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Apple Rules Retail In Over $1,000 Range
Report: Apple's market share of PCs over $1,000 hits 66%
Apple Dominates $1,000+ Retail Computer Sales
Firefox 3 On Track To Be Speediest Browser
Hon Hai To Enter Contract Notebook PC Business -Report
Apple Goes To War (This Time Not With Microsoft)
Ars Technica acquired by Condé Nast
Palm Likens Self To Apple, Sees Os In 2009
My First iMac
Best of Both Worlds: OS X and Windows
Medem Collaborates with Google to Connect Patients with Doctors Online Medem Provides Integrated Service for Users at the Launch of Google Health
The Mac Night Owl: Just Another Mac Hardware Reliability Rant
Apple Rules Retail In Over $1,000 Range
MacUser's Dan Moren reports:
It's long been argued that Macs are the luxury cars of the PC market: they might cost a little more, but you're paying that premium for something that's better put together and has higher performance than the bargain bin options. And while we all know that the Mac has been achieving huge growth in the past few years, Apple's overall market share tends to remain on the low side.
Unsurprisingly, their retail share (read: brick-and-mortar stores) is a little higher, at 14% for the first quarter of 2008. But what if we slice out those bargain bin computers favored by so many (including most businesses)? eWeek did just that with numbers from NPD Group and found something rather interesting.....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macuser.com/business/apple_rules_retail_in_over_100.php
Report: Apple's market share of PCs over $1,000 hits 66%
Apple 2.0's Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports:
Here's a new way to slice Apple's growing share of the computer market.
Last March, the NPD Group reported that Apple's retail market share - its cut of the computers sold in brick-and-mortar stores - had climbed to 14%, a figure that's roughly double its overall share of the U.S. market and reflects the power of the Apple Store to draw customers and move product.
What NPD didn't report at the time was the huge growth in Apple's share of the so-called "premium" computer market - machines that cost more than $1,000....
Apple's share of the $1,000-plus retail market was less than 18% in January 2006 according to NPD. By September 2007, it had grown to more than 57%. And in the first quarter of 2008 it hit a record 66%.
For the full report visit here:
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/05/19/report-apples-market-share-of-pcs-over-1000-hits-66/
Apple Dominates $1,000+ Retail Computer Sales
Macworld UK's Jonny Evans reports:
Apple holds two-thirds of the retail market for computers costing $1,000 or more, NPD figures claim.
The research reveals Apple dominates the market for premium computers in the US, though it only holds 14 per cent of the market for computers costing less than $1,000, eWeek reports....
Mac desktop sales are up 45 per cent - meanwhile the overall market for desktop sales is down 20 per cent, while the market for Windows desktops contracted 25 per cent.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?newsid=21373
Firefox 3 On Track To Be Speediest Browser
Lifefhacker reports:
Now that Mozilla's locked down Firefox 3's final feature set with Friday's push of release candidate 1, it's official: while Firefox 3 boasts some great new features like a smart address bar and better bookmarks manager, the best reason to upgrade will be for the performance improvements. Firefox 3 is noticeably faster and more stable than Firefox 2 to the casual user and Mozilla engineers have numbers that show it will be the fastest browser on the market.
For the full report visit here:
http://lifehacker.com/391547/firefox-3-on-track-to-be-speediest-browser
Hon Hai To Enter Contract Notebook PC Business -Report
Reuters reports:
Taiwan's top electronics maker, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., will soon enter the notebook contract manufacturing business, looking to take a piece of the fast-growing sector, local media reported on Monday.
Hon Hai will join the business next year, the Commercial Times quoted company chairman Terry Gou as saying, putting it in direct competition with local players such as Quanta Computer and Compal Electronics, the world's two largest contract laptop makers.
Hon Hai counts Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Nokia as major clients....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSTP32392020080519
Apple Goes To War (This Time Not With Microsoft)
Gizmodo reports:
When Apple purchased chip manufacturer P.A. Semi, the Department of Defense was worried. Why? P.A. Semi manufactures chips for ten different military systems, and has $100 million in deals with the DoD over the next four years. And the DoD never expected Apple to keep supporting the sweet, deadly chips.
But they were wrong.....
For the full report visit here:
http://gizmodo.com/391486/apple-goes-to-war-this-time-not-with-microsoft
Ars Technica acquired by Condé Nast
Ars Technica's Editor-in-Chief Ken Fisher reports:
In less than a month, Ars Technica will be 10 years old. In 10 years time we've accomplished much, but uncovered far more work we want to do. For the past six months, we've been obsessed internally with the question of how to get Ars Technica into the fast lane, to grow our staff, coverage, and community at an even greater clip.
It is with much pride and pleasure that I announce that Ars Technica has been acquired by Condé Nast. Ars Technica will now grow with the tools and resources of Condé Nast's WIRED Digital unit....
