TheMacAdvocate

The Clock app in the Android 1.5 OS, as featured in the HTC Eris, is an outright theft of the iPhone UI for the same app.

This Time It’s Personal Steve Jobs was not leading Apple when the company lost the infamous “Look and Feel” lawsuit waged against Microsoft. Based on the existence of an ill-advised licensing agreement struck by then-CEO John Sculley, the courts ostensibly  gift-wrapped the Macintosh UI for Microsoft to pillage. When you listen to Jobs talk about [...]

Here’s a hint: you leave it on the doorstep, light it on fire and ring the doorbell. Dragon Dictation is perhaps one of the coolest apps on the iPhone. For those not familiar, Dictation is an app that displays a single “record” button when launched. You then speak into your iPhone, and your audio is [...]

/cue Debussey, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune HTC, upstart mobile phone maker saunters along a beautiful forest path, oblivious to the exquisitely-crafted “No Trespassing” signs. Sun is streaming through the trees as the company approaches a glittering spring. They stoop and drink deeply, savoring the delicious, refreshing water. /cue shotgun pump “Say…you got a purty [...]

In our last installment, I talked about some players in the consumer electronics industry that were left sucking seawater in the wake of the latest launch by the USS Cupertino. Not everyone in business is hating life, however. Let’s see who stands to gain the most from the introduction of the iPad. AT&T Sigh. Multiple [...]

And by “well”, I mean profitably. All of M$’s profitable business unit products go back over 10 years.

After over a year of analyst frothing, Apple announced the next step in its transformation of consumer electronics devices. The 2 predictable results of Apple’s announcement – the immediate sell-off of Apple stock and the collective feigned disinterest of Windoz apologists across the country – belies the truth. This is a device that will change [...]

Like any good fanboy, I followed the Apple event blogs as SJ and his band of merry men trotted out the iPad and its capabilities.  The best advice I’ve heard on the internets about the device is “don’t knock it till you’ve held it”.  The worst  - well – just hit up any of the [...]

Is there any stopping this wagon train? As the country slowly crawls out of an economic slump, Apple continues to kick the crap out of estimates in every category of profitability. Unit sales of Macs and iPhones both sold at record levels, with the revamp of the iMacs boosting units above the million mark for [...]

Over the past couple of months, I’ve come to sympathize with AT&T’s infrastructure plight. After trying and trying to accomodate iPhone users, their service is still compromised by the greedy 3% of users who hog 40% of their bandwidth. This isn’t a Marxist state, so people should pay for what they use, right? Tell you [...]