to chime in with some off-the-cuff thoughts this morning that are based solely on a single Microsoft briefing and some press packet photographs. I like what they're... Posted Oct 03 2007, 08:56 AM by pthurrott with | with 41 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Zune, iTunes, iPod, Digital media, Media Center

• Starbucks to Give Away Free ITunes Songs

  Hey, it worked for Pepsi. I think. AP reports : Starbucks Corp. plans to give away 50 million free digital songs to customers in all of its domestic coffee houses to promote a new wireless iTunes music service that's about to debut in select markets... Posted Sep 24 2007, 09:34 AM by pthurrott with | with no comments Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iTunes, iPod, Alt. Windows, Digital media