Ars Technica will remain an independent publication, with the same editorial leadership in place. I will remain the Editor-in-Chief, and Jon, Eric, and the rest of the editorial team is staying on board, too.
You can check it out at:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080519-ars-technica-acquired-by-conde-nast-the-low-down.html
Palm Likens Self To Apple, Sees Os In 2009
Electronista reports:
Palm considers itself to have strengths associated with Apple, the company's chief financial officer Andy Brown said this afternoon at JPMorgan's yearly technology conference. The manager notes explains that Palm, like Apple, is one of the few companies to design both its phones and the operating system underneath, allowing the Centro maker to design one with the other in mind.....
The executive also drew attention to recent hires of former Apple employees as a sign of Palm's reorganization, including former iPod chief Jon Rubinstein as well as controversial chief financial officer Fred Anderson, who has been influential on the "operational side" of the company by improving its finances.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/05/19/palm.at.jpmorgan.2008/
My First iMac
Low End Mac's Carl Nygren says:
My Macintosh experience begins in 2003. My school had two Bondi blue iMacs, and these things were always unplugged. I asked my teacher why these computers weren't in use.
He said, "Because no one knows how to use a Macintosh." I convinced him to plug one of them in, and I turned it on.
From that moment, I have been completely in love with the GUI of Mac OS. It was so easy to use and had tons of cool features.
A few years passed. In June 2007, I was lucky enough to find an iMac, just like the one I played with at school, in a dumpster. I saved the poor thing from certain death, and it became my first Mac.
That iMac made me realize how great Apple's products are - and how they are so easy to learn.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://lowendmac.com/first/08mfm/nygren-my-first-imac.html
Best of Both Worlds: OS X and Windows
Macworld's Rob Griffiths reports:
By now, you sure know that—thanks to Intel chips in Macs and software such as Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion, you can run Windows software on your Mac.
But you may not know the answers to a bunch of other related questions: Why would you want to put Windows on your Mac in the first place? Which Windows programs are compelling and unique enough to justify the hassle of putting Windows on your Mac? Can you really incorporate those programs smoothly into your Mac workflow, or will they always feel clunky? In other words, while putting Windows on your Mac might sound great in theory, how does it all work out in reality?
For some answers to those questions, we offer this series.....
You can check it out at:
http://www.macworld.com/article/133513/2008/05/bothworlds.html
Medem Collaborates with Google to Connect Patients with Doctors Online Medem Provides Integrated Service for Users at the Launch of Google Health
[Press Release]
iHealth, an online suite of medical practice web sites and secure patient email services provided by Medem, is now integrated with Google Health, a new product that allows users to store, organize and manage their medical records and personal health information online. Medem is a healthcare IT company founded by leading medical societies, including the American Medical Association (AMA).
The iHealth collaboration with Google allows Google Health users to share information in their Google Health profile with doctors using the iHealth web product. This in turn helps keep doctors up-to-date on current medical conditions and medications. Physicians who offer the iHealth service to their patients will be listed in the Google Health "Find a Doctor" feature as integrated with Google Health.
"Improving communication and strengthening the patient-physician bond is a key goal for Medem and its participating medical societies," explained Robert Musacchio, PhD, chairman of the board for Medem and senior vice president, Publishing and Business Services for the AMA. "The collaboration between Google and Medem to better connect patients and physicians online is an important step in furthering this goal."
A recent Harris Interactive/Wall Street Journal survey confirms that patients prefer physician practices with an online presence, finding that 77% of patients want to schedule appointments online, and 75% want to email their physician's practice. Medem's collaboration with Google Health will help patients identify and select physicians who are iHealth users and offer these and other important medical services online.
"Our objective at Medem is to provide a suite of online services for physician practices that help them improve patient communication, reduce phone calls, enhance marketing and reduce liability," noted Medem CEO, Edward Fotsch, MD. "The integration between Google Health and practices that offer iHealth may help millions of consumers identify, select and reward practices who have quality web sites and offer a higher level of patient connectivity and service."
The iHealth service is promoted by both medical societies and liability carriers; some liability carriers have even begun offering discounts on premiums to physicians who use the service. In addition to a customizable practice web site and secure patient email for appointment requests, prescription renewal and lab results, iHealth also offers a transportable and interactive personal health record ("PHR") and the ability for practices to include YouTube-hosted videos of physicians introducing their practices or providing patient education online. The iHealth service is available for physicians via:
http://www.medem.com
The Mac Night Owl: Just Another Mac Hardware Reliability Rant
When I recently read the results of the reliability survey from readers of Consumer Reports, I had to wonder why Apple was dead last on the list among notebooks, with a rating of 23. While this was not statistically significant compared to the 20 rating granted Lenovo, it seems to portend a potential trouble spot for Apple.
Here's the link to the story:
http://macnightowl.com/2008/05/just-another-mac-hardware-reliability-rant/
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