Archive | March 6th, 2009

Friday evening link roundup

6. March 2009

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Confessions of an Apple Store Employee – Macenstein Politicians aren’t feeling the BlackBerry Storm – Politico New sites sell unauthorized iPhone software – Wall Street Journal Apple so far immune to PC price collapse – Fortune New 17-inch MacBook Pros experience graphics trouble – Gizmodo Apple working on its green credentials – Ars Technica

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iTunes App Store keeps on chugging along with over 25,000 apps

6. March 2009

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The iTunes app store continues to grow at an impressive rate as the number of available applications surpassed 25,000 earlier this week.  To put that into context, in mid-January Apple announced in a series of advertisements that the app store had over 15,000 applications.  So in less than 2 months, the number of applications has […]

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The absurdity of Wall Street

6. March 2009

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Can Wall Street get any more ridiculous?  Today, JP Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz lowered his earnings estimates for Apple and also lowered his projection of iPhone and Mac shipments, citing turbulent economic conditions.  This earnings adjustment sparked a huge sell-off in Apple shares, with the stock dropping over 5% to $83.74 a share.  What makes […]

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Why iPhone users won’t flock to the Palm Pre come June

6. March 2009

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Palm investor Roger McNamee recently stated that when the phone contracts of the initial iPhone owners expire this summer, they’ll all be jumping ship for the Palm Pre – which should be shipping by then. “”You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone. […]

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Windows Mobile still in a world of trouble

6. March 2009

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Microsoft is not sittin’ pretty these days.  Its Windows Mobile platform continues to lose market share, and on top of that, it doesn’t appear that it’ll have a worthy competitor in the Mobile OS space until 2010. At Microsoft’s CIO summit this week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer fielded a question about what steps Microsoft is […]

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