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Mike Daisey: Reports of my Death have been Greatly Exaggerated

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

mikedaisey.blogspot.com - By Mike Daisey - Mar. 20 (Opinion) - In the last forty-eight hours I have been equated with Stephen Glass, James Frey, and Greg Mortenson. Given the tenor of the condemnation, you would think I had concocted an elaborate, fanciful universe filled with furnaces in which babies are burned to make iPhone components, or that I never went to China, never stood outside the gates of Foxconn, never pretended to be a businessman to get inside of factories, never spoke to any workers. Especially galling is how many are gleefully eager to dance on my grave expressly so they can return to ignoring everything about the circumstances under which their devices are made. Given the tone, you would think I had fabulated an elaborate hoax, filled with astonishing horrors that no one had ever seen before. Except that we all know that isn’t true.

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Retraction

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

This American Life - By Ira Glass - Mar. 18 (Opinion) - Regrettably, we have discovered that one of our most popular episodes was partially fabricated. This week, we devote the entire hour to detailing the errors in "Mr. Daisey Goes to the Apple Factory," Mike Daisey’s story about visiting Foxconn, an Apple supplier factory in China.

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With iTunes In The Cloud, Apple Under-Promises And Over-Delivers

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

TechCrunch - By MG Siegler - Aug. 30 (Opinion) - With iTunes In The Cloud, Apple Under-Promises And Over-Delivers

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Telcos could be the key to Twitter’s revenue model

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

GigaOM - By Sam Ramji - Jun. 26 (Interview) - At WWDC this year Apple and Twitter announced a new partnership to bring Twitter to iOS devices. While this is impressive, the total number of new iOS users is dwarfed by the number of people who use feature phones worldwide. So how will services like Twitter bridge this opportunity gap?

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Google's Eric Schmidt: Smartphones 'Remember Everything'

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Catharine Smith - May. 15 (Interview) - Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt sat down on Sunday with CNN's Fareed Zakaria for a segment on "Fareed Zakaria GPS" to talk innovation, Android tablets versus Apple's iPad, and the future of technology. Schmidt also commented on the data that users' phones store and how that data can serve the user. Said Schmidt: Today, you're phone knows who you are, where you are, where -- where you're going, to some degree, because it can see your path. And with that and with your permission, it's possible for software and software developers to predict where you're going to go, to suggest people you should meet, to suggest activities and so forth. So ultimately what happens is the mobile phone does what it does best, which is remember everything and make suggestions. And then you can be just a better human and have a good time.

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Flipboard: Threat and Opportunity

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Monday Note - By Frédéric Filloux - Apr. 17 (Opinion) - Every media company should be afraid of Flipboard. The Palo Alto startup epitomizes the best and the worst of the internet. The best is for the user. The worst is for the content providers that feed its stunning expansion without getting a dime in return. According to Kara Swisher ‘s AllThingsD, nine months after launching its first version, Flipboard’s new $50m financing round gives the company a €200m valuation. Many newspapers or magazines carrying hundreds of journalists can’t get a €200m valuation today. Last year, for the Groupe Le Monde, an investment bank memo set a valuation of approximately $100m (net of its $86m debt at the time, to be precise). That was for a 644 journalists multimedia company – OK, one that had been badly managed for years. Still, Flipboard is a 32-people startup with a single product and no revenue yet. So, what’s the fuss about? The answer is a simple one: Flipboard is THE product any big media company or, better, any group of media companies should have invented. It’s an iPad application (soon to be supplemented by an iPhone version), it allows readers to aggregate any sources they want: social medias such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr or any combination of RSS feeds. No need to remember the feed’s often-complicated URL, Flipboard searches it for you and puts the result in a neat eBook-like layout.

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The Full-On Assault On Cable Is Underway

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

TechCrunch - By MG Siegler - Aug. 30 (Opinion) - The Full-On Assault On Cable Is Underway

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Apple iPhone 4: Hands-on review

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Android Fanboys Have Arrived. And That’s A Good Thing

Sun, 30 May 2010 15:55:03 -0700

TechCrunch - May. 30 (Opinion) - By now, just about everyone on the planet has heard the term “Apple Fanboy.” If you’ve ever said anything good about an Apple product, you’ve likely been called one. But a new class of fanboy has emerged

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The iPad Luddites

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Rough Type - By Nicholas Carr - Apr. 07 (Opinion) - Is it possible for a Geek God to also be a Luddite? That was the question that popped into my head as I read Cory Doctorow's impassioned anti-iPad diatribe at Boing Boing. The device that Apple calls "magical" and "revolutionary" is, to Doctorow, a counterrevolutionary contraption conjured up through the black magic of the wizards at One Infinite Loop. The locked-down, self-contained design of the iPad - nary a USB port in sight, and don't even think about loading an app that hasn't been blessed by Apple - manifests "a palpable contempt for the owner," writes Doctorow.

