By Greg Mills
While I try wax eloquent in my occasional digs at Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and all things Windows, it takes an actual PC fan boy to roast ’em right. Jakob Nielsen, described as a “user interface guru,” slammed Windows 8 so hard the glass broke.I try to inject a little humor in my criticism, but Nielsen chops em up like stew meat on a butcher block. Nothing funny about it.
Read MoreWith the launch of the iPhone and iPad, as well as the new MacBook, Apple has continued on its path of increasing its display resolution. And it will continue doing so.
Apple created the term “Retina display” not just as a marketing phrase, but to educate end users about high resolution. The company has been leading the trend in displays with high pixels per inch (ppi, the measurement of resolution), especially with the launch of iPhone 4, the first smart phone with a resolution of more than 300 ppi, and the new iPad, the first tablet PC with over 200 ppi.
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Apple and Google’s Motorola Mobility division are discussing a way to resolve part of their dispute over smartphone patent, reports “Bloomberg” (http://macte.ch/hG6mM).
“The companies have been exchanging proposals on using binding arbitration to reach a licensing agreement over patents that are essential to comply with industry standards on how phones operate,” the article says. “Such an agreement could lead to a global settlement of all of their patent disputes, Apple said in a filing yesterday.”
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Despite relatively stunted growth thus far, the tablet and camera markets are forecast to be the next major market for location-based services and GPS IC penetration, according to new data from ABI Research (www.abiresearch.com).
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More great news — moneywise, at least — for Apple: price comparison shopping site, PriceGrabber (www.pricegrabber.com) has leased the results of its third winter holiday shopping survey, revealing consumers’ expected shopping habits within the tech category this holiday season.
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