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blog.wired.com - 10/15/2008
Analysts: New MacBook Prices Too High to Compete
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Despite a raft load of nifty new features, Apple's new Mac notebooks will have a hard time moving off store shelves during the economic crisis, industry analysts say. "There will be a lot of people looking at a lot of stuff at the Apple Store, and they'll probably come out with ...
apple.com - 10/11/2008
A Greener Apple
— apple.com — Apple has been criticized by some environmental organizations for not being a leader in removing toxic chemicals from its new products, and for not aggressively or properly recycling its old products. Upon investigating Apple’s current practices and ... (more) A Greener Apple

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Apple Quietly Kills FireWire 400
blog.wired.com - 10/15/2008
Apple Quietly Kills FireWire 400
— blog.wired.com — Just outside the MacBook factory there is a small courtyard, usually populated by workers taking a cigarette break. Last week, though, on a quiet Saturday afternoon, the exit door leading onto the yard was locked, and the only people to be seen ... (more) Apple Quietly Kills FireWire 400

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blogs.zdnet.com - 10/14/2008
Apple’s new MacBook line: Affordable enough? | Between the Lines
— blogs.zdnet.com — An updated 13-inch white MacBook is now available for $999. That puts Apple in the sub-$1,000 category by a buck. In its statement–and presentation for that matter–Apple glosses over the fact it’s playing price in the lower band of its lineup. The ... (more) Apple’s new MacBook line: Affordable enough? | ...

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L.A. Times Tech Blog:  Around the Web 10.15.08: Expensive computers and improvements in online karaoke

Daring Fireball:  ★ Listen to Tim Cook

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Around the Web 10.15.08: Expensive computers and improvements in online karaoke
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... -- Some analysts think the new Apple laptops aren’t cheap enough. Wired -- More gloom and doom: a University of San Francisco study finds venture capitalists' confidence at its lowest level since the survey began. WSJ -- Airplane! the movie, part IV? Computers are to blame for an Australian flight that climbed suddenly and then took a giant nosedive. Australian Broadcasting Corporation -- Is Fidel Castro ...

★ Listen to Tim Cook
Daring Fireball — ... licenses for Mac OS X to Dell? A lot of the current action in laptops, industry-wide, is at the low end of the market. Some of these machines look pretty interesting. None of them look like something Apple would make. But yet there was (and is) this consensus that given current industry trends, combined with the rather shaky (to say the least) state of the global economy, well of course, what Apple needed to do was cheapen its MacBook lineup. Exhibit A, exhibit B, exhibit C. What Apple announced Tuesday was exactly the opposite. ...

Lenovo Reports $16 Million Quarterly Loss
Daring Fireball — ... Revenue was down 18 percent from the year-ago quarter. Because so much of the PC industry is engaged in a race for the bottom, “market share” is no longer much of a bragging point. The computer maker that has weathered this recession the best is Apple — the company which last year many analysts predicted would weather it the worst. They predicted Apple would be in trouble because it focuses on the high end of the market, but it’s exactly that focus that has enabled them to not just tread water but continue to grow. ...

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