Posts from — September 2007

Daniel Eran Dilger
Scott Woolley of Forbes tried his best to paint Apple TV as a colossal failure, but his article is based on supposition and false comparisons, and demonstrates he doesn’t know much about the video distribution industry he writes about.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
There is obvious interest in iPhone development, and users of the device have good reason to demand a vibrant software ecosystem growing up around it. There are a lot of applications Apple doesn’t have the time or inclination to deliver, but which would greatly increase the value of the phone and subsequently expand sales. Apple needs third party help.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
While I’m no huge fan of the “all singing, all dancing” mobiles that announce every incoming call by belting out a section of a song–particularly since they tend to use songs that I don’t want stuck in my mind for the next hour–ringtones are extremely popular and a big money business, so they’re not going away anytime soon.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
“Six Reasons Why Apple May Never Open the iPhone” outlined the rationale behind the strategy driving Apple’s software plans for its new mobile. At the same time, it’s important to take a reasonable appraisal of the iPhone’s supposedly closed nature. While Apple is unlikely to open up the iPhone in the same sense as the Mac anytime soon, it is already an open platform in ways that matter.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Silicon Alley Insider’s Dan Frommer says Apple’s announcement of reaching its million mark goal in iPhone sales three weeks early is actually bad news for Apple and is convolutedly “below plan.” He also says the announcement only props up the speculative conjecture by Scott Moritz of the Street that Apple’s iPhones sales are somehow woefully below expectations. They’re wrong, here’s why.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
The history of the Office Wars provides interesting context for Apple’s software strategy with the iPhone today. While third party software development offers all kinds of tantalizing potential for the new mobile, there are a half dozen reasons why Apple may not ever deliver the iPhone fully open to third party development, following the model of gaming consoles.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Microsoft’s Office monopoly gives the company more revenues and delivers nearly as much profit as its Windows software. How did it gain such a powerful position in productivity applications? The history of Office is rooted in decisions Apple made in the 80s with the Lisa and Macintosh, and also has an interesting correlation to Apple’s iPhone strategy today.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Microsoft’s Office suite represents the third pillar of the company’s core trio of monopolies, next to its Windows desktop software and its Windows Server products. Here’s why the company’s monopoly position in productivity applications is holding back innovation and why the mainstream tech media has absolutely nothing to say anything about it.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
After rumor site Gizmodo posted leaked pics of Apple’s third generation Nano, it was instantly dubbed the “Fat Nano.” Once being asked to take the pics down, Gizmodo posted a photoshopped rendition that made it appear even fatter, and the site labeled its own artwork of the Nano as being “crap.”

Fortunately, the new Nano is as sharp as one might expect from Apple. It comes in metallic colors that look less like teenage toys are more like the typical finish on an exotic car.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
While introducing the iPod Touch as a version of the iPhone lacking cellular mobile features, Bluetooth, and an integrated camera, Apple also set a new price on the 8 GB iPhone and discontinued the 4 GB model. That move angered some buyers, who felt the $200 price cut after just ten weeks on the market was too much, too soon.
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