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Tim Bray Joins Google Android Team, Lashes Out at Apple

This is good stuff when you consider that the author, Tim Bray, is the co-creator of XML and is thus very well-respected in the industry. His comments here about Apple are exactly right. As of this morning I work for Google. The title is “Developer Advocate”. The focus is Android. Fun is expected. Compete...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 03-15-2010
Steve Jobs and Control

When Steve Jobs was demonstrating the iPad last week and the screen suddenly showed one of those broken icons on the New York Times web page, indicating that a Flash animation was unavailable, I realized that the guy wasn't making a rare gaff--i.e. mistakenly showing a poorly-rendered web page--but...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 02-01-2010
iPad: The Morning After

I have to believe that even the most diehard Apple fanatics are feeling a bit disappointed this morning. Indeed, Apple's biggest blunder with the iPad, perhaps, is that the device wasn't available for sale immediately. They could have sold millions on the first day. But now, with customers forced...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 01-28-2010
Exclusive! Microsoft To Announce Tablet PC Before Apple!

The tech industry is tripping over itself to promote Apple's maybe-it-is-maybe-it-isn't Tablet computing device, but Microsoft has their number: I can now reveal that Microsoft and its PC maker partners will announce and then deliver their own Tablet PC well before Apple. And I have an exclusive...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 01-06-2010
The 'blame anyone but Apple cadre,' Part 217: AT&T

So AT&T is finally adding MMS support to the iPhone 3G/3GS on September 25, about two months after Apple first announced the feature and other international wireless carriers provided it. Yep, AT&T sucks. And I should know, I've been using this horrible network, first in "EDGE"...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-04-2009
Apple: MobileMe actually works on Windows now. No, really

One of my big complaints about the iPhone and then MobileMe was that Windows/Outlook syncing was horrifically bad and it was painfully clear that the Walt Mossberg/David Pogues of the world had never even tested these products together, not even once. Apparently, neither had Apple. Yesterday, almost...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 02-11-2009
About today’s Macbook announcements

Apple released evolutionary updates to their MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro notebook computers today. My take? Whoop-de-freaking-do.

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-14-2008
You know MobileMe is a piece of junk when ... (Updated)

This one reads like a Jeff Foxworthy (of "you know you're a redneck when..." fame) joke. As in, you know MobileMe is a piece of @#$% when even Walter Mossberg, the world's most prominent support of Apple products, can't find anything good to say about it . I look back, smiling,...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-24-2008
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
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

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