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Gary Krakow is off his rocker, blames MSFT for iPhone battery woes

Nice to see someone else going after the mainstream media for unfairly blaming Microsoft for something, in this case—get this—the iPhone 3G's poor battery life. Head's up, guys. Push kills battery life, no matter where the service comes from. Gary Krakow has gone insane . I was going to...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-15-2008
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 of @#$%. Why would MobileMe be much better?) What...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-14-2008
MobileMe launch delayed ... Where's the outrage?

Apple shut down its .Mac service yesterday to launch MobileMe and then ... ran into problems. As of today, MobileMe is still not available, and of course .Mac is down as well . So I have to wonder. Where's Ina Fried's scathing blog attack on Apple about this? After all, she went after Microsoft...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-10-2008
More reasons to switch to Firefox?

I think Michael Horowitz is being a bit harsh (and I'm guessing that's his entire schtick in a nutshell), but Mozilla's Asa Dotzler summarizes this argument a bit more agreeably, in my opinion. First, the Horowitz bit : If you surf the web on a Windows computer, you are safer using Firefox...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-07-2008
Randall Stross jumps the shark

So before I rip into this one --and honestly, how could I do otherwise, given how wrongheaded this is?--I would like at least take a moment to note that I generally enjoy Randall Stross. This one, however, took me by surprise and I had to resist the urge to toss aside the Kindle (from which I read it...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-29-2008
Verizon CEO comments on iPhone, Jobs

Predictably (and, in this case, deservedly), some inflammatory comments made by Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg to the Financial Times have gotten a lot of iCabal press in the past few days: Verizon is the second-largest US telecoms company, and the fifth-largest in the world. He reserves his most acerbic...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-28-2008
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 to turn itself into an entertainment hub, is...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-25-2008
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 million songs. Also, iTunes customers are now...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-19-2008
Making Microsoft cool ... Is it even possible?

A fascinating article proving that Microsoft is indeed listening to criticisms about its image: Now Crispin has been handed perhaps its biggest challenge to date: Microsoft. The tech giant stunned the ad world in March when it passed over safer choices like Fallon, JWT, and its agency of record, McCann...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-17-2008
I bought a new MacBook ... to run Windows. Why?

Through a long and circuitous route, I ended up at the Apple Store in Braintree, Massachusetts yesterday, and bought a MacBook . The where, what, and why of this transaction may be of interest. (Or it may not. I will at least point out that among my blogging pet peeves are the incessant morons out there...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-16-2008

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