By Greg Mills
The well oiled machine that is the Apple iTunes/App store is a far cry from the Android apps stores. While there are stories in the press about various app developers beginning to write apps for the Google smart phones, there are also just as many stories about developer’s serious problems dealing with that loosely controlled “go to market” system.
Read MoreIt’s too early to tell how much 3D TVs will take off — though it looks as if they’re shaping up to be a success over the long haul. And that means we’ll eventually see 3D supported on computer displays. But that’s likely to be a while.
While 3DTV has been the topic of much industry excitement and hockey stick adoption forecasts, recent research conducted by Strategy Analytics (http://www.strategyanalytics.com) suggests that it will remain very much an event-driven technology, attractive to a select group of consumers.
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By Greg Mills
When Apple obsoletes technology a groan generally goes up from both people used to the status quo and hardware companies that are directly affected. Remember the demise of floppy drives and the near death of FireWire? Such a groan went up when Apple recently launched the new MacBook Air laptops that, like iPad, iPods and the Apple TV uses flash memory instead of a hard drive.
Read MoreMaybe it was to preserve battery life, but there’s no backlit keyboard on the new MacBook Airs. I think that’s a mistake on Apple’s part.
I’ve always found the backlit keyboard one of the most useful feature on the Apple laptops I’ve purchased. Apparently, I’m not the only one who thinks so. You can check out a thread on the Apple Forums about the lack of a backlit keyboard: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2620491&tstart=0 .
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Could cloud-based radio be part of iTunes’ future? Three patents at the US Patent & Trademark Office indicate that Apple has at least considered it. Or at least you can expect radio implemented in more versions of the iPod than the nano.
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