Posted by Greg Mills
With all the stories that are going to be posted in the next few days or weeks on Mac OS X Lion, the adoption of the newest system is a slam dunk for many of us. There are those however, who are still running the OS that came with their older computers.
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The legal conclusions made in various tech writers blogs regarding a patent troll suit over playlists on iPod are faulty. While it is true a judgment went against Apple in the East Texas Federal Court, the likelihood of Apple actually paying 8 million dollars isn’t slam dunk, by any means.
Apple contends that not only did they not violate the 2 patents cited, both patents are invalid anyway. While three other companies who were also sued settled out of court, Apple hung in there and went to trial.
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Cannacord Genuity analyst Mike Walkley has noted that a high percentage of Android smartphone users abandon their chosen platform when they buy an iPad instead of any other tablet. Walkley anticipates that Apple will have roughly 250 million iOS users by the end of the year. He also figures that there is about an annual 40% “replacement rate” on existing iOS users buying another newer iPhone or iPad.
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Posted by Greg Mills
Apple has such a tiger by the tail trying to keep up with the demand for iPad2, adding a completely new model seems unlikely. However, Apple has a history of turning unlikely products into stelar success stories.
If iPad2 is a success, the natural development of the product line is to add smaller and larger screen sizes and alternative feature sets to create a line of iPads. The one size fits all notion has limits as customers and customer needs vary.
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HP bought Palm for it’s technology a while back and has funded the work on continuing to develop the Palm webOS smartphone platform. HP hopes to use the Palm webOS in its upcoming mobile devices.
The history of Palm is one of missed opportunities and squandered innovation. At one time PDA and cellphones hadn’t yet merged and Palm had a great PDA product set.
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