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iPhone Lockup and Apple's True Colors

Wait and see is the key here. If you were creating a new phone like this would you maybe be a TOUCH conservative? I wouldn't want to see viruses. Or apps that kill the system. Or flood the network.

You can still build great apps for certain domains (e.g. facebook's iphone application is outstanding) and I am sure that Flash and a real SDK will be coming.

I am more excited about using Dashboard widgets as a platform too.

iPhone Revenue Hit Worsens: Apple Gives Prior Purchasers $100 Credit

I think it is genius. Now people are honored to get the rebate, and will probably go to the store and take that $100 and buy $400s worth of stuff (e.g. an iPhone for the wife, an Apple TV, ....).

Why I'm Disappointed By The iPhone

I love "open". That being said, I have wanted this phone for the last few years.

It isn't perfect. I want all 3G's. We aren't sure about tech details (Java installed? ease of working with new apps?).

What I care about most is that it is a fantastic device that gives me what I want out of a next gen phone. I have disliked 'smart phones' forever, and this has the chance of being the first to make sense.

'Death By PowerPoint' No More: Apple's Keynote Leaves Its Microsoft Counterpart Trailing Behind

I was sitting on a plane and the person next to me was running a Mac. She had booted into Windows via Bootcamp and was working on a doc in Powerpoint. I alerted her to the fact that Powerpoint was on the Mac, but better than that, Keynote is FAR superior. After showing her a few features she was ready to give it a try.

And then for the hardcore you had S5

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Seeing Opportunity in Intel and Apple, Thanks To Boot Camp

Bootcamp is "nice" but it isn't what I want. I don't want to have to reboot into XP. The thought of my lovely MacBook Pro running XP bores me. Blue screens on my Mac? Noooo :)

What does interest me is the ability to run these in parallel. I want to open up a Windows application while in OS X. A bunch of companies are working on this virtualization, and that is truly game changing.

"I would love to buy a Mac but I need to run APPLICATION_X for work" goes away. Bootcamp does this now, but not in a clean way.

RealNetwork's Rhapsody Gets Mac-Enabled -- Positive Buzz Ensues (RNWK, AAPL)

I always think it is important to get Mac support. Although people claim a low % of Mac sales, this is skewed due to the large number of business and utility computers that are Windows (e.g. point of sale units).

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