Tag: apple
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Apple, Tesco ‘most to blame’ for music biz crisis
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Andrew Orlowski
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A new report suggests that Apple and Tesco, not P2P file sharers, should take the most blame for the woes of the British music industry. The report, prepared privately by consultants Capgemini for the Value Recognition Strategy working group, set out to examine the “value gap”, the amount sound recordings revenue has fallen in the…
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Why ‘Microsoft vs Mankind’ still matters
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Andrew Orlowski
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For all but three of the past 17 years, Microsoft has been involved in antitrust litigation with government agencies. That’s enough to wear anyone down. But as Europe’s highest appeals court delivered its judgement on Monday, I did notice some ennui – not from dogged old hacks, but from a new generation of pundits. Take…
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How the ‘Jesus Phone’ was really John The Baptist
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Andrew Orlowski
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So was nine months of relentless iPhone hype and froth just a distraction? Not quite, but you could be forgiven for thinking so. I believe Apple’s most important product of 2007 was actually announced this week, and its significance has been slow to sink in. It might be one of the cleverest moves Apple’s ever…
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Why I want the iPhone to succeed
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Andrew Orlowski
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I’m glad the iPhone’s is here – and I have very selfish reasons for wanting it to succeed. That’s because even without the cellular telephony, it looks like something I’ve been wanting to buy. But it’s also because after years of writing about smartphones, I’ve seen the established players become lazy and complacent, go down…
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Creativity now dependent on machinery, says New Age Judge
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Andrew Orlowski
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What sealed Palm’s software fate?
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Andrew Orlowski
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So, PalmOS ends up in the hands of an Japanese mobile browser company that almost no one has ever heard of. It’s a sad sign that expectations for PalmOS software have been so low, for so long, that PalmSource stock leapt 70 per cent on the news. The origins of this decline have been well…