Business Week has published the Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEAs) winners for 2005. “In a sea of look-alike products and services, design creates the ‘Wow!’ factor,” they write. “Design is fast becoming a must-have competency for corporations.”
Let’s hope it’s true. Mac lovers already know the value of good product design; it’s the reason many [...]
Interesting, though short, interview with Steve Jobs talking about podcasting in iTunes 4.9 on the ABC News Shuffle podcast.
Read the transcript here, or go straight to the podcast.
A day after my prediction that Mactel computers would have the ability to run Windows applications without Windows (or Virtual PC), using something like Wine, MacCentral reported that CodeWeavers would support Intel-based Macs.
CodeWeavers is a corporate backer of Wine. To quote MacCentral: “By installing CrossOver Office on Intel-based Macs, many Windows-only applications, including Windows-based [...]
Is (as Chris Seibold speculates on Apple Matters) Apple Preparing for a Microsoft Free Future? It’s an interesting question, and I think the answer is yes…and no. Here’s why…
Seibold mentions a rumor that Apple went with NeXT instead of BeOS because Microsoft refused to develop a version of Office for Apple that would run [...]
I’m probably a little late in posting this, but while many people may be aware that Steve Jobs gave the Commencement address at Stanford University a few days ago, my guess is that few have actually read the transcript. I finally got around to reading it yesterday and was duly impressed. Steve’s speech struck [...]
Macworld has published a short FAQ by Jason Snell on “Apple & Intel: What you need to know.” If you’ve been hearing all the news, but are still wondering what it all means, this is a good place to find answers to some of the more pressing questions.
In the aftermath of Apple’s announcement yesterday to switch from IBM to Intel, the Net is abuzz with speculation about what it all means for Apple, developers, and users. Wired notes that most developers greeted the announcement with “measured optimism,” but over at Apple Matters, Chris Seibold does a little hand-wringing, worrying that Apple [...]
It’s official. I’ve got egg on my face: Steve Jobs announced today during his keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference that Apple will begin shipping Macs with Intel inside beginning in 2006. You can watch the keynote address here (the interesting stuff starts at about 21:55).
The market shrugged off the news, with Apple slipping [...]
It won’t be long before we know the scoop on the rampant Apple-Intel rumors that have been swirling around these past few days (at least we’ll know whether or not Steve Jobs is going to announce any plans at the World Wide Developer Conference, which begins at 10 a.m. this morning), but the [...]
As I write this, the Net is full of rabid speculation that Apple will shed heel-dragging IBM and adopt Intel processors. First, there were articles on CNET’s News.com and The Wall Street Journal. Then the blogs started commenting on the story.
Some of the most interesting observations come from The Unofficial Apple Weblog, O’Reilly [...]