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Apple & Flash & H.264 A Never Ending Story – Infographics Explanation

Thx 2 http://eserrano.com/treble-click/images/Apple-Flash-Infographics.jpg         click pic  !!!


Posted by kl on Mai 11th, 2010 :: Filed under Chillout/Ambient/Lounge
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Steve Liver-Jobs Never Shares – Aint Nothing New – Will Apple Really Need Its $40 Billion? – Yes For Rainy Days

There are a lot of different words that are used to describe Steve Jobs’ approach to running Apple (some more pleasant than others). I think we can all agree that “conventional” isn’t one of them. Based on Jobs’ comments last week, it’s safe to say that this disregard for convention extends to financial matters. But in this case, Jobs’ originality might be less a sign of his distinct brand of genius than a strong paranoid streak.
As Matt Koppenheffer noted on Friday, Jobs recently shot down the idea that Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) would return to shareholders any part of the massive cash hoard it’s amassed from the booming sales of its shiny gadgets. The high priest of the Church of Apple justified his stance by arguing that the company’s cash and investments, which now total more than $40 billion (larger than Guatemala’s GDP, for those wondering), gives his company “security and flexibility” when it comes to making future moves.
A reluctance to make big moves
 However, even a quick look at Apple’s acquisition history makes it clear that this isn’t a company with a habit of doing high-profile deals that take a huge bite out of its balance sheet. In fact, the company’s largest moves in recent years have been its $268 million acquisition of chip company PA Semi in 2008, and its $275 million buyout of mobile advertising firm Quattro Wireless this January.
This reluctance to make splashy, expensive acquisitions seems to be a direct result of Apple’s unique business philosophy. As its supporters will vouch, the company is fanatically obsessed with quality control, and on adhering to its own particular vision of what a piece of hardware or software bearing the Apple logo should look like. Unlike, say, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), which is often content to let an acquired company function as a relatively independent unit, Apple’s obsessions would drive the company to completely rework the product line of any big-name tech company that it acquires, so that its products fully conform to its vision.
So while Apple’s cash pile might theoretically give the company the “flexibility” to snap up a Garmin (Nasdaq: GRMN) or TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO), the likelihood of such a move seems pretty remote. Based on Apple’s historical way of looking at things, the product-integration headaches would be too big, and the risk for damage to its stellar brand too great. Smaller moves aimed at picking up useful technology and/or rounding out the feature sets of its platforms have been far more to the company’s liking.
Is Hollywood a target? The one area where I could see Apple truly opening up its purse strings a bit is in deals with media companies. Given its squabbles with Hollywood studios regarding the availability and pricing of iTunes content, the company might decide to use some of its billions to make “strategic investments” in the likes of Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Viacom, or maybe gaming giant Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS), with the goal of guaranteeing the long-term success of iTunes (and indirectly, Apple’s consumer electronics hardware). But if the history of such moves is any guide (Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) investments in Comcast and AT&T are good examples), the total cost of the deals are unlikely to come anywhere near $40 billion — never mind the $60 billion or $70 billion that Apple might soon have on its hands, given its tremendous cash-generating ability.
Steve Jobs likes to be in control, whether over the minute details of his company’s products, or the enormous sums of money these products have created for his company. In the former area, this need for control has mostly worked to his shareholders’ benefit. But I’m not so sure that’s true in the latter.

Posted by kl on März 2nd, 2010 :: Filed under News
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Show & Sell: The Secret to Apple’s Black-Magic – The Book of Job 1:7

writin on an apple – chewing a coffee  ( Hell no!  upside down )

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The term “Satan” appears in the prose prologue of the Book of Job, with his usual connotation of “the adversary”, as a distinct being. He is shown as one of the celestial beings before the Deity, replying to the inquiry of GOD as to whence he had come, with the words: “from going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it”

(Job 1:7)

pple feel so ahead with apple-products & rarely switch even they had 2 replace it the fkn 4th Time ( iphone – imac )

my 2nd apple broke after 3 days – the next has bad probs with all plugs , usb – line in/out – screen – so my mobile disks simply disappearin regular – but whos me 2 care – my idea was the smart chinese guys down there in their factory boycottin it a lil ,

whether indifferent or by an higher order …

any improvenments on 10.6 ??  besides of “named” screenhots ?   64-bit - jaja – us mexicans knew the entire story from the start

me butt

ipad ? islate  3.000 $ -  FFS -  will it work ?

stevie the Inside-job   sjobs@apple.com    hes fixin everything but

dontcha forget our old buddy … whats his name …   microsoftman ,  i never swear i dunno right now –  is a big pack-holder at the mac-monopole

read what my 2nd-fav. nerds wrote bout it – under this J-O-B ( nawww… Not related to the black book in the Bible – wonder u dare 2 mind fooker ! ) Image

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from gizmodo :

Flash an exotic prototype, then—Presto!—get people to buy your more boring stuff. That kind of thinking still rules at most electronics companies. Apple under Steve Jobs only shows off actual products. The difference? Apple’s arcane secret to success.

A specter harrows the consumer electronics industry: malaise. Like washed-up Catskill magicians unable to let go of old routines while a brash upstart steals their audience, nearly every maker of consumer electronics in the world clings to a quaint song-and-dance about prototypes.

“Here is your possible future,” they bark, flourishing the latest conceptual product from the lab. “Now watch us make it disappear!”

Apple’s chief magician knows better, pulling solid objects out of the aether; products you can actually buy.

That the Consumer Electronics Show is held in Vegas is no accident. It’s a derelict spectacle meant to cater to mid-level buyers, gilt with the threadbare trappings of Innovation and Progress, but sending most of its audience home with nothing but a hangover and a t-shirt.

