And here, in a single image, is why we have no idea what Apple may or may not be working on, why it is useless to speculate about it, and why almost anything we can think it might be act or look like is likely wrong.
If you’re not paying attention (and I’m paying maybe too much) there’s rumors about an Apple “smart watch” or iWatch. But this slide does show why usually whatever we think of ahead of time will be wrong…
Random thoughts on capital expenditures and space travel.
Horace Dediu, on Apple’s PP&E:
Coincidentally, according to Claude Lafleur of The Space Review:
The US has spent $486 billion over 57 years on human spaceflight, an average of $8.3 billion a year.
In real dollars, the Apollo program cost about $109 billion over 15 years. A billion dollars less per year.
Speaks for itself.
Priceonomics intern Daniel investigates. In a word, yes! If the product you want to buy is available refurbished, you should buy it. If not, you can save on average 17% buying it used, but that is a lot more work.
Read the full report: The Apple (Used) Premium?
To buy used, or not to buy used — that is the question. The answer, with Apple products, is yes.
Rather neat. I don’t think it’ll replace Instacast for me, but I will be recommending it to friends in the future (as a free option).
This looks cool. There’s not even a need to put, “Actually for a Microsoft product” or something in front of it. Not sure how well it’ll do, but the Liquid Magnesium manufacturing process and the Touch Cover keyboard are nifty features that I wish could be sampled by Apple or some of the third parties to come on over to their stuff. I hope this strategy works for them.
But now I’m wondering about all those people who held up Microsoft and Windows as the reason why Open (for manufacturing) always wins? It looks like they’re clearly no longer correct and that integrated products appear to be the way to go (see also: Motorola/Google).
But I do wonder one thing: There’s no cellular data component in this. Microsoft had no carrier partners up on stage with them, at all. So that is one thing that they’re currently missing in version 1.
Oh wow. Just great. (Click the initial link if you don’t get it)
A monologue on the human price we are willing to pay for our government, with some dramatic license (obviously)
I look at the faces of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson in my hands for what must be the ten-millionth time when the question pops into my head: who are these people? It’s like a…
Well now. I’m glad they stepped forward to clarify this.
Here’s a link to a round up of sorts.
“There’s a common theme: all of us placed bets on Apple at a time when it wasn’t particularly sexy to do so. Some of these bets may have been with money in terms of stock purchases (for the record, I don’t own any Apple stock). Some of these bets may have been with money in terms of Apple purchases (guilty). But the biggest bet we all made was with our most precious commodity: time.
I’ve devoted so much time to learning about, thinking about, and writing about this one company, that I’ll be honest: it’s gratifying to see the company achieve the level of success that it has. I’m not (quite) arrogant enough to think that I’ve had a meaningful impact on that success, but it still matters to me. It’s a bit like the sports team you root for — long a prohibitive underdog — win it all.
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This. Though I’ve not been doing much gloating myself aloud/online (not being around people who care much at all about it right now), I’m gloating inside.
Wow, what a nightmare. I like new features, and being unable to get them (while still under a 2-year contract even!) would drive me nearly insane. (Via @asymco)
The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…
Quite an interesting blurb. I agree, keeping a robotic voice artificial keeps down expectations, where when they make mistakes yet sound human causes anger.
