Type of Article: MacTech Blog

Floating in middle Tennessee…

Posted by | May 4, 2010 | , |

So many of you have emailed about how I’m doing with the recent disaster in my neck of the woods, I simply don’t have time to write each and every one. But your thoughts are more appreciated than you can imagine. But here’s the short version….

The Great Flood of 2010, they’re calling it. Nothing great about it. Middle Tennessee got the most rain in history over the weekend and into Monday, and there were floods everywhere. Eleven people died (and maybe more; that’s the tally as I write this).

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Should Apple buy Netflix or just crush it?


Should Apple buy Netflix or just crush it?


Posted by | Apr 30, 2010 | , |

While Steve Jobs glibly passes the AppleTV device off as a “hobby”, he is too smart to have missed the big picture, as broadcast, cable TV and even satellite TV seem to have peaked and are in a slow decline in both customers and revenue. Then you see Blockbuster and countless other smaller video rental places in decline, you have to ask the question, where are the customers going?  DVD disk sales can’t be the answer either.  

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A call to action on those Mac OS-less Apple Design Awards…

Posted by | Apr 29, 2010 | , |

Okay, I’m still hacked off that Apple is only allowing iPhone and iPad apps in the 2010 Apple Design Awards (http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ada/). Various stories have already been written about this (links at the bottom). Now it’s time for a call to action.

The ADAs are designed to recognize apps that demonstrate technical excellence, innovation, technology adoption and more. So why has Apple decided to eliminate Mac products from the annual awards? If the company wants to spotlight the iPhone OS (and, for better or worse, it does) then why not have iPhone OS and Mac OS categories?

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