Type of Article: MacTech Blog

Greg’s bite: why Android has peaked

Greg’s bite: why Android has peaked

Posted by | Feb 1, 2011 | , |

By Greg Mills

When the Motorola/Apple cell phone came out in the summer of 2005, it was a great disappointment to both Apple and Apple fans. You might as well have taped an iPod to a standard cell phone. It sucked. Apple, by that point in time, already knew to do a cell phone right; they would have to start from scratch. The first thing they did was junk their cell phone engineering relationship with Motorola and scrap conventional notions of what a cell phone was.  

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Greg’s bite: Netgear’s CEO rants

Greg’s bite: Netgear’s CEO rants

Posted by | Jan 31, 2011 | , |

By Greg Mills

Wow, can you still make wine with sour grapes? I read an article published in an Australia-based publication with an interview with Netgear CEO Patrick Lo. Lo ranted and raved about the impending doom of Apple due to “closed up products.” Translated from Australian, he means it really ticks him off that Netgear is locked out of much of the Apple market.

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Reporter’s notebook: closing thoughts

Posted by | Jan 29, 2011 | , |

Macworld Expo 2011 — the annual trade show in San Francisco touting Apple-related products — ends today (Saturday), and Macworld 2012 is slated for Jan. 26-28

This year’s show was successful and very energetic with all the vendors and the visitors (an estimated 26,000) getting up close and personal. The only “major” vendor from past shows was with Hewlett-Packard. However, not everyone was impressed.

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