If this sounds like a minor complaint about most of the industry’s lack of imagination in marketing, you’re misunderstanding the whole act. The fact that Apple does not reveal prototypes but shipping products is the fundamental difference between their entire business strategy and that of the rest of the industry. It evokes a feeling of trust between Apple and consumers—that when Apple actually reveals a product, it’s something that they’re confident enough to support for years to come.

For the better part of the last century—starting arbitrarily with the 1934 Chicago World’s Fair and its stark, Randian slogan: “Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms”—the producers of consumer goods have stuck to a basic formula: Show off a prototype; gauge public response; then release a commercial product that is less ambitious, if released at all.

It worked in part because it told a compelling story. “Here is what the future looks like; and here’s an intermediate step towards that future that you can buy today.” Electronics’ sister industries followed the same tack. Car shows were populated with prismatic concept cars hewn with non-Euclidean angles rotating on raised daises. Videogame tech demos showed graphics too impossible to believe, but entrancing enough to betray our better judgment.

But in Jobs’ encore performance, Apple has changed the routine.

Outwardly Apple’s showmanship is competent, workmanlike. Jobs-as-performer wears an understated uniform that does not distract from the act. His humor, when it exists, is subtle. The closest an Apple keynote gets to pomp are pie charts that look like wooden logs.

Yet when Jobs reveals the company’s next product, there’s a critical difference: It exists. When possible, it is available for retail purchase the same day. There are fewmaybes or eventuallys tempering the presentation: “Here is the tiny miracle we’ve created. We want to sell it to you today.”

As a counter-example, let me pick on Lenovo for a moment: At CES this year, they showed off the Ideapad U1 prototype, a netbook with a screen that could be decoupled from the keyboard to operate as a multitouch tablet. Clever idea, seemingly well considered and brain-bendingly not available for purchase today.

Do you see the story that Lenovo is spoiling for themselves? First, they’ve deprecated the imagined utility of every other laptop they sell without the flashy removable tablet screen. Yet they’ve also whispered a nervous apology to potential customers: “We could make something this cool, but we’re not so confident in our plans to fully commit to them. Maybe you could tell us if you think you’d like this trick?”

Lenovo might make the U1. They might sell a few units. But simply by revealing it before it was a living, breathing SKU on retail shelves, they’ve relegated it to a quirky sideshow.

See also: The Chevy Volt, announced so long ago that GM has gone through a bankruptcy and shotgun CEO transition without actually being available for sale. Bet those will be flying off the lots.

Some of Apple’s peers understand the need to manage expectations. Have you ever seen RIM show off a BlackBerry prototype? What about Nintendo? They don’t pull a Microsoft-like move of showing very early-stage products to reporters and potential customers. They simply pull out a Wii or a DS and say, “This is it. Give it a try.”

Everybody loves a prototype. Engineers get a chance to strut their stuff. If you’ve got a 40-inch OLED TV in a lab somewhere, bring it to your trade show. Executives take pride in their company’s technical prowess. Marketers get an excuse to throw an even fancier party. And customers and press get idyll fodder for a daydream.

None of those things equal units sold. None of those things turn a customer into an ardent fan.

That an industry exists around rumors and leaks for unreleased products may be useful to Apple, but it is a side-effect of their product strategy, not the basis of their marketing. Consider that when Apple finally does release a product, the marketing tends to showcase the device itself in clear, comprehensible ways. Apple isn’t shy to make claims about the grandiose, epiphanal nature of its products because—whether they pull it off or not—they have built a culture in which every product they make is designed to be world class.

Instead of prototypes, Apple makes patents. Although I’m certain Apple would keep these patents behind the curtain if they legally could, their existence proves something amazingly pedestrian: Behind the scenes, Apple is essentially the same sort of company as every other electronics star in the world.

They’re developing prototypes. They’re trying new tricks, seeing what works. They know experimentation is the lifeblood of innovation.

But like the consummate showmen they are, they temper the wooly process of building the future with something missing from nearly every other technology company: restraint. Apple may come off at times as a bit soulless, but at least they’ve got class. And when that class allows them to sell more products that make happier customers, I’ll take class over flash every time.


When Apple pulls a tablet out of its hat next week, it’s likely that we won’t be able to purchase it for a couple of months, but rest assured that’s only because of regulatory pitfalls. And besides, there will be no doubt that when Jobs shows us his vision of the future, Apple will be doing everything they can do to get them into our hands.

That’s the trick of it. Consumer audiences have grown wary of nearly a century of predictable sleight-of-hand. We’ve seen too many companies promise us the future, then fail to deliver it.

I believe that there are dozens of companies out there with the talent to pull the future toward us along some retail tesseract. But until they conquer their stage fright, leave aside the vaudevillian antics that savvy, jaded audiences no longer find compelling, and embrace a more honest and practical sort of conjuration, Apple will continue to be the defining technology performance of our age.

What do I do when Satan attacks?

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“Be careful! Watch out for attacks from the Devil, your great enemy. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for some victim to devour. Take a firm stand against him, and be strong in your faith. Remember that your Christian brothers and sisters all over the world are going through the same kind of suffering you are.

1 Peter 5:8-9 NLT

Leo Allen – Missing Bible Excerpts



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Posted by kl on Januar 20th, 2010 :: Filed under Chillout/Ambient/Lounge, News
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How Fanboys View Other Operating Systems

Geekologie 09/12

This is a little graphic depicting how fanboys view their operating system compared to others. I thought it was pretty cute, especially the little Mac boy. Also, who else feels like they got Windows as viewed by Linux’d last night? Just me? Cool.

How Fanboys See Operating Systems
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Thanks to this Sender, who pledges no allegiance to any operating system except his central nervous one.


Posted by admin on Dezember 27th, 2009 :: Filed under Chillout/Ambient/Lounge
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