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Gizmodo Stepped Over the Line

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A friend sent me this link this week. It details an email conversation between Gizmodo and Jason Scott about Gizmodo’s recent 1979 feature. Here’s how Gizmodos intern Don Nguyen started the conversation:

We are currently working on features about technology thirty years ago, and one of the issues we want to look in to is the state of pornography on BBS ‘networks’ in 1979 and the very early 1980s. I came across your great documentary about BBS, and was wondering if there is any information you could provide us with that would help for the article.

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Looking at the IIGS and the 3GS

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Fron the Learning in Hand blog:

I thought it would be interesting to compare iPhone 3G S with one of Apple’s desktop computers from 20 years ago, Apple IIGS. The “GS” in IIGS stood for graphics and sound. However, it’s clear that today’s iPhone is much better with graphics and sound. The “S” in 3G S stands for speed. Compared to IIGS, 3G S certainly is the speedier computer. The similarities of these two computing devices pretty much stop at their names.

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A Smart Look at Apple and Netbooks

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Kate MacKenzie:

Think about what a netbook really becomes. A shared email and browser that does IM, and frustrates everywhere else. Battery life? Low. Keyboard? Mushy. Multimedia performance? Slow. Disappointment? High.

My iPod touch functions pretty much like a very, very small netbook PC. I check email. I type out a few quick responses. I browse. I google ( no caps needed, it’s a verb now). I can also IM, play movies, play music, play games and do what no netbook PC can ever do.

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Apple Dominating High-End Market

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Betanews:

According to NPD, in June, nine out of 10 dollars spent on computers costing $1,000 or more went to Apple. Mac revenue market share in the “premium” price segment was 91 percent, up from 88 percent in May.

That’s pretty damn good. And it reinforces Tim Cook’s statement the other day regarding netbooks:

Our goal is not to build the most computers, it’s to build the best. Whatever price point we can build the best at, we will play there. At this point, we don’t see the way to build a great product for this $399-$499, this kind of price point unit. And, as I’ve said before—and I think this is playing out in many areas—many customers become disappointed and disenchanted after they’ve bought one of these.

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The Future of the iPod

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Macworld:

While Apple doesn’t usually break out sales figures for individual products, during Tuesday’s conference call with analysts, Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer went out of his way to say that the iPod touch itself did “extremely well in the quarter, growing more than 130 percent” compared to the year-ago quarter. In other words, while iPod sales in general fell 7.2 percent compared to last quarter, the iPod touch was selling like gangbusters.

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The Numbers

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Mac Rumors:

Apple shipped 2.6 million Macintosh computers during the quarter, a unit increase of 4 percent over the year-ago quarter. The company also sold 10.2 million Pods during the quarter, representing 7 percent unit decline over the year-ago quarter. Quarterly iPhone unit sales reached 5.2 million, up 626 percent from the year-ago quarter.

Damn.

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