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The Thing About Microsoft
Daring Fireball linked and commented on a couple Microsoft pieces recently, and while I largely agree with them I feel a bit of dog-piling going on. Awkwardly and surprisingly, I find myself wanting to defend Microsoft. This won’t go over well. It’s likely that this recent bout of comparisons was spawned by the news that Apple’s…
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Changed my mind about the CS3 icons
In response to my Dad’s curiousity about some people talking about the new CS3 icons (one didn’t like them and linked to Adam Betts’s replacements: Betts CS3) I wrote this: Good question. Icons are a passionate topic for many Mac users. Mac icons have always been better than Windows icons, with the capability of being…
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Hold your AAPL stock
Here’s the deal, though I’ve not had the personal confidence to follow it: Apple’s stock continues to be primed for future growth regardless of iPods or any new product releases. Don’t sell it yet, no matter how high it gets. No one is talking about computers anymore; with all the iPods, iTunes, iTunes Store, TV,…
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Welcome to missing the point
As we approach the Zune launch Tuesday and I see more and more of Microsoft’s marketing material, it gets more and more disturbing to me that they apparently do not see how big of a failure this will be. The Zune is inferior to the iPod in almost every way but one, so I can…
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Zunerific
I can’t decide which is better: I also think that this zune logo is almost cool, but it doesn’t make sense in three dimensional space. What are those vertical lines right down the center? Are they supposed to be diagonal cross bars on the top and bottom horizontal planes, or are they vertical supports on…