Technology executives say the darndest things
This week’s Macworld column looks at the stuff that comes out of tech execs mouths and wonders… whaaa?
Handle with care
The feelings of Adobe executives are as tender as dragonfly wings, Apple’s market share may also be delicate, as may be the iPhone 4. All in this week’s Macworld column.
Vanilla Sky
This week’s Macworld column looks at the iPad’s effect on netbooks, how open Android is and iPad competition.
Gates!
The Macalope takes a look at all the various Apple -gates in this week’s Macworld column.
Scandal-making for dummies
iPad competition sucks, looks like we might get a Verizon iPhone in the new year and “Glassgate”? C’mon. All in this week’s Macworld column.
Bad movies
Three surveys this week drive the Macalope to drink and think of bad movies. All in this week’s Macworld column.
Bad behavior
This week’s Macworld column hits Michael Arrington, a college journalism student and corporate IT shops. That’s a nice rounded list.
The iPhone's a good cop!
This week’s Macworld column looks at the mobile wars, Consumer Reports refusal to accept that the iPhone’s not evil and talks to the Winotaur about Microsoft’s boss new slate coming in 3 years!
Choices
This week’s Macworld column looks at the choices we make, from Android phones with Bing to Apple’s App Store rules to a kookie Acer founder who goes nuts with a metaphor.
Nano mano y mano
Jim Dalrymple likes the iPod nano and does the best (and maybe only) sales job for the device the Macalope’s seen from someone who doesn’t work for Apple.
The brown and furry one hasn’t laid a hoof on the new nano yet, but he’s only slightly more amenable to the device he called a “red-headed stepchild” in his column last week after reading Dalrymple’s paean.
The place where Dalyrmple and the equally hirsute one agree the most is probably what category it fills. The Macalope said it’s “less of a multitouch nano than it is a multitouch shuffle” and Dalrymple’s piece seems to back that up.
The difference is, Dalrymple thinks that’s a good thing while the Macalope thinks multitouch alone doesn’t warrant the $100 price difference. The 8 GB iPod touch is just $80 more than the 8 GB nano. Now think about the difference in utility between the nano and the touch that you get for $80 versus the difference in utility between the shuffle and nano that you get for $100.
Personally he thinks the old nano provided more utility, but reasonable people can disagree.