Has Apple just announced a product in advance?
“Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone users an improved traffic service in the next couple of years.”
Second Life is dead…
I’ve not checked back on Second Life for over 18 months. It burnt so bright for a six months, and now looks dead.
Mac vs. PC: A Hunch Rematch…
Hunch Blog | Blog Archive | Mac vs. PC: A Hunch Rematch.
Nobody drinks Coke? Linux maybe!
Automated Pricing…
Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
Seems to me that we can now see how bank automated traders can go so horribly wrong.
Mark Kermode on sport…
Watch this…
BBC – Mark Kermode’s film blog: Biker Boys
Here’s the thing, sport isn’t about the points. It’s about the art of the movement of a great goal mixed with the complexity of reaching success when you’re an organization with almost identical means as the others in the game.
Does that make sense?
For Jools…
Apple results…
Apple sold 3.76 million Macs during the quarter, a 28 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 18.65 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 113 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 9.02 million iPods during the quarter, representing a 17 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter. The Company also sold 4.69 million iPads during the quarter.
“With quarterly revenue growth of 83 percent and profit growth of 95 percent, we’re firing on all cylinders,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO
That’s a good business.
They do all this with over 40% margins!!! 40%!!!
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The pernicious influence of immigrants…
“Of course, immigrants have changed British culture in other ways, including by setting up businesses which out-competed the existing ones and put them out of business. Such behaviour should not be tolerated by the defenders of British culture and so the following businesses, founded by immigrants and their descendants, should be boycotted.”
Newsvine – The pernicious influence of immigrants in the UK.