gizmodo.com - 10/14/2008
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In an email of talking points circulated by Microsoft spokespeople, the company addresses the various rumors about today's new MacBooks, preemptively claiming that they will be overpriced, underspec'd and locked down. They offer charts comparing the feature lists of similarly priced Windows and ...
store.apple.com - 10/14/2008
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store.apple.com —
We'll be back soon You can contact our
telesales team at the following numbers: US 1-800-MY-APPLE México
001-800-MY-APPLE Australia 133-622 Nederland 0800 0200 570 België 0800/99 846 New Zealand 0800-69-27753 Belgique 0800/93 932 Norge 800-33-034 ...
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The Apple Store
boredzo.org - 10/13/2008
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boredzo.org —
Description In 2008, Apple opened the iPhone to
application developers, making their phone/iPod/internet communicator into a platform.
However, Apple attached one giant string: Their own App Store is the only way to mass-distribute an application for ...
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iPhone Application Graveyard
apple.com - 10/11/2008
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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 ...
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A Greener Apple
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Microsoft already on defense, cites "Apple Tax" in new emails
AppleInsider —
... Published: 11:20 AM EST There's still a few hours to go before Apple takes the wraps off its new notebook line, but that hasn't stopped its rival to the north from scrambling into a defensive stance, firing off emails to its employs that bill the new systems as overpriced, underspec'd and locked down. Gizmodo , which published excerpts from the Microsoft email, says the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant included charts comparing the feature sets of similarly priced Windows and Mac notebooks, and made repeated (eight) accusations of an "Apple Tax." "The email is ...
Microsoft Memo: DO NOT PAY ATTENTION TO APPLE
Silicon Alley Insider —
... It's possible that Gizmodo got hoaxed here, and that they really don't have possession of a ham-handed spin memo from Microsoft. But if they're right, this is way more embarassing than those ...
Singin' the Blu-ray Blues
E-Commerce Times —
... corporate vice president, Windows Rackspace is the expert when it comes to delivering Windows and Linux hosting solutions. Click here to learn more. Consumer Product Marketing, made at least one good point in his " Apple tax " extravaganza: PC buyers who want to engage in certain technologies, like Blu-ray, HDMI, eSATA external drives -- especially on their notebook computers -- face Apple as a gatekeeper. Down-With-Discs Mentality There are several explanations for this continued approach by Apple: Hollywood is still playing games with Apple, withholding some rights, ...
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daringfireball.net 10/16/2008 — One thing Apple knows is what it does. Apple designs and produces very nice things. All this hubbub over low-cost laptops is outside the realm of what makes Apple Apple .
There has long been, especially in the business press, a strong bias towards ...
Apple Ads About Microsoft Ads About Apple Ads About Microsoft
technologizer.com 10/20/2008 — Apple released a couple of new “Get a Mac” ads today, and while I wouldn’t usually bother to mention that here, these ones are noteworthy: They make direct reference to Microsoft’s current $300 million ad campaign for Windows. ...
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apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com 10/13/2008 —
Steve Jobs likes to talk about Apple’s business model as a stool that rests on three legs: the Mac, the iPod and the iPhone. But the iPhone leg is still pretty short, thanks in part to deferred revenues. And while the iPod’s sales ...
Graphic: How Apple is gaining on Microsoft
apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com 10/27/2008 — Here’s a chart that should keep Steve Ballmer up at night.
It compares Microsoft’s ( MSFT ) market share, revenue, net profit and growth rate to Apple’s ( AAPL ), using the numbers from each company’s most recent quarterly ...
Apple ads blunt Microsoft's 'I'm a PC' campaign
computerworld.com 10/30/2008 — Apple's anti-Vista response to its rival's "I'm a PC" marketing campaign blunted Microsoft's efforts, according to Visible Measures, an Internet video metrics firm.
Apple shares go their own way
apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com 10/10/2008 — Something interesting happened to Apple’s share price at about 3:45 p.m. Thursday, just as the bottom was falling out of the rest of the market — leaving the Dow down 679 points (7.3%) for the day.
That’s when Apple ( AAPL ) ...
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daringfireball.net 10/22/2008 — For a long time — the entire decade of the ’90s and the first few years of this decade — the story of Apple was the story of a company searching for a way to be something other than “the Mac company”. From a financial ...
Latest Apple MacBook Pro Rumors before Apple Event —
I4U News 10/14/2008
In just a couple hours Apple will unveil their new MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks. New leaked photos of the alleged MacBook Pro show a modular design that will enable you to remove the battery and hard-drive.
See more new photos leaked from ...
Apple Store is down in Anticipation of new MacBooks —
I4U News 10/14/2008
Here we go again. The Apple Store just went down. Same procedure as every last time. In a couple of hours Apple will introduce new notebook computers.
The rumors have run wild for months now. Today we will see which MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook ...
New Apple Next-generation MacBook unveiled —
I4U News 10/14/2008
Apple announced today two Next-generation MacBooks and Apple reduces the entry price of the currently available MacBooks to $999.
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