As some of you may recall I have been having problems with my MacBook Pro, to the point where I was just about ready to give up on it. It has been crashing more and more often recently and this is not something you want in a work machine. I had installed a new SSD but the machine refused to boot after awhile so I stuck the old hard drive back in. There were still random crashes but at least it worked, most of the time. Sometimes programs would not work as they were supposed to. Sometimes the whole machine would simply freeze and all I could do was lean on the power button until it reset. I was, to say the least, unhappy. One reason I have always liked Apple machines is, to quote the slogan, they just work. Apparently not this MacBook, not … [Read more...]
iCloud: The Hype Begins
There's another interesting Apple puff-piece over at the Guardian. It sings the praises of Apple's new iCloud as opposed to Google's Web based approach to the cloud. The main difference is apparently that you can just fire up your MacBook and save your documents in the cloud and they will miraculously appear on all your other Apple computers from the cloud. You get to use local apps and not be tied to the browser as with Google's offerings. Sounds pretty cool, huh? Another radical new innovation from Steve and the boys in Cupertino! Well, no actually. I've been doing this for a couple of years on a mix of Apple, Windows and Linux machines using Dropbox (and sometimes LiveMesh) as have millions of people like me. I am sure that the Apple … [Read more...]
Apple Sales Growth and Guardian Spin
Over at the Guardian tech blog Charles Arthur points out that over the past five years Apple has enjoyed growth of up to 27% while Windows PC manufacturers have seen sales slump. Sounds impressive, doesn't it? Surely it's worthy of serious investigation! There must be something that Windows PC manufacturers could learn here. And yet the same article points out that Apple's overall market share has grown from something like 3.35% worldwide to a mighty 4%. That sounds a lot less impressive, doesn't it? Apple are a great brand and they make very nice machines but 4% market share is not striking any sort of blow against the Windows behemoth. Using those 27% growth statistics to flog the Windows beast relies on a simple jedi math trick. Here it … [Read more...]
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