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It’s All In How You Look At It
Speculating about the next Apple product is a cottage industry that’s generally useful for nothing more than driving clicks and feeding the trolls. But today, Ben Kunz at BusinessWeek had a thoughtful...
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Apple and Foxconn Commit Some Cash
How much and in what percentage is unclear, but according to John Ruwitch at Reuters: Apple Inc and its key supplier Foxconn Technology Group will share the initial costs of improving labor conditions...
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On “Crystal Prisons”, Rights, and the Reality of Competing Values
A couple of days ago, the Electronic Frontier Foundation released a manifesto on the future of computing, claiming that companies that offer closed computing systems (like Apple and Microsoft) are...
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Gruber on EFF
The incisive, insightful John Gruber on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s manifesto: The piece is supposed to be a criticism of Apple’s platform design and policies, but really, what they’re doing...
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Apple’s Evolutionary Newton Turns Twenty
When I started my doctoral studies in 1995, I had a great computer, but it wasn’t a laptop. I really wanted something simple that I could take with me to the library and take notes on journal articles....
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A Modest Proposal for Fanboys
Omar Gallaga at CNN dreams the impossible dream for Apple vs. Samsung: A Peace Treaty. WHEREAS, the respective Parties, the Apple Fanboys also known as “Apple Fanbois,” “Fanb0yz,” “iPhoners” or simply...
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Things Are More Modern-er Than Before…It’s Computers!
After Apple’s most recent earnings call, the company’s stock fell and pundits began another round predictions about its immanent demise. In response to the hyperbole and Chicken Little-ism, Sloan...
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