“Because they’re the super-small-market share guy, they get all these statements about them.” Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said that of Apple back in 2005. And while it’s essentially still true today, it’s less so than it has been in years past. In separate reports today, research houses Gartner and IDC both note that Apple has climbed to third place in the desktop market in the states.
Get this: A new report from the Standish Group claims that FOSS–free and open source software–is decimating the software market. To wit:
Open Source software is raising havoc throughout the software market. It is the ultimate in disruptive technology, and while to it is only 6% of estimated trillion dollars IT budgeted annually, it represents a [...]
Though Apple hasn’t yet unveiled, or perhaps even developed, its strategy for integrating the iPhone with business software systems in a way that won’t give IT executives aneurysms, its plans to bring the device to the enterprise market appear to be going quite well. This in spite of dubious security folk and leery analysts like [...]
Given the recent monomania over Apple’s iPhone, it’s sometimes easy to forget that the company also has a thriving personal-computer business that’s tearing market share from the hands of rival computer-makers.
But while Apple may have taken the “computer” out of its name, it definitely hasn’t taken the computer out of the company. According to market [...]
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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