Why Apple Will Turn to Holograms - Businessweek
Look around your office hallway or college campus and you’ll see people holding interactive panes of glass. Smartphones and tablets, so revolutionary a few years ago, are quickly becoming commodities. "

First use of Obi-wan in a serious article about Apple products, seriously.

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Early Apple prototypes by frog design's Hartmut Esslinger featured in upcoming book: "Most of the examples come from the 'Snow White' design language, a version of which ultimately came to market with the Apple IIc, and are similar to actual Apple products, while others are more abstract and bear no resemblance to anything that came out of Cupertino. "

Many fond memories of the stylish Apple IIc, but my teeth were cut on the ][+. Two plus forever!

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Old People // ben's blog: "Your startup is going well and as your business expands, you hear the dreaded words from someone on your board: ‘You need to hire some senior people. Some real ‘been there, done that’ executives to help you get the company to the next level.’ "

As I recall, this strategy didn't really help Apple (ie. John Sculley).

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Google's Eric Schmidt says Android 'clearly' winning against Apple in phones: "With a wide range of devices at numerous price points running the Android operating system, Google's mobile platform is 'clearly' winning over Apple's iOS, Eric Schmidt believes."

I'm not sure that more users and a fragmented device base is necessarily winning. Gross margin is a form of winning.

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Working Apple I nets record-smashing $640,000 at German auction: "A working example of Apple's first computer was sold by German auction house Team Breker"

Unfortunately this news also implies I'm a classic computer.

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Microsoft balks at Apple’s 30% fee, leaving SkyDrive and apps that integrate with it in the lurch on iOS - The Next Web: "Microsoft and Apple are currently locked in something of a Cold War over the future of SkyDrive in the iOS App Store."

These are complicated times.

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Apple & Google Team Up for Kodak Patent Bid - The Mac Observer
If successful, it would likely mean Apple and Androids OEMs alike would be free from patent infringement charges related to these patents."

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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Apple again predicted to build low-cost iPhone for emerging markets: "firm has said it continues to believe Apple will expand the iPhone lineup with a new entry-level model."

Who dat?

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Apple takes number two spot behind Samsung for all US mobile marketshare According to data from the comScore MobiLens service, Apple jumped from third place at the end July to second place three months later. "

Number two of a really big number is a really big number.

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Redesigned iMac gets unboxed, torn down just hours after launch [u]
Just hours after Apple launched sales of its newest iMac, an unboxing video and teardown photos...

I looked, so I figured you'd want to as well.

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Tony Fadell: Recently ousted Forstall 'got what he deserved'
In an interview with the BBC on Thursday, former Apple executive and "grandfather of the iPod" Tony Fadell said that outgoing iOS chief Scott Forstall "got what he deserved," underscoring rumblings of quiet discontent heard of the ousted exec's assertive character."

The sad truth is noone would be making public statements like this if Steve was still alive. It's sort of the beginning of the end. Good thing we still have The Woz keeping it real.

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Apple's rumored chip switch from Samsung to TSMC may send shockwaves through industry: "Concerns are already arising in the semiconductor industry about Apple's potential switch from Samsung to TSMC for production of iPhone and iPad processors."

There we were, making huge piles of money together. And then we had to both go and get litigious.

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Apple quietly acquiring former Nortel patents from Rockstar Consortium: "An announcement on Tuesday from a Korean property rights regulator revealed that Apple has taken control of 1,024 patents and patent applications from the Rockstar Consortium, a bidding group led by the Cupertino company that won an auction for a package of Nortel patents in 2011."

If you were the most sued company on Earth, you'd want all the patents so that everyone would stop suing you. In theory, but we both know that's unlikely.

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Samsung reportedly hits Apple with 20% price increase for iPhone, iPad chips
The person indicated that Samsung asked for a "significant price raise" for building chips such as the A6 chip found in the iPhone 5 and the A6X processor that powers the fourth-generation iPad."

We'd like to think that we can reduce the activities of an entity with one name to a single behavior. But the truth is, in a situation like this, winning (the lawsuit) might not really be winning.

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AppleInsider | News and rumors since 1997: "Apple at 10:00 am PT (1:00pm ET) today will host an event at San Jose's California Theatre to introduce a new member to its iPad family and likely show off a completely redesigned line of iMacs, among other advancements. Click here to be taken to AppleInsider's live blog of the event."

Well, it's not live anymore, but it has photos! Announced: iPad Mini (yawn), iPad 4, and new Macs.

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Newsweek to cease print edition, go digital-only with iPad & other platforms: "The rising cost of print has forced Newsweek to go digital-only starting in 2013, leaving its iPad app as one of the few ways to read the nearly 80-year-old publication."

Another case of bits trumping the value of atoms. http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/ch01c01.htm

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Google's Eric Schmidt Interviewed by Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher - Peter Kafka - News - AllThingsD
Facebook is attempting to become the world’s communication hub. Off to a good start. Amazon wants to be the world’s store. All of these guys compete, but they also link up in different ways."

Google vs Amazon vs facebook vs Apple. Did I get the capitalization right?

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Report reaffirms 13" Retina MacBook Pro still on track for 2012 launch: "Research firm NPD DisplaySearch says Apple is likely to release a Retina display-packing 13-inch MacBook Pro before the year is out, with production currently on schedule for sometime in the fourth quarter. "

I think it goes without saying that independent software vendors can't just pony up $3000 to support a tiny subset of the Mac user base.

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ABC News uses iCloud to track a stolen iPad to TSA officer's home: "An investigation into frequent thefts at American airport security screening checkpoints resulted in a stolen iPad being tracked to a TSA officer's home, using Apple's 'Find My Phone' iCloud service."

Apple iBad.

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iPhone owners fuel 265% increase in eBay trade-in offers following iPhone 5 debut
Current owners of Apple's iPhone, including the last-generation iPhone 4S, accounted for 69 percent of a 256 percent increase in trade-in offers through eBay's Instant Sale service after the new iPhone 5 was announced last week, while Android devices amounted to only 16 percent of total offers."

The real question is: who has time to analyze these kinds of statistics?

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