A long afternoon of teeth-gnashing for early iCloud adopters
When Microsoft (MSFT) was developing Windows NT in the early 1990s, the project manager insisted that the 200 engineers assigned to the task do it on computers running NT's latest build -- a practice known in the industry as dogfooding.
Early adopters of Apple's (AAPL) iCloud got a taste of what that's like Wednesday when the company released, in short order:
OS X 10.7.2, the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 13, 2011 11:14 AM ET
IDC gives Apple an even bigger edge, with Mac's U.S. shipments outpacing PCs 80 to 1
Source: Gartner
Tim Cook may not have seen the latest numbers. Or perhaps he's just more modest than Steve Jobs was. But he understated matters somewhat when he told the press last week that the Mac outgrew the PC market almost six times in the year ending in June and that it had outpaced its MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 13, 2011 7:25 AM ET
For Edmunds.com and its President, Avi Steinlauf, the Apple iPad is transforming the workplace.
By Alex Konrad, reporter
Steinlauf drives his business with an iPad.
FORTUNE -- Avi Steinlauf doesn't sleep with his iPad, but otherwise the Apple (AAPL) tablet is almost always by his side. Like a growing number of senior executives, Steinlauf, president of car-guide publisher Edmunds.com, views his iPad as a crucial business tool -- and not just for sending MORE
Oct 13, 2011 5:00 AM ET
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"Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership (hi Larry, Sergey, Eric, Vic, howdy howdy) down to the very lowest leaf workers (hey yo). We all don't get it." -- Google engineer Steve Yegge in a reportedly leaked blog post. (Silicon MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Oct 13, 2011 3:30 AM ET
The Street is looking for a falloff in sales. The amateurs are looking for a blowout.
Data: Company reports; Apple 2.0
I expect Apple (AAPL) to report two important iPhone statistics next week.
The first, the number of iPhone 4S units sold this coming weekend, the company won't know until after midnight Sunday. The other, the number of iPhones sold last quarter, it already has in hand.
In this post, I'm going to MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 12, 2011 2:20 PM ETLong-awaited and much speculated over, Facebook's native iPad app discretely made its way into the App Store early this week. Fortune goes hands-on.
FORTUNE -- It's hard to believe that it took Facebook a year-and-a-half to release its own iPad app, given that solid third-party alternatives like Friendly for Facebook have been available since last year. The app had reportedly been delayed several times and a build even leaked. Yet only MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Oct 12, 2011 1:31 PM ETFirst, a puzzlingly disappointing "new feature." Then, a massive network outage. Can RIM do anything right?
FORTUNE -- It's hard to come up with a good metaphor for Research in Motion. The Keystone Kops is an easy one, but not all of RIM's troubles are of its own making. The Old Testament character Job? Also not quite right, because most of RIM's troubles are of its own making. How about Job MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Oct 12, 2011 1:11 PM ET
Location-based deals firms have had their fair share of problems in the recent past. Now, SCVNGR thinks it's found a way to keep customers coming back.
By Alex Konrad, reporter
FORTUNE -- Daily deals firms have had a rough few months. Barely known two years ago, companies like FourSquare and Groupon are now practically household names. With the attention has come a barrage of criticism: Groupon's creative accounting came under fire amid MORE
Oct 12, 2011 11:10 AM ET
My iPhone 4S was making swift progress until it landed in Kentucky
UPS' Louisville Global Operations Center. Image: Google Street View
Like more than a million Apple (AAPL) customers I ordered a new iPhone last Friday. Since then I've been been tracking its movements on UPS. I watched leave the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China, Saturday afternoon. I saw it pass swiftly through Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong. I watched it jet MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 12, 2011 10:05 AM ET
A taste of what the early users had to say. Spoiler: They loved it.
Photo: Apple Inc.
Apple must have handed out a lot of pre-release units at the "Let's Talk iPhone" press event last week. I counted at least a dozen hands-on reviews Wednesday morning. A sampling:
The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg: The iPhone Finds Its Voice. The iPhone 4S is one of Apple's less dramatic updates, but, when combined with MORE Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 12, 2011 5:45 AM ETEvery morning, discover the companies, deals and trends in tech that are moving markets and making headlines. SUBSCRIBE
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