Oct 30, 2004 | Apple, audio
The iPod costs three or four hundred dollars, and completely dominates a rapidly growing market – currently claiming an 82% market share. The market for portable music players using hard drives for storage, like the iPod, will grow five-fold this year. Even if...
Sep 1, 2004 | Apple, audio, Microsoft
Today’s quiz: I’ll describe a familiar scenario. You decide if it’s ancient history or current news. Apple sells devices manufactured by Apple, running software designed by Apple, sold in a store that belongs to Apple. Nobody else is allowed to use...
May 21, 2004 | Apple, business
It’s well-known that Gateway has been struggling to stay alive. Gateway has lost money in 13 of the last 14 quarters, it has closed all its retail stores, it has cut its workforce from 24,600 to 7400 employees, and it has stopped manufacturing its own computer...
May 20, 2004 | Apple, audio, video
A year ago I speculated that Apple would start to shift its emphasis away from the computer business and into consumer electronics. (Click here and scroll down to May 17, 2003.) Apple announced this week that it will split its product development into two parts,...
Mar 30, 2004 | Adobe, Apple
Apple fans are increasingly hard-pressed to justify clinging to a product with an insignificant, dwindling market share. The conventional wisdom is that Apple computers have some relevance in the world of graphics and publishing, for various reasons depending on...
