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forbes.com - 11/3/2008

Crashing The iPhone

— forbes.com — An Italian programmer discovers a bug that can crash Apple's mobile devices and maybe some computers.... (more) Crashing The iPhone

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alleyinsider.com - 11/3/2008

Apple Slashes iPhone Production, Says Chip Analyst (AAPL)

— alleyinsider.com — Is demand slowing for Apple's (AAPL) red-hot iPhone 3G? Apple has cut its Q4 iPhone production plans... significantly more than originally estimated, according to Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst Craig Berger. Instead of a 10% sequential production ... (more) Apple Slashes iPhone Production, Says Chip Analyst (AAPL)

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alleyinsider.com - 11/3/2008

Will Apple Sell A $99 iPhone Next Year? Yes (AAPL)

— alleyinsider.com — Apple's (AAPL) Sept. quarter iPhone sales -- 6.9 million -- were very impressive. But if Steve Jobs... wants to catch the likes of no. 2 Samsung -- 51.8 million phones last quarter -- he's going to have to start selling iPhones for less than $199.  ... (more) Will Apple Sell A $99 iPhone Next Year? Yes (AAPL)

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Back in the Day: When Apple didn't totally rock
MacUser — Earlier this week, at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston, Allan Yogasingam disassembled two of Apple's biggest hardware flops in the company's history: the lesser-known gaming system, Pippin, and the oft-ridiculed PDA, the Newton. As Forbes.com reported: In the case of the Pippin, Apple's attempt with the toymaker Bandai to create a hybrid PC game console for the Japanese market in 1995, Yogasingam's dissection revealed a strange mongrel's anatomy: the processor of a gaming machine, mixed with the networking capability, structure ...

Forbes’ 10 Apple Flops
Cult of Mac — ... in the world Apple sits for 2008 at #1, Forbes magazine featured its list of the 10 biggest Apple failures this week, a gallery of which we reproduce for you below. ...

Forbes catalogs Apple's flops
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... at IDC a year before the Cube's launch, researchers gave users blocks of foam in various shapes and surveyed them on which blocks they preferred and why. Kay found that users opted for "dramatic" shapes--those that had at least one dimension very different from the others. The Macbook Air, for instance, with one extremely thin dimension, would have scored highly. But by the same measure, the G4 Cube "was exactly the wrong product," Kay says. Apple Product Flops [Forbes]

‘Macsimum Recommended Reading’ for Oct. 31
Macsimum News — ... “When Apple Failed: Long ago, before the iPhone, before the iPod, before even the second coming of Steve Jobs, Apple was not the infallible juggernaut of innovation it’s known as today. The fanboys may not believe that there was a time when Apple could fail. But Allan Yogasingam has proof.”—Forbes ...

Apple TV Notes
The Tao of Mac — Early last week I brought an Apple TV home on loan, paired it to the house server (a mini) and have been fooling around with the setup a bit in order to figure out if it was good enough already. To cut a long story short, I’ve been comparing it against my current media center, the PS3 (to which I will refer to here solely as a media center), and it turns out that it is a slightly more balanced match than I originally gave it credit for, mostly due to two things: The vastly simpler UI – that makes it a lot easier to find and view the media you want “Proper” syncing. I have been using MediaLink to ...