776741
submission
Tibor the Hun writes:
According to Gartner and IDC, Apple now has between 7.8 and 8.5% of market share. While those numbers are not astonishing, they are not insignificant, and their growth does not seem to be slowing down.
Will the pearly gates of acceptance open up for them once they reach the magic 10%, and will that have a positive effect on desktop Linux adoption? Hard to tell, but it's good to see that normal people (not just us geeks) are choosing to go with a different OS, rather than staying with the headache inducing Windows.
170665
submission
Tibor the Hun writes:
Most Annoying:
-Payed
-Boxen
-Virii
-Jedis
-You're/your
-Look,
-MAC
-Viola!
-Cowboy Neal
145675
submission
Tibor the Hun writes:
While Microsoft is having a tough time selling VISTA on its own merits, Apple is posting record quarterly profits due in part to strong laptop and home computer sales as well as the exceptional sales of iPods.
Blowing out even the optimistic "analyst" expectations Apple profits are at an all time high. More information from the horse's mout can be found here.
While Microsoft has a strong foothold on the market due to piracy and its monopolistic practices, strong sales of Apple hardware are showing that people are starting to chose and pay for a system that does not require constant maintenance and babysitting.
108899
submission
Tibor the Hun writes:
Similar to what they did for their last CD, NIN have released a song from their upcoming CD as a multitrack GarageBand file. What's more, according to their website, they plan on releasing all of their songs from the upcoming release this way. For those amongst us looking at the world through broken windows, GarageBand is Apple's music recording and editing software.
It seems that NIN understand that involving fans into their music is actually good for their business. Hopefully we'll see more artists take this fan-friendly approach. Who knows, maybe some day Metallica will release a song of their own this way?
38394
submission
Tibor the Hun writes:
In a short ramble, John C. Dvorak gets all upset over Microsoft's review kit for Zune.
To quote the eternal troll: If anything is doomed to failure, it is the Microsoft Zune... How about referring to it as a "piece of crap?"
cNet also reports that a Best Buy store in San Francisco has already sold 10 of them!
On the day of the big release, it seems that most critics agree: even though it has more space than Nomad, as well as wireless, the Zune is still lame. How about you Taco? It is only fair that you give us your 3 sentence review:)