Apple TV is a bookmark, not a product
Apple announced two things in San Francisco this month and only one of them is going to matter, which is a shame,…
Apple iPhone Introduction Announcement
Apple introduces iPhone revolutionizing mobile phone design with touch screen interface and intuitive user experience.
CES 2007: The Calm Before the Storm
CES 2007 is all plasmas and the Blu-ray war, until Apple shows the first iPhone the same week and quietly points the…
Everyone is selling 1080p and nothing outputs it
Las Vegas this month was wall to wall with 1080p panels, and the number is on every sign because it is the…
Steve Jobs Unveils iPhone at Macworld, Revolutionary Multi-Touch Smartphone Launches June 29
Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone on January 9, 2007 during Macworld Conference keynote presentation introducing revolutionary multi-touch smartphone combining iPod…
2006 was a year of positioning, not products
If you had to explain 2006 to somebody in one sentence, the honest version is that a great many companies spent it…
2006 Console War Results: Wii Sells 3.5M Units While PS3 Manages Only 1.2M
Nintendo’s Wii sold 3.5 million units globally by year-end 2006 while PlayStation 3 managed only 1.2 million, establishing Nintendo’s motion-controlled console as…
Three consoles, two different fights
Three consoles launched into the same eight weeks and the industry has spent the whole year describing it as a war between…
2006 was the year nobody fixed the phone interface
Every smartphone worth discussing this year was operated with a thumb on a keypad or a stylus on a resistive panel, and…
Flat panel prices collapsed and nobody is ready for HD
A flat panel television that cost several thousand dollars two Christmases ago is being sold this month at a price that would…
Freescale Goes Private and Toulouse’s Chip Bet Gets Tested
Toulouse builds deep semiconductor talent and robotics research layers that power later IoT and physical AI breakthroughs.
The Zune’s best feature was negotiated into uselessness
Microsoft has spent five years telling hardware partners to build music players around its PlaysForSure system, and this month it launched a…
The HD disc war is a fight nobody turned up to
Both high definition disc formats have now been on sale for most of a year and the honest summary of the war…
Nintendo Wii Launches in Japan Introducing Motion Controls to Mainstream Gaming
Nintendo launched Wii in Japan on December 2, 2006, introducing motion-controlled gaming to mainstream audiences with innovative Wii Remote controllers and $250…
Nintendo undersold its own console and is now paying for it
Nintendo announced this week that it sold roughly six hundred thousand Wii consoles in the United States in the first eight days…