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The PS3 hasn't been doing well. It has been getting thrashed by the Xbox 360 and the Wii. To add insult to injury, even the PS2 has outsold it -- and it's obsolete. It now looks like Sony is executing a comeback plan, and that the PS3 may be looking interesting again. The Microsoft patent thing tha...
Last week was busy: Microsoft supposedly threatened open source with patent infringement, and it supposedly said Linux was dead. If that didn't piss off enough people, Engadget falsely reported delays for Leopard and the iPhone, trashing Apple's stock, and if there was anyone in tech not pissed off...
Looking back at last week, I had a lot to choose from, but the two things that I thought were the most interesting were Sony's dropping the PSP price to a very attractive $169, and the resignation of PC World's editor in chief over a throwaway Apple piece. The first item got me thinking about why th...
I've been spending a lot of time talking to folks who want to try the Dell Linux solution. I'm getting the sense that we have all been looking at Linux on the desktop wrong, and that products like Linspire are simply wrongheaded. Speaking of wrongheaded, last week, Research In Motion may have actual...
Last week was painful to watch. Don Imus made a statement that is common -- but inappropriate coming from an old white man -- and got shot for it, repeatedly, and is now off the air. This dovetailed with a now broad effort to create a code of conduct for the Web somewhat similar to what the broadcas...
Sometimes it really is about competition and changing the game. In the business space, victory in the race to be the most green has been awarded to one company, while another -- with Al Gore on the board -- continues to come in last. Ever since Apple launched the iPod, companies have been trying to ...
Last week, there were three events worth talking about, but I'll mention one of them only in passing. The first was the entry of the Xbox Elite into the market, positioned against Sony. It is almost a great product -- and for new buyers, it may be good enough -- but Microsoft could have hit a home r...
Last week Apple TV launched, and it appears Apple is following a similar script to what made the iPod a success -- but will it work this time? With the U.S. primaries coming up, and the incredibly well done remake of the famous 1984 Apple Ad playing a big role, I thought it would be good to remind y...
I'm spending some time thinking about missed and anticipated opportunities this week. In looking at Windows Server, I've become convinced that it is the wrong product for the Unix displacement market. In fact, in my head, it really always has been -- I just don't talk about servers much, so it doesn...
Don't you get a sense that we are on the edge of some big changes? Whether it is the PC market, the consumer electronics market, the server market -- anyone notice Sun is actually getting stronger? -- the network market, or the world in general, we seem to be seeing a lot of change all of a sudden.
There are two guilty pleasures I've developed of late. One is reading "Mini-Microsoft," which is an unauthorized blog by a Microsoft employee that probably does more to provide a glimpse inside the company and humanize it than anything the firm is officially doing. The other is "The Secret Diary of...
The technology world will be changing a lot this year, and I figured this would be a good week to talk about some of the changes going on at a few of the major PC vendors that will make the next few months -- and particularly the second half of the year -- more interesting. Right now, HP is the post...
3GSM, the big cell phone show, just wrapped up in Barcelona, Spain, and there were a number of big announcements. We've already seen LG's Prada phone, which launched this month, take aim at the iPhone. At this show, we saw two others -- both of which are capable of doing more that the iPhone does ...
Unless you were sleeping last week, you saw Bill Gates get really upset when asked about the Mac vs. PC campaign that Apple is putting on. I'm not sure it is wise to piss off someone like Bill personally in this way, and the campaign does seem to over-stereotype both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. In a...
It looks like 2007 is really starting out to be an incredible year for change. Last week was no exception, and with the launch of the new iPod based on the iPhone design followed by at least one potential iPhone-killer product later in the week, this trend will probably continue. We'll talk about mo...
As Vista launches, I'm in New York thinking back to 1995 when I was attending the Windows 95 launch and imagining what could have been. 1995 was an amazing year. From day one, people were excited about Windows. I remember meeting with Apple and suggesting it really needed to step up its game -- only...
Apple released its financials last week, and 2006 was a very, very good year for the company. However, its forecast suggests that 2007 may be starting out as one of Apple's worst years this decade. Vista is now within two weeks of launching. I've been using it for some weeks now, and there are some...
Macworld vs. CES was a huge mismatch; even if you took Microsoft out of the mix, this was more like an ant against a dragon than even Jack against a giant, and -- drum roll, please -- the ant won. By the end of Steve Jobs' keynote at Macworld, the media had lost interest in CES, and reporters focus...
Yesterday, Bill Gates was supposed to give the best keynote talk in his history, but given I write this column the week before it is published I have no idea whether he actually delivered the goods. Steve Jobs doesn't do his thing until after the column publishes and most of you are still in the dar...
For this last column of 2006, I thought it would be interesting to look ahead to 2007 and explore the battles that are to come. The three big ones are the Battle for the Digital Home, the Battle for your Pocket, and the Battle for Your Lap. The fighters include Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, HP, Dell, G...
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