Of albums, iTunes LPs and the iPad
I’m enough of a dinosaur that I want my albums in CD form, for the most part. However, I have bought some iTunes LPs and, if I decided to go all digital in the future, this is the format I’d prefer.
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iPhone could overtake Blackberry in market share next year
New data from Trefis (http://www.trefis.com), a new financial platform that allows you to see how a company’s products impact its stock, says the iPhone could overtake the Blackberry in market share in 2011.
As reported by “Forbes” (http://blogs.forbes.com/greatspeculations/2010/03/05/iphone-could-overtake-blackberry-market-share-in-2011/), Trefis says RIM’s market share lead over Apple has been shrinking and Apple will be able to overtake RIM market share by early 2011. Trefis believes sales of the iPhone will eventually outpace BlackBerry sales for the following reasons:
Read MoreGaming on the Mac picking up Stream
Now that Vale is bringing its Steam, Valve’s gaming service, and Source, Valve’s gaming engine, to the Mac, the Mac gaming situation should improve.
Not that it’s been terrible. However, gamers have long complained about the lack of Mac games — at least compared to the bazillion gaming titles for the PeeCee.
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Analyst: iPad will beat Kindle’s all-time sales in three months
Apple could have the bestselling e-book reader of all time in just three months on the market, according to an estimate from FBR Capital analyst Craig Berger.
In a note to clients — as noted by the “Latest Electronics” site (http://www.latestelectronics-dennis.com/?p=3117) he thinks Apple is set to ship five million iPads just in the first half of 2010. At this rate, the tablet would push past Amazon’s unofficial lifetime record of three million Kindles in just the three-month span between early April and the end of June.
Read MoreEFF criticizes the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) — an organization founded to promote rights in the online and networked world — has blasted the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, saying that the “entire family of devices built on the iPhone OS (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad) have been designed to run only software that is approved by Apple – a major shift from the norms of the personal computer market.”
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