Archive for July 16th, 2010
“Just got done taking a rare tour of Apple’s testing facilities / labs. Post coming in a bit, though we weren’t allo…
“Just got done taking a rare tour of Apple’s testing facilities / labs. Post coming in a bit, though we weren’t allowed to take pics!” — Engadget editor Joshua Topolsky
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CHART OF THE DAY: Look Out Windows, The Enterprise Is Warming Up To The Mac
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One of the threats to Microsoft’s Windows dominance is the idea that companies will increasingly give employees the option to buy Macs — especially now that more business software is web-based and will work just as well on a Mac as on a Windows PC.
Apple obviously hasn’t taken over the enterprise. But the enterprise is warming up to the Mac, according to a survey of IT managers conducted by research firm ITIC and Sunbelt Software.
Some 79% of respondents said their firms were likely to allow more users to deploy Macs as their enterprise desktops in 2010-2011, versus 19% who said they were not likely to allow more Macs.
Why did they say no? Click here to see those answers and more charts from this report.
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Is Doug Kass Changing His July 1 Bottom Call?
Doug Kass called the bottom on July 1 via Twitter. It was looking like another legendary call until today happened:
But in fact, Kass was already backtracking in a column this morning:
It still remains my view that the S&P 500 has made its low for the year, but, from my perch, the developing downbeat economic conditions will trump the nonrecurring events at BP, Goldman Sachs and Apple, and, in the days ahead, stocks will erase some of the recent breathtaking gains.
Prior to the recent soft patch, most economists and strategists expected a self-sustaining economic recovery that might average at least 3% GDP growth. Now, many of those same economists and strategists are begrudgingly reducing their growth forecasts and taking the slippery slope by rationalizing their bullish S&P targets, and they are making a valuation case and/or identifying negative extremes in sentiment (whether it is in a growing bears/bull ratio, the absence of flows into domestic equity funds or in investor fervor/popularity associated with the fixed-income market) to do so.
Don’t miss: A Primer On Why Everyone Thinks The Economy Is Headed Into The Toilet Again –>
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Motorola Isn’t Bricking The Droid X, But You Still Can’t Install A Better OS On It (MOTO, GOOG, VZ)
Yesterday, we reacted — angrily — to a report that Motorola was “bricking” the Droid X if it detected unauthorized software.
The story stated that users who loaded an unapproved version of Android — such as the recently released Froyo — would have their phones deactivated in such a way that they would have to return them to Motorola for a hardware fix.
MobileCrunch, which ran the original story, appears to be sticking to its guns, but reports from Engadget and elsewhere, as well as statements from Motorola, suggest that this was half wrong. Your Droid X will be kicked into a recovery mode if you load an unapproved OS, but you won’t need a hardware fix; you can simply reload Motorola’s version of Android.
Bricking the phone entirely would be an unprecedented bit of nastiness on Motorola’s part, and we apologize for jumping the gun.
Unfortunately, for the consumer, this situation isn’t any different. Some other phones are protected in the same manner as the Droid X, but, unlike the protections on most Android phones, no one has found a way around this. So if you buy Motorola’s awesome piece of hardware, you’re still going to be stuck with Motorola’s widely panned piece of software.
We still really want the former, and really don’t want the latter.
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- Droid X Review: A Showstopping Phone Mutilated By Ugly, Poorly-Done Software
- Hey, Look, It’s The Line To Buy A Droid X!
1.7% Of iPhone 4s Have Been Returned So Far (AAPL)
Steve Jobs just announced that 1.7% of iPhone 4s purchased so far have been returned.
By way of comparison, he said the iPhone 3GS has a return rate of 6%.
It’s hard to know how much that comparison really means, since all iPhone 4s are still within the return period, but clearly, there isn’t a stampede to get rid of the new gadget. If that weren’t already obvious.
Follow Dan Frommer’s live analysis of Steve Jobs’s press conference here.
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