Monograph on the Apple Business Model

In 1984, Apple and the Macintosh challenged the world with the dramatic portrayal of a revolutionary woman hurling a hammer at an image of the establishment. With the Twentieth Anniversary of that event approaching, now is a good time to take a look back at this revolution and take stock of the new revolution that the Mac OS X operating system offers.

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Apple Music: Singing out of tune

If you have spent any time at all with the new Apple Music service, chances are you are disappointed. I am, my iBook-toting daughter is, and chances are if it ever gets to the PC world, the other 97% of computer users will be too.

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War Is A Racket

War is a Racket is the title of an essay written by General Smedley Butler. This general won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and

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First, Kill the Intellectuals

ARTICLE http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/01/21/students.website.ap/index.html Is it me, or does our society seem like it is fracturing? Split elections, impeachments, planes flying into buildings, war on foreign

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30 Pieces of Silver

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/22/leisure.gibson.reut/index.html I look forward to the release of Passion. I wonder if it is going to be released under the guises of the

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While we were sleeping

There is a news report that Vice-President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia went duck hunting recently. I don’t know about you,

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What’s New?

Missing first paragraph? Do you remember a few years ago when Steve Jobs popped a cork about a supplier who let slip a product

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100 Million Free Songs

Is it me, or does the Apple website with all the Pepsi bottles look like the an Attack of the Clones? 100 Million free

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The Dollar’s Not-So-Scary Swoon

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2004/nf20040130_2831_db013.htm In other words, foreigners are buying all our assets, our jobs are going overseas, but it is only an election ploy, so we

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I am not alone on this

I am not the only one disgusted with the new Pepsi ad, as the letters at the Register demonstrate. But, I suspect that Apple

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Gross Negligence

There are stories floating around the net that the FCC has not made the matching payments due to candidates running for President. This effectively

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Another crazy screenprinter

Having been around the screeprinting industry since I was 5 years old and putting covers on glass jars on a Saturday morning, I often

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Who to vote for?

I think Kucinich has the vision, Clark the ability to forge a consensus, and Kerry the experience to implement it. They are all weak

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My TV is broken

YEAH! My TV is broken. Granted, if it broke last night while the New England Patriots were beating the Tennessee Titans, I would be

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iSpeculate

There is a report that Apple has patented the name “iWrite”. I am not sure where I read it, but since it is in

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