Type of Article: MacTech Blog

By Greg Mills

While I think I have a pretty good vocabulary at my disposal, the word “flummoxed”, which Steve Jobs used when he dropped the iPad 2 bomb on the PC market, perplexed me.  

I was pretty sure he wasn’t complementing the competition, but I had to Google the word to fully understand what he was saying. Having studied up on the word flummox and it’s deviates, I thought it might be fun to define the word in the context of the PC market, in a way everyone would fully appreciate. 

I’ve long been skeptical about cloud-based solutions, at least solutions that are totally cloud-based. Apparently, I’m not the only one.

The industry is rapidly moving content solutions to the cloud, but consumer interest is not keeping pace, as less than 30% of U.S. broadband households find the digital locker an attractive alternative for music or video, according to Parks Associates (http://www.parksassociates.com).

An Apple patent (number 2011054880) has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office that shows that Apple is planning on beefing up its Mac OS X and iOS technology for special needs students. The patent is for a system to accommodate disabilities of several students at once.