Why Apple is more expensive than Amazon: “Buy what you like, where you like. But remember why things are the way they are. Apple is more expensive than Amazon because the labels want you listening to music on a Zune.”
Excellent analysis of the current state of the music industry.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) (via the Sydney Morning Herald):
However, [Torvalds] went on to say that both companies are using their operating systems to propel more software and hardware sales.”
Simply shocking. I can’t imagine what they’re thinking…
Michael Geist says Microsoft Misleads on Copyright Reform in an article in The Hill Times. Shameless.
So Microsoft’s going to buy Yahoo! Good for Yahoo!; not so good for Yahoo! users.
The cultures of these companies will not mix. It makes me thing of the joke doing the rounds of the auto industry a few years back:
Q: How do you pronounce ‘DaimlerChrysler’?
A: The ‘Chrsyler’ is silent.
Anything good that Yahoo! brings to the equation (Widgets, Flickr, search) will be obliterated almost immediately or allowed to wither slowly.
But this is really all about Google:
It is a shotgun marriage, but the person holding the shotgun is Google…
—Tim Weber, business editor, BBC News website
Microsoft is finally admitting that Live.com is no threat to Google, and it really needs to be a player in the online advertising space that Google owns.
Microsoft will spend the next three years rebuilding everything Yahoo! has from the ground-up with their own tools, just because they need to prove they eat their own dogfood; that’s a lot of money just to buy a brand.
A computer shop’s sales pitch: ‘We remove Vista’
From what I hear, Microsoft’s actually done a reasonably good job of improving security in Vista, but people really seem to hate it.
I still haven’t used Vista (XP & XP pro on the non-Macs here), and I’ve only seen it on one person’s laptop in the wild, and that person loved it (but found some of the changes to where things are stored took some getting used to, as compared to XP).
Katemonkey.co.uk: X-UA-Lemur-Compatible: “Lemur 11: It’s been a few weeks since we’ve had an Internet riot. Let’s go for it.”
The blue Zeldman toque is an instant internets classic.
(Via Digital Web.)
Steve Jobs announced at today’s world-wide developer’s conference that Mac OS X 10.5 (”Leopard”) will replace the Finder (which is?Ǭ
This might not mean as much as one expects at first glance; after all, large government and corporate users tend to be conservative in their adoption of new technologies. I’ve spoken with people who plan to upgrade their users to Vista, but not for a year or so (certainly until after the first Service Pack).
But this quote
In a memo to his staff, the DOT’s CIO Daniel Mintz says he has placed “an indefinite moratorium” on the upgrades as “there appears to be no compelling technical or business case for upgrading to these new Microsoft software products. Furthermore, there appears to be specific reasons not to upgrade.”
is pretty harsh.
From Information Week, via Slashdot.
Vista has speech recognition hole | BBC.co.uk
From the article:
Tuesday Microsoft has admitted that speech recognition features in Vista could be hijacked so that a PC tells itself to delete files or folders.
Wow.
