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Thank goodness we all have 600 bucks lying around to spend on a pile of soon-to-be-dumped HP products within 24 hours of receiving a super deal like this one. Thanks a bunch, guys!
DC’s hometown boys make good.
Who carves an Apple symbol into their head when most kids would probably prefer a mohawk?
This kid. I love this story.
It surprises me that no one has talked at all about Tim Cook joining Apple’s board at the same time he’s stepping into the CEO role. This has been speculated since Eric Schmidt vacated his seat in August 2009 (see http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125019983643730309.html). One can only infer that this succession plan has been in place for at least two years despite public pressure for the company to reveal a plan.
Steve J doesn’t do anything without a ton of detail, and you’ve got to believe his press release jab was more than just a passing reference to succession plan demanders.
The big question in the interim is ‘how’s his health?’ and I’m not sure we’ll have the answer anytime before we hear any really bad news. He will continue to drive product in his new role as chairman and employee – ain’t collecting COBRA alone. What he has done is provided Cook with a fantastic opportunity to employ brilliant supply chain dynamics that assure Apple’s competitive product advantages give them far more runway and net profit than any similar company in history, and that alone will buy a ton of time even if they lose some of that creative force. I’d contend much of their unique product DNA will remain intact and what will remain unanswered is how they identify and implement features from here forward. Theory is there’s at least one more product in the kitty – perhaps 2 or 3 – that are ready to go and waiting for the market to systemically green light them. When you consider the iPad was around 4-5 years before any touch device was released that wouldn’t be surprising. There’s touch-hybrid line of computers, some kind of TV-style media device, and loads of cloud products that are at least 80% assured of showing up in the next couple years alone, and their transition to Apple-developed CPUs will at minimum lock their trajectory for several years while they continue to lock-in their adjusted executive chemistry.
Is iPad an e-book category killer or are the commodity players just killing each other in a fight to be the cheapest number two player?
More on this story at Business Insider.
Now that we’ve been treated to an incredible new Mac mini release, I can’t get this old AppleInsider post out of my head.
Here’s the final sentence: “Ladies and gentlemen, AppleInsider believes in all sincerity that the Mac mini is dead.”
I completely lost trust for AppleInsider as an Apple news and information source when I read this. ”Believes in all sincerity”? Interesting language when you’re holding yourself up as a vital source of information.
Perhaps I wouldn’t have lost trust – now I just laugh about it, in case you’re wondering if it had some big long term impact – had they not reported around the same time that the hard drive based iPod would be forever discontinued (last I checked, it’s still around).
The lesson: don’t write crap that lacks truth and/or substance. That’s called propaganda.
We were blown away to find that Forrest Gump is alive and well. After having moved to Dallas (apparently either due to Katrina of the oil spill) he’s once again chasing down new and remarkable feats. Yesterday, one whole week before iPhone 4′s release, he hunkered down in his pursuit of become the first iPhone camper worldwide, setting the record for earliest electronics device campout once owned by a highly animated coffee cup which stood in line for 3 days outside the very first Apple Store built – located at Tyson’s Corner, Virginia – only three years ago.
Congratulations, Forrest. You’ve come a long way from the world ping pong championships. We’re hoping you have an empty coffee cup of your own handy, by the way.
We’re posting this as a warning to anyone expecting to just drop in to an Apple Store and grab a new iPhone. If you haven’t already figured it out, iPhone 4 is going to be the biggest selling phone in history and even Apple didn’t anticipate the months and months of catch-up they’ll be doing to meet demand.
Don’t say you weren’t armed with the info!
“Prospective buyers in both the US and the UK — at minimum — found themselves unable to order the next must-have Jobsian device due to server overload, either in Cupertino, at the carrier level, or both.”
I don’t know anyone who got through, unless they used the brand new Apple Store app made available yesterday. Makes you wonder if that record 600,000 orders could have been 6 million instead.
More from The Register.
