Type of Article: MacTech Blog

Online video services to get bigger and better

Posted by | Jun 11, 2010 | , |

Well, this is good news for Apple’s iTunes service (and perhaps a revamped Apple TV, when it happens): nearly half (46%) of 18- to 25-year-olds spend as much time using online video services as they do watching TV, says RealNetworks.

Research by online video software firm revealed that just under a third (32%) say the computer is their preferred platform for watching TV and video. However, when it comes to 36- to 45-year-olds, 20% watch at least 50% of TV programs and movies via a computer.

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Greg’s bite: the quick assimilation of things Apple

Greg’s bite: the quick assimilation of things Apple

Posted by | Jun 10, 2010 | , |

By Greg Mills

I am off to Orlando to marry off my last single sister-in-law and noticed that airline security didn’t blink about the iPad going through security. Matter of fact, they said the laptop needs to be in its own tray, but the iPad is OK with other items.

On the plane when they said electronic items need to be turned off, they specifically included laptops, cell phones and iPads. Note that they didn’t say slate computers or netbooks, but rather iPads, specifically.

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The obituary for the Mac

Posted by | Jun 9, 2010 | , |

“Newsweek” ran an obituary for the Mac yesterday (see http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/techtonic-shifts/2010/06/08/does-apple-s-iphone-4-signal-the-death-of-the-macintosh.html) in which it said that the “future of Apple is no longer centered around the Macintosh.”

“You Mac guys just got kicked to the curb, relegated to the steaming dung heap of the past,” “Newsweek” wrote. “The future, for Apple, is all about iPhones and iPads, and, more important, the operating system software that powers them — the sexy new iOS 4, which these days seems to be getting most of Steve’s attention.”

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Greg’s bite: iPad, the foundation, the digital juggernaut

Greg’s bite: iPad, the foundation, the digital juggernaut

Posted by | Jun 8, 2010 | , |

By Greg Mills

(Note:  I am writing this on Sunday, the day before the Apple WWDC keynote.) The mainstream “paper press” seems to be faltering all around the US. Most major newspapers are running in the red and have been losing money for some time now.  

One paper in Honolulu bought the other paper so now there is one. Major economic changes are taking place at a breath-taking pace. This is very bad if you are part of the old content economy, but very good if you are part of the digital content delivery revolution.  

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