fighting the lack of good ideas
It took Apple 5.5 (or 6, if you count last week as really hitting it) years to introduce what I called the MacBook Flex back in 2015. With the 13″ MacBook Pro available in an M1-powered edition (which is so much better than the top-end MBP from 2019…it’s not even funny), and now a 5G-enabled…
Tesla’s Model 3 is debuting at $35,000. That is distinctly in the range of most “normal” people to obtain. It should be shipping sometime in 2017. I’d buy one.
Time to look back at last year’s tech predictions. I did this at the half-way point, so let’s see what has changed since then. AIX is still kickin’ HPUX hasn’t died yet 🙁 Solaris is still being clung-to by Oracle HP split in half – count this a win IBM has dropped from 162 to…
Back in Feb, I published a list of tech-related predictions for 2015. How’m I doing? Let’s see ones that have happened (or are very close to have happened): Itanium OEL’d HP spinning-off business units – sorta, they’re splitting in half IBM is losing value … but not as much as I predicted (yet) cloud is…
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Dallas News ran a story recently on Apple being positioned to be a car maker. Their reasoning: Cash (~$180B) It’s “ultimately” mobile They have “car guys” already Strong retail network They’re already global I think it more likely they’d buy an existing manufacturer, and then Apple-ify them – but the arguments are strong that an…
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I put these up as a comment on Cringely.com – but they deserve sharing here, too. In no particular order: – AIX EoL’d – HP-UX retired – Itanium EoL’d (perhaps on an accelerated schedule) – Solaris truly open-sourced / abandoned by Oracle in favor of OEL – HP spins-off more business units – IBM loses…
Albert-László Barabási’s book “Bursts: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody Crusades” is fascinating. In the same overall genre as Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers (review) – pop psychology and pop science – Bursts is a great read: bringing highly technical and dense topics to the masses in a manner that [apparently]…