The Value Of Open Platforms (aka Why I Don’t Own An iPhone)
I have recently been in the market for a new smartphone. The iPhone looks like some nice hardware and I’m already an AT&T customer, but after seeing news like this I’m just not buying. Apple has proven to me that I don’t want to live in a closed ecosystem. Sometimes is really is true that “you don’t know what you got ‘till it’s gone.”
BTW, I really didn’t want to post anything pro-Microsoft or anti-Apple today, but this was the news I was dealt. :) Read more
Is Apple 1.0 Some Form Of Beta Testing You Pay For?
If the on-going debacle that is MobileMe is to highlight anything it is this: don’t do Apple 1.0. They may have some great ideas but their history with introducing new products is terrible. Even I was shocked when I started making this list of their recent 1.0 snafus. Read more
Microsoft: Open Update For All
I recently had an issue updating Google Gears to be compatible with Firefox 3.0.1. The Firefox updater didn’t find any updates and if I installed Gears again it was still at the same incompatible version. It was only after I uninstalled it and installed it again that it finally worked. This made me realize something, updating software on your computer should be a lot easier than it is right now and Microsoft should be the one to do it.
10 Reasons Why Nintendo Is The New Apple
After watching Nintendo’s success as of late I came to a realization; Nintendo is becoming the new Apple. Ten reasons why I think so after the jump.
Soapbox: WoW Stats, Netflix and Media Center, and Apple
Soapbox is a regular feature where I sound off on various tech topics/products that I’m interested in (or hate). This is just my $.02, so consider yourself warned. This week’s subjects are World of Warcraft, Netflix and Microsoft, and Apple’s marketing are all on the hot seat. Read more
More News Out Showcasing Mac Security Issues
We took a lot of flack over a post back in January that questioned the security of Apple’s Mac OS X. TechConsumers left various comments ranging from “For some reason unknown to me, no one can ever show me a situation where a user opens a e-mail and their Mac turns into a robot sending out hundreds of e-mails” to “Mac OS X *is* inherently safer. You have to be a major league Windows zombie not to know and accept that.”
Well, CanSecWest’s PWN 2 OWN contest has just shown that Mac OS X isn’t “inherently safer” and that clearly it is possible for a user to open an e-mail on a Mac and have it join a spam botnet.
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