Vizio and HP announced what can only be described as iMac rip-offs — Windows desktops that shamelessly borrow design elements from Apple’s all-in-one. Well, if you’re gonna rip off someone, might as well rip off the best — and the iMac is the industry’s best-selling all-in-one desktop.
Read MoreSooner or later (well, okay, later) we’ll see Macs with flexible displays. However, that groundbreaking achievement will come first with smaller devices such as the iPhone and iPad.
A flexible display is a thin, rollable display used in a variety of applications such as e-paper, digital signage, smartphones, TVs, and other consumer products. Flexible displays are on LCD, e-paper, LED or OLED. Out of these display technologies, flexible OLED display is the advanced type of display. These displays are looked upon as the future mainstream display for a number of consumer products.
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There were more death knells for the personal computer this week. They were unwarranted — the personal computer will evolve, but isn’t going away — but make interesting reading.
Jim Van Meerlen, writing for “The Street” (http://macte.ch/ZVHXN) — points out that almost every day the headlines read “The PC is Dead.” He also wants to add “so is Dell.”
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When we think of Apple, we think of a company that spends a big hunk of its profits on research and development as it develops the Next Big Thing. Well, perhaps not so much.
In a recent “MacLife” column, Rik Myslewski pointed out that Apple has about USS$117 billion in the bank, and its R&D budget for the previous fiscal quarter was 0.75% of that amount. In contrast, IBM had $11.2 billion in cash and spent 14.6% of that on research and development.
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An Apple patent (number 20120258707) for multiple network mobile device connection management has popped up at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. It involves connection management for mobile wireless devices that support multiple wireless networks where each wireless network can use a different wireless communication technology.
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