Archive for the 'Apple' Category

Aug 08 2008

Mac OS X Approaches 8% Market Share

Published by Peter under Apple, Computers

A few years ago, while in business school, we wrote a paper on Apple’s growth and their opportunity to take their 3-4% market share and turn it into a double digit market share. A few years later (now), it seems they are getting there. The popularity of their Intel-based MacBook Pros and and MacBooks has really made their climb possible.

You can read more about this at ArsTechnica.

Mac OS X Market Share

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Jul 30 2008

Post from iPhone

Published by Peter under Apple, Computers, Internet, iPhone

As I sit here trying to fix this computer that has the buritos and XP Security Center, I figures I’d try this out.

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Jun 09 2008

New iPhone, finally!

Published by Peter under Apple

MacRumors.com : Worldwide Developer Conference 2008 Keynote Live Coverage

Finally, a “real” iPhone just got announced. The iPhone 3G. From the sounds of this phone and its 2.0 OS, I’d have to consider getting a phone like this. It’s thinner, has a black plastic back (no more shiny metal), and is 2.8x faster than its earlier phone for data, with data speeds nearing WiFi speeds.

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Jun 09 2008

Apple — of all companies, to use dirty HTML to resize images!

Published by Peter under Apple, Computers, Web Dev

I always find it funny that on http://store.apple.com, the image that says “We’ll be back soon”, when they are making changes to their store, is being resized via HTML and not natively the right size, so it always looks “dirty”… Right click that image and choose to “View Image”, and you’ll see how it’s SUPPOSED to look.

The way I have it in this blog is how they have it on their store page as of right now.

This is how it’s supposed to look:

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Apr 07 2008

Which Browser is fastest on the Mac?

Published by Peter under Apple, Computers, Software

This has to do with running JavaScript, which is pretty much on every single site you’ll visit these days. Well, I Google‘d for a site without JavaScript and found this.

It looks like running Firefox 3 Beta 5 is faster than Sarari. However, to get this to be the case, you have to be running it without extensions. Personally, I run Firefox BECAUSE OF its extensions. If you want the FASTEST Mac OS X browsing experience, then you’d have to run WebKit’s latest.

The following graph is courtesy of ArsTechnica.

Revised JavaScript benchmarking results for Firefox 3b5.

Firefox 3b5 vs Safari 3.1 Round 2: Disable Extensions

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