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Do you like the new sticker from Defective by Design?
The campaign to free the digital world from Digital Restrictions Management just got a new sticker. The old one is on my laptop’s screen represents the famous iPod silhouettes with white wires acting as shackles. It was a simple and … Continue reading
Beyond removing GNU software from mobile stores
Last week the Free Software Foundation asked Apple to either remove the game GNU Go from the iTunes App Store or change the terms of service on it. Apple chose to simply remove GNU Go from the store and the … Continue reading
Six comments worth reading about iPad
Saturday morning is the best day to read more in depth analysis. I collected six articles that amused me, largely from the HBR blogs (one of the best source of food for thoughts, IMHO). If you, like me, are fascinated … Continue reading
iPad DRM endangers our rights
The Free Software Foundation guys are ready to remind us the real threat that iPad furthers: The iPad’s unprecedented use of DRM to control all capabilities of a general purpose computer is a dangerous step backward for computing and for … Continue reading
How to sync Mac OS with Funambol (part 3)
I noticed that my posts about using Funambol on Mac part I and part II are two of the most viewed posts on my blog, so I decided to update them with a new tutorial using the official Funambol Mac … Continue reading
Why that thing on Nexus One?
I can’t get my head around one feature of Google’s superphone: why did they put that scroll-click-button at the bottom of the phone? Shouldn’t the touch screen be enough to use the phone? Besides, being so close to the bottom … Continue reading
How to avoid frustrations with BlackBerry and Mac
Just don’t buy that combo: Mac and BlackBerry are two very closed environments, they don’t want to be interoperable, they hate each other and their customers. Not that I would make such mistake, never. But I have friends that do … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, blackberry, data, fail, freedom, interoperability, mac, mobile, windows
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Will Nokia become FLOSS best friend?
Google’s power is making more people concerned that their motto ‘do no evil’ is not reassuring enough. Fabrizio Capobianco’s blog post summarizes the concerns of the Winston Smith Project. Google is scary because it controls the access point to the … Continue reading
How Apple will dramatically increase revenues
My architecture professors repeated ad infinitum that an image is worth a thousand words. Following is a pictures that clearly shows how Apple will dramatically increase its revenues in the next year: It’s not (only) the cool design or the … Continue reading
Posted in business, eng
Tagged apple, disruption, innovation, marketing, revenues, strategy
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Mac OS X vs GNU: my personal summary (3/3)
After two days bashing Apple, here is the good stuff as promised. iWorks is good stuff. Keynote is simply amazing: everything is where it should be, the templates are gorgeous, animations are fluid, automatic aligning of pasted items is superb. … Continue reading