Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Meghan Bartels interviews Maria Van Kerkhove about the continuing and emerging threats in the fifth year of a pandemic which most of the powers that be have long since disappeared from any discussion. And Crawford Kilian talks to Ziyad Al-Aly about the unconscionable lack of
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Writings of J. Todd Ring: Ditch Apple & Big Tech
Just a little rant here, for a change, but one with an important point: Man, Apple is such pure shite. The fanfare and mob hysteria is definitely undeserved. Yes, it is better than Microshite, but that’s like comparing yourself to a dung pile. Pretty low standard to beat. I foolishly
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Alan Freeman is duly appalled by Apple’s attempt to throw itself a pity party with the money it’s hoarding rather than paying in fair corporate taxes. And James Mackintosh reports on Jeroen Dijsselbloe…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Globe and Mail: Apple’s monthly instalment price plan for unlocked iPhones eludes Canada
Why can’t we have nice things like U.S.’s monthly instalment price plan for iPhones here in Canada? Article by Christine Dobby for The Globe and Mail Apple Inc. revealed a new way to buy its flagship device last week – the option to pay for unlocked models of its newest
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Apple’s i0S 8.3 Reveals More Diverse Emojis
Users have spoken and Apple has created! The Next Web recently reported that consumers requests were heard. Emoji’s on the i0S 8.3 will have different skin tones and further country flags. A little taste of what’s to come is below. photo taken from The Next Web -Rachel Spence, Law Clerk
Continue readingCarbon49 - Sustainability for Canadian businesses: The Greenest Companies Consistently Outperform Markets
Apple, BMW, LG, HP, Coca-Cola, and Walmart are among the 187 companies cited by non-profit Carbon Disclosure Project for doing the most to combat climate change. These green warriors also outperform the Bloomberg World Index. Five Canadian companies made this elite group. I find out how their stock prices compare to
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Tech on the Side: Apple numbers: languishing iPad sales a function of the phone subsidy model
The ability to make phone calls on a modern smartphone is now just one app among many. For most people it isn’t even close to the most used app with Facebook, YouTube, messaging, games, and the like dominating usage. And it is also an app with many competitors like Skype
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Tech on the Side: Apple numbers: languishing iPad sales a function ofthe phone subsidy model
The ability to make phone calls on a modern smartphone is now just one app among many. For most people it isn’t even close to the most used app with Facebook, YouTube, messaging, games, and the like dominating usage. And it is also an app with many com…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Tech on the Side: Apple numbers: languishing iPad sales a function ofthe phone subsidy model
The ability to make phone calls on a modern smartphone is now just one app among many. For most people it isn’t even close to the most used app with Facebook, YouTube, messaging, games, and the like dominating usage. And it is also an app with many competitors like Skype
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Tech on the Side: Amazon vs Apple
While Apple is a wildly profitable money printing machine that hoards its cash and returns billions to shareholders, Amazon makes no official profit. As Benedict Evans points out, this is just a sleight of hand for Amazon has numerous profitable busine…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Tech on the Side: Amazon vs Apple
While Apple is a wildly profitable money printing machine that hoards its cash and returns billions to shareholders, Amazon makes no official profit. As Benedict Evans points out, this is just a sleight of hand for Amazon has numerous profitable businesses, it is just that it reinvests every penny back
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Tech on the Side: Amazon vs Apple
While Apple is a wildly profitable money printing machine that hoards its cash and returns billions to shareholders, Amazon makes no official profit. As Benedict Evans points out, this is just a sleight of hand for Amazon has numerous profitable businesses, it is just that it reinvests every penny back
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Tech on the Side: Business Models vs Capabilities
One of the most fascinating aspect of following technology is not just the speed at which the technologies themselves change. It is that the shifts are so large and so fast that business models need to get changed on the fly. Many of the biggest battles in tech are not
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: Final Cut Pro X Certification
While my work keeps me very occupied I know that I need to further develop my skills beyond my daily tasks. In early January I worked through hours of training videos (thank you, FinalCutProX.net) and the official Apple Pro Training Series book and DVD-rom with lesson/media files. It took a
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Tech on the Side: Lessons from HDDVD vs Blu-ray
My first real foray into the world of following tech news came with the epic HDDVD vs Blu-ray fight. This was more than a little odd. At the time, I didn’t even have an HDTV, and had no intention of getting a next gen optical media player let alone a
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Tech on the Side: Apple’s tablet upgrade cycle problem
On this blog I like to cover the big issue facing our planet, issues dramatically affecting millions or billions of people: war, conflict, global warming, poverty, economics, rights and freedoms, etc. Okay, okay, sometimes I like to get bogged down in the personalities and gamesmanship of politics, but if I
Continue readingcmkl: Apple Store revisited – I’m back to being a fan
It’s now abundantly clear to me why the geniuses at the Apple store needed my computer to test my battery. I went back just after opening Friday morning (I would recommend that if you – like me – don’t like crowded stores in malls) for my appointment. Rideau in fact
Continue readingcmkl: Negative Apple Store experience
I just sent this to Apple’s customer service via their website feedback form.
Continue readingApple and the exploitation of Chinese labour
I have been an Apple fan since I got my first computer—Mac all the way. I cringe, therefore, when I encounter articles about the company and its exploitation of Chinese labour. So I really didn’t need to read this morning that Apple’s new iphone is being produced under illegal and
Continue readingEclectic Lip: The witless wisdom of Shai Agassi
Dunning-Kruger effect graphed by AddAttack on DeviantArt. LinkedIn has an “opinion leader” piece from Shai Agassi, founder of bankrupt car-battery-switcher Better Place, telling carmakers how they need to respond to Tesla’s success. Who better to give them advice than a guy who raised $850 million for an ignorant, impractical, impossible
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