Posts from — September 2011

Daniel Eran Dilger

AMD, which became a significant component vendor to Apple when it acquired graphics chipmaker ATI, has claimed ownership of the S3 graphics patents that prompted HTC to buy S3 in order to bring patent litigation against Apple.
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Daniel Eran Dilger

Android advocates seem confident that Amazon’s low cost new Kindle Fire will finally breathe some life into the Android tablet market, giving Google a boost after an embarrassing year of tablet failures. They’re wrong, here’s why.
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Daniel Eran Dilger

Oracle’s comments in its infringement lawsuit against Google’s Android platform has revealed that the company is seeking not just royalties, but a legal order stopping the distribution of Android entirely.
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Daniel Eran Dilger

In its first significant update, Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform is introducing a new layer of app version complexity for developers and users that offers a glimpse of how both it and Windows 8 will differ from Apple’s existing iOS and Mac App Stores.
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Gene Steinberg of the Tech Night Owl invited me to talk about Windows 8 in a radio broadcast featuring CNET’s Seth Rosenblatt and Macworld’s Lex Friedman.

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The episode is available here: September 17, 2011 — Daniel Eran Dilger, Seth Rosenblatt and Lex Friedman

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Daniel Eran Dilger

While eager to demonstrate next year’s Windows 8, Microsoft has been reticent to make any promises about a tablet friendly new version of Office sporting the new Metro look, a clear departure from Apple’s strategy of presenting the original iPad with a suite of new iWork apps, but only after both were finished and ready to sell.
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Daniel Eran Dilger

New Metro-style apps designed to run on Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows 8 for tablets will copy Apple’s App Store business model of charging a 30 percent fee from developers, allowing the potential for Microsoft to regain control over software in segments it has lost to Apple’s iTunes and Google search.
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Daniel Eran Dilger

Microsoft is still a year (and ahem) away from bringing Windows 8 and its new Metro UI to market, but Apple has already beaten the company in releasing a hardware accelerated, animated web browser. It’s called Safari 5.
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Daniel Eran Dilger

Gadget blogs are in a lather to photograph every piece of new prototype hardware seen running “early beta” builds of Windows 8, thinking that the completely new Metro-fied release might dramatically shake up the tablet market. They’re wrong, here’s why.
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Daniel Eran Dilger

Handing out free tablets was the least Microsoft could do after years of leading its mobile developers down dead ends with Tablet PC, Windows Mobile, Windows Vista, Slate PC and Windows Phone 7. Still, will $500 worth of hardware in the hands of mobile developers forestal the death of Windows any better than it preserved webOS or Android 3.0 Honeycomb?
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