Tag Archives: Apple
Ultraviolet could actually work
Ultraviolet has been working steadily from concept to practice and it has had a number of problems, mostly around usability… something that its main competitor (Apple Fairplay) does not suffer from. Now though, it has reached an important point in its attempt to hit the big time and it is not the signing up of [...]
Steve Jobs – So long and thanks for all the fish
There is going to be a lot said about Steve Jobs in the coming days, but I would just say two things. 1. Jobsian – an approach to product development that was singularly successful and others aspire to. 2. Watch his 2005 Stanford commencement address and be inspired.
Evolution End
Last summer I blogged about the differing approaches that Apple and Google have taken with respect to the development of their respective phone (and now tablet) platforms. In the post, I postulated that iOS4 could be the last time that Apple enjoyed an advantage over Google Android, and that the multiple path development approach taken [...]
Content Protection in an Unmanaged World
Sometimes I see an article that has so spot on a set of messages, that you just have to draw attention to it… Andrew Glasspool, Founder and Managing Partner at the business and technology consultancy firm Farncombe. “There is the potential for a train smash when Connected TV has become mass-market and you try to [...]
IPTV World Forum Notes
Business Well IPTV World Forum 2011 has been through its first day and a few things have struck me. Firstly I did not go last year but I do go the year before that and there is a distinctly different buzz running around the floors – this year it is busy with the murmur of [...]
Competition in Digital Content
It seems that iTunes has seen a very successful 2010 but there are people who believe that 2011 could be a much tougher year. While much of the news lately has surrounded subscription internet movie and TV services the video on-demand market was up nearly 40% last year and is expected to keep growing. via [...]
Apple TV and Fairplay Blockage
Well Apple has given us that one more thing, the new improved Apple TV, However this has caused me to think about one of the less understood aspects of the Apple ecosystem… Fairplay – Apple’s DRM system. Well what caused me to think about this ‘almost’ hidden DRM? Well what Fairplay gives you is the [...]
Revolution of Evolution
There was once a time (once being even today in some product companies), when companies would spend two to three years on making a new product. That was the competitive environment back in the day. These days though products are developed in much less time than that, with new product being produced at least every [...]
Apple Spreading out of its’ Orchard?
There is some speculation based on the flimsiest of a job posting (Apple To Bring iPhone OS To New Gadgets) that Apple could be looking to expand beyond the iPad device, as that being a first step beyond the phone and handheld information device world – perhaps into the mainstream TV world. Apple have had [...]
Death of the Optical Drive – Apple Macbook Air
Ten years ago, Apple released the iMAC without the floppy drive. It was controversial but now there is not a new computer that actually comes with a built in floppy. Apple has just driven the envelope forward by leaving the Optical drive out of the package for the Apple Macbook Air. When will standard laptops [...]