I woke up Saturday morning to the somewhat troubling news that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had undergone a liver transplant a couple of months ago. Obviously, if Mr. Jobs was ill, it isn’t troubling that he received the transplant, and I wish him well in his recovery. What did trouble me, and will likely trouble …
Monthly Archive: June 2009
Jun
19
Patron Saint of file sharing.
Jammie Thomas-Rasset, I’m convinced, will someday be hailed as a martyr of the digital revolution. Yesterday, a federal jury ordered Thomas-Rasset — a 32-year-old mother of four — to pay $1.2 million for illegal file sharing in the first and only case waged in the courtroom over file sharing. That jury found that Thomas-Rasset was …
Jun
18
Location: Tehran. Avatar: Not green.
Like so many on Twitter (and elsewhere), I’ve been following whatever developments I can about the Iran elections. I share the concerns of the world about the obvious sham of an election and I’m waiting, nervously, to see Iran erupt into full-blown civil war. In the last couple of days, Twitter users have started adding …
Jun
17
A case for Apple netbooks.
Whenever someone mentions that Apple should make a netbook, the fanboys come out in droves, fervently defending The Great Jobs and Co.’s failure to enter that space as the smartest way to go. They say Apple doesn’t need a netbook, and that machines like the Macbook Air and really the future. They defend the idea …
Jun
15
Apple: Behind the hype, there’s desperation.
Behind the hype of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference last week — the new iPhone OS, the price drops for Macbooks and the Snow Leopard release — I got the sense that something is not altogether right in the Apple universe these days. It’s almost as if there’s a bit of desperation lurking behind the hype. …
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