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Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either)

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Boing Boing - By Cory Doctorow - Apr. 03 (Opinion) - If you want to live in the creative universe where anyone with a cool idea can make it and give it to you to run on your hardware, the iPad isn't for you.If you want to write code for a platform where the only thing that determines whether you're going to succeed with it is whether your audience loves it, the iPad isn't for you.

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The Unauthorized TechCrunch iPad Review

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

TechCrunch - By Michael Arrington - Apr. 02 (Opinion) - For some strange reason we weren’t invited to test drive the iPad early. But easy-to-get stories are never fun anyway. And there has always been another way to spend time with the iPad other than a freebie loaner from apple – the third party developers. Scores of developers have had iPad’s for weeks now. They’ve had to sign non-disclosure agreements, and have the iPad locked in a separate room that random employees couldn’t access. And even that wasn’t enough. The iPads are literally chained to the desk with steel cable and a lock. Apple comes by the office with a suitcase, installs the iPad in a bolted case, chains it to the desk and locks it there. And they they do occasional surprise visits just to make sure it’s still there.

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The New Paradigm of Advantage

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Harvard Business Review - By Umair Haque - Mar. 10 (Opinion) - the past of advantage was extractive and protective. the future of advantage, on the other hand, is allocative and creative.....an economy built on extractive and protective advantage is a giant, endless ponziconomy.

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Apple Launches Text-sharing Device, the CoTex

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Andy Borowitz - Jan. 28 (Comedy News) - CUPERTINO (The Borowitz Report) - In the same week that it launched its much-touted iPad, Apple today introduced its latest game-changer to the tech marketplace, a text-sharing device called the CoTex. "There are a lot of texting devices out there that

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I Quit The iPhone

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TechCrunch - By Michael Arrington - Jul. 31 (Opinion) - What finally put me over the edge? It wasn’t the routinely dropped calls, something you can only truly understand once you have owned an iPhone (and which drove my friend Om Malik to bail). I’ve lived with that for two years. It’s not the lack of AT&T coverage at home. I’ve lived with that for two years, too. It certainly isn’t the lack of a physical keyboard, that has never bothered me. No, what finally put me over the edge is the Google Voice debacle.

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Daring Fireball: WWDC 2009 Predictions

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

daringfireball.net - By John Gruber - Jun. 07 (Comment) - Everything I wrote about last month in “The Next iPhone” still stands. I expect Apple to announce updated iPhones with significantly faster processors, twice the RAM, and twice the storage. I expected prices to remain the same as the current lineup: $199/299 for 16/32 GB, respectively. The video camera is going to be a major selling point.

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New iPhone Will Jumpstart Demand for Wireless Broadband

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

GigaOM - By Om Malik - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - this is the first time that a 3G connection on a non-computer device actually feels like a broadband connection. "This device is a true game-changer. Why? The immediacy of the data at your fingertips is huge. Imagine, looking up anything, anywhere," is how AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega told me in a chat earlier this year. In the U.S. especially, the iPhone is going to have a major impact, mostly because are a PC-centric society constantly search for web-like experiences. (So far, most of the carriers have made their money off 3G computer connections. I am wondering how the iPhone impacts (or not) 3G usage in Europe.)

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Steve Jobs' iTunes dance

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:16:58 -0800

Salon - By Cory Doctorow - Feb. 23 (Opinion) - In early February, Apple CEO Steve Jobs published an extraordinary memo about the music industry, iTunes and DRM (digital rights management), the technology used to lock iTunes Store music to Apple's iPod and iTunes Player. In the memo, Jobs said that "DRMs haven't worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy," and offered to embrace a DRM-free music-sales environment "in a heartbeat," if only the big four music companies would let him. I doubt Jobs' sincerity. I suspect he likes DRM because it creates an anti-competitive lock-in to Apple. I think he's trying to shift blame for the much-criticized DRM to the music industry, whose executives are twirling their mustaches and declaring DRM to be the only way forward for their industry.

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Apple Ushers in Era of the Fluid UI

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:04:06 -0800

GigaOM - By Om Malik - Jan. 18 (Opinion) - The big interface shift is part of the technological evolution. During the last century, the automobile business started out Model-T but then evolved to different models, each with a different look and feel and a different dashboard, the UI of that business. It has continued to evolve and become more dynamic as complexity of the box-on-four-wheels has increased.

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