Shhh, don’t say the A word. It’s an Apple product and you can’t talk about it if you are a Microsoft worker.
Some Microsoft workers take pains to hide their iPhones. While rank-and-file workers tend to use the iPhone openly around peers, some conceal them within sight of more senior executives. One Microsoft worker said he knows several colleagues who try to disguise their iPhones with cases that make them look more like generic handsets.
I wonder what happens in Nokia.
Sooner that we thought? Forbes seems to think so:
Apple has increased its mobile phone market share from 0.3% in 2007 to 2% in 2009, while RIM mobile phone market share increased from 1% to about 3% during the same period. We expect Apple’s market share to overtake that of RIM by 2011, and for Apple and RIM to have 11% and 8% market share, respectively, by the end of Trefis forecast period. We believe sales of the iPhone will eventually outpace BlackBerry sale…
Apple’s iPad was launched a few days ago and the war in the e-book arena quickly escalated.
Amazon has pulled all Macmillan books from its online store. Macmillan is a big publisher and includes publishing houses Henry Holt & Co., science fiction-focused Tor/Forge and the Tiffany of fiction, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
It seems that Amazon and Macmillan were in disagreement as to the price of e-books sold for the Kindle. Amazon wants a price of $9.99 for Kindle e-books, but the publishers aren’t happy with this demand and would like, of course, to sell their e-books for higher prices.
Amazon could put a lot of pressure on publishers right up until Wednesday, the day of the iPad’s launch. Now the e-book arena has a set of different rules. Sure enough, the publishers didn’t wait. Five publishers were announced to be working with Apple; Macmillan is one of them.
Amazon still has dangerous ammunition, though: all formats of Macmillan books are now unavailable for purchase from the online giant. This can be very bad for the publisher.
It’s hard to predict who will win this battle. After all, there are quite a few online retailers that sell books. If a shopper is really eager to get a certain book, he will find it in a myriad of shops. On the other hand, Amazon has very effective marketing tactics, and buyers may simply be tempted to buy a different book or product. It seems that cooperation is in the interest of both sides and that a compromise will be reached, eventually.
In the mean time, let’s hope that good, fierce competition between different platforms will benefit us, the clients.
After much speculation, rumors and guesses, we now all know what’s Apple’s newest product – the iPad. The features and the prices are now common knowledge, but there are still many questions about the iPad: Will it be a hit like the iPod and the iPhone? Will it be a good gaming platform? What about foreign languages support? What about Flash support? etc.
If you are interested in the iPad hype, here’s a roundup of links, info, commentary and videos from around the net.
BusinessWeek reports that Apple and Google are having a serious row:
“Amid an accelerating rivalry with Google, Apple is discussing ways to make Bing the default search engine on the iPhone”.
And the reason? It seems that Apple will get more money from Microsoft than it gets from Google. Apple also wants to cut Google off from some of the search data, which as we know, is worth a lot of money, too. It’s also possible that Apple wants to develop its own search engine, and then they won’t need either company.
Read more on why Apple might dump Google
© 2012 Shark Lady Tech · Proudly powered by WordPress & Green Park 2 by Cordobo.
Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional | Valid CSS 3
