Andrew Orlowski

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  • Nokia, Apple and Sudden Extinction Events

    Nokia, Apple and Sudden Extinction Events

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Every day brings fresh gloom for Nokia – and the criticisms are now so familiar I won’t elaborate on them. But I was struck by a recent observation likening Nokia’s plight now to Apple’s in the mid-1990s. It seems absurd, at first – Nokia is still turning a profit in the billions, while Apple’s annual…

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  • For me, the iPad is just a port short

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Quite unexpectedly, it’s looking like a useful bit of daily computing kit. It hasn’t taken long for the iPad to be seen as a bit more than a pointless and expensive luxury lifestyle accessory. Just nine weeks – and in that time the hardware spec hasn’t changed at all. But last week’s iPhone 4.0 preview,…

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  • Rescuing Palm

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    You know you’re in trouble when your revenue is $1bn less than you’d expected for the year. But a few companies might envy being in Palm’s position. It has an excellent product it can’t sell, and in webOS an asset that wealthy rivals – Nokia, Samsung or Microsoft – would pick up in a snap.……

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  • Apple and the Gentlemen from the Networks (or, why it pays to turn up Really, Really Late)

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    This week Apple threw the kitchen sink at its iPhone/Touch software stack, removing most of the most irritating nuisances at a stroke. It’s a stunning achievement. So Apple now finds itself where everyone else in the mobile handset business wanted to be 15 years ago. Large companies full of clever people devoted years of planning…

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  • Apple (finally) tries to patent BluePod

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Apple will fill in some long-awaited missing features from its iPod and iPhone mobile players, a patent application published this week suggests. There’s just one problem: Much of Apple’s “invention” was dreamed up by Reg readers several years ago – and one embodiment is already on the market.… Read More

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  • How the iPhone puts a bomb under mobile networks

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    If you think everything that could have been written about the iPhone already has been written, prepare to be surprised. One vital aspect of Apple’s strategy has been overlooked – with multi-billion consequences for complacent network operators. Over at Telco 2.0, the blog of analysts STL Partners, we learn that networks who partner with Apple…

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