On Wednesday, Apple dropped the price of the iPhone from $599 to $399. Predictably, many people went wild, complaining that they got ripped off by this 33% price cut after just 10 weeks of sales, while others defended the move, comparing it to price cuts by Sony (PS3), Microsoft (XBox), and even Apple itself (Mac […]
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Apple Rocks the Flash
Apple just announced a total refresh of their iPod line, bumping up storage capacity across the board. The little Shuffle is the only one without more storage (still at 1 GB), but the Nano now has a nice screen (with movies) and 4 or 8 GB of flash storage. The disk-based iPod (now the “Classic”) […]
DRM Lock-In Becomes Lock-Out
Next time someone trots out the old argument that “only pirates hate digital rights management (DRM),” just point out what just happened at the old Googleplex. They just canceled their pay-per-download Google Video site and locked everyone out of the content that they legally paid for. We all knew this could happen with DRM, and […]
iPhone Ahoy!
Shannon (my wife) got me an iPhone for an anniversary gift. Pretty cool eh? I’m typing this on it now. So far my experience has not been good. It locks up constantly, forcing me to restore it repeatedly. Not sure if I got a bum unit or if its a software issue or what. I’m […]
Wherefore Art Thou, Solid State Disks?
Sure, hybrid drives are going nowhere fast in enterprise storage. But what about solid state disk technology? It’s been “almost there” for decades – anyone remember EMC’s solid-state Orion Atom (or was it Adam) array? Now a handful of storage players are talking about SSD’s again, including some respectable names like LSI and Xiotech and […]
