Whoops , sorry , the Macalope signify “ Apple tablet - free ” , because this week ’s edition is just that !
Got Apple tablet fatigue ? This is the article for you ! We ’ll check in on how badly the Nexus One is crushing the iPhone and look at some Mac sales estimates . Then it ’s time once again to ask “ Is Apple the young Microsoft ? ! ” One out of one slaphappy savant allege “ yes ” !
( Macworld , permit ’s discuss the ruttish one ’s cut of the search locomotive payoff on “ free Apple tab ” at your leisure . Kisses ! )
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Well , we ’re a workweek into the iPhone being totally killed 100 - percent dead for sure by the Google Nexus One . How ’s it going so far ?
• Study : Google Nexus One ’s first week of sales were faint
Oh . Well , it ’s just after the holiday , so maybe multitude are n’t quick to spend again yet . But it ’s probably receive rave review for its substance abuser experience , yes ?
•Google Nexus One leave Customers Sour
link One has been plagued by consumer complaints let in spotty 3 G connectivity , a high other ending fee , poor customer support from Google and problems with the touchscreen .
OK , to be fair , it ’s not like the iPhone launch was flawless , either . Although Apple sure cope to move a few more unit of measurement .
Most troubling for Google , however , is its attitude toward customer support . The companionship only provides financial backing via e - mail . But at least where you ’re supposed to go for help is completely all the way - cut and not at all perplexing !
A T - Mobile spokeswoman said that T - Mobile is provide support for phone service , admit charge , while Google abide gadget sales and software , and HTC supports the hardware , including gadget troubleshooting , warranty , repairs and returns .
Uh … wait . So , if you get dropped from the 3 G mesh , is that speech sound help , software , or gimmick troubleshooting ?
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Why is the Macalope talking to an e - mail ?
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You’re looking at the wrong number
Both Gartner and IDC exhaust sale estimation for the just - completed fourth one-fourth this calendar week . While the market - research firms both reported that Apple increased its sale by a level-headed margin over last yr ’s pattern to match the overall maturation of the marketplace , they also have Apple fail to keep up with some contender and dislocate to the number five spot in the PC marketplace . The firms bespeak to the elephantine mass of cheap notebooks and netbooks HP , Toshiba and others knock down onto the …
OK , seem , the Macalope is attempt to avoid an unfortunate biologic metaphor here . consider him when he says that if he were to make it , there would be no winners , only losers , so please endeavor to use your imagination . Or not .
Before the usual jerkweeds break up out the histrionics about how netbooks are killing Apple , let ’s remember a niggling matter calledmargin . Apple ’s allowance are more than three times those of HP and 75 percentage higher than those of Toshiba . Not only that , it does n’t compete in the low - monetary value sports stadium . HP and Toshiba may be sell more machines , but on each sale they take a smaller percentage of a pocket-sized price . Each extra Apple sale is worth far more .
If you ’re an investor , which society do you want to indue in ? Apple or the information processing system - industry equivalent ofFirst CityWide Change Bank ?
The Macalope’s Law
Computerworld’sSharon Machlis asks the musical questionis Apple the Modern Microsoft ?
You know , every sentence this part gets written as if it ’s some trade name - spankin ’ new piece of blaze that just occurred to the writer , the Macalope wonders why they have not get a line of the thing the kids call“the Google . ”There should be a practice of law — the Macalope ’s Law?—that read the second you say Apple is Microsoft , you drop off the argument .
Sharon ’s particular Riffian on this now - trite saw involves iTunes not supporting her Palm Pre and how there are draw of iPhone apps . You know who else had mountain of apps?Hitler!Microsoft !
There ’s nothing wrong with popularity …
Except that it wee youHitlerMicrosoft .
Apple is distinctly the market place loss leader in the electronic music world . And its decision to block the Palm Pre from syncing with iTunes is tell .
Telling Sharon that Apple isHitlerMicrosoft !
Apple ’s still in a strong place , though — strong enough , it turns out , to endeavor to suppress a small hombre just as ruthlessly as any other companionship search to ward off competition .
C’m on , Sharon . Palm is the “ a little guy ? ” Palm ruled the PDA mart in the late ’ 90 . Did its software program include syncing functionality for the Newton ? No , it did not . So why is Apple , out of the kindness of its heart , guess to throw Palm a biography preserver ?
What ’s peculiarly galling is that I ’m sample to synchronize up euphony from my own home collection . … However , if I buy a CD , in the sometime day it was gentle for me to take heed to it while I was out for a walk ( recollect portable CD role player anyone ? ) …
Yes ! They reek !
… or in my car . Why should n’t I be able-bodied to do the same with a version on my own hard drives ?
you’re able to . Just move the files . All you ’re really complaining about is losing the play list . Even in the kingdom of first - world job , that rates middling low .
But , then , you know who else attempt to trivialize first - world problems .
Disclosure : the Macalope holds an insignificant number of Apple parcel .
