TheMacAdvocate

Long time reader/first time poster.  Fellow “productivity porn” recovering addict. Sorry to hear about your run-in with Snow Leopard.  Almost more sorry to see the clicktards at Infoworld are using it as a way of equating it to Vista (sorry – no clickthrus for clicktards).  Two upgrades here – no problems.  But I’ve been where [...]

Apple responded to the FCC’s inquiry about the rejection of the Google Voice app, and posted the response on their website.  Most surprising to me: the “continued study” of the app (Apple says it has not rejected it) had nothing to do with AT&T. Apple is acting alone and has not consulted with AT&T about [...]

Cult of Mac has an interview with Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge, a site devoted to the data center industry.  Rich speculates that Apple’s reportedly 500‚000 square-foot facility (which would make it one of the largest in the world) suggests a “cloud computing” scale. Silly rabbit.  Obviously SJ reads TMA and is looking to [...]

According to a Game Informer survey, over 50% of XBox 360 owners have had catastrophic failure of their consoles. Fifty.  Imagine you were about to buy a TV from a manufacturer who you found had half their TVs go bad while under warranty. Yet according to the same survey, people play their 360s slightly longer [...]

On Tuesday‚ Uncle Walt revealed Microsoft’s straightforward upgrade chart for current Windows users. /cracks up OK‚ I tried.  How bad is it?  Even Ed “Go” Bott (“Windows is like the K-Mart OS X”) thinks that the only logical explanation is that someone secretly working for Apple in M$’s ranks is releasing this stuff. And “Custom [...]

Microsoft’s retail stores: derivative doesn’t begin to describe it.

Pity poor Microsoft.  Coming off the heels of Apple’s record-setting quarter, Redmond…well… Got absolutely annihilated. Microsoft whiffed on analysts’ predictions to the tune of one and a quarter billion dollars.  The traditional sinks – online services and the Entertainment and Devices group (Xbox 360, Zune and mobile phone software) – continued their crimson streak in [...]

So AAPL crushed the Street estimates yet again (yawn) and analysts, always quick to hop on a good thing once it’s happened, are bullish on the company for Q3.  Oddly, Apple’s third-quarter guidance of 34 percent gross margin and $1.18 – $1.23 in earnings per share was uncharacteristically optimistic, leaving analysts wondering whether Cupertino was [...]

It’s time for Apple to report on earnings yet again‚ kiddies.  And the tech analyst keystone cop routine continues.  The beat’s worst weatherman is continuing the “yeah‚ but” style of analysis they teach at Harvard.  The consensus from the Street has Apple reporting earnings at $1.16 per share and 10% YOY growth. Pffffffft. Apple will [...]

Because Ars Technica has an Apple section‚ I guess they have to have one for Microsoft too.  I find a good chuckle there most days‚ though I imagine the humor is unintentional.  Like this gem recounting how “a lawyer from Apple” allegedly called Microsoft to beg them to stop running their “Shitbox Laptop Hunters” ads. [...]