Rogers, BCE vying for a bite of Apple’s iTV

Nice scoop for the Globe, suggesting Apple’s TV (if and when it’s released) may be directly tied to cable/IPTV operators: 

Canada’s largest telecommunications companies are squaring off in a fight about the future of television.

While the iTV product remains cloaked in secrecy, sources say Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple has approached Rogers and Bell as it actively pursues partnerships with Canadian carriers.

“They’re not closed to doing it with one [company] or doing it with two,” said one source who is familiar with the talks. “They’re looking for a partner. They’re looking for someone with wireless and broadband capabilities.”

Another source, also speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Rogers and Bell already have the product in their labs.

All three companies declined comment.

Everyone has their bullshit. You can simply decide whose you’re willing to tolerate.

Marco Arment, of Instapaper fame, outlining Apple, Google, and Facebook’s rhetoric.

Please read on for the juicy specifics, and choose who you’re comfortable playing with.

“How does the rest of my day look?” :-)

Sadly, I’ve tried using Siri on the bike ride home and she’s not terribly helpful. I’d expect sleigh ride wind to be even less forgiving than Queen St.

Today’s letter to Apple…

THE NEW ADDRESS BOOK IS A PIECE OF SHIT.

Why the fuck are the groups and addresses not visible at the same time. It’s such a royal and complete pain in the ass to manage anything because you have to click the stupid red bookmark thing at the top to swap between the content.

And every time I hit the plus button to add a new address it just adds a new group.

Of course, trying to delete the newly added “Untitled Group” so I could click the stupid red bookmark thing to add an address instead of a group just crashed the address book.

Piece. of. shit.

iBoard!

Samsung Cites Kubrick's '2001' Film as Prior Art Defense Against Apple's Injunction Request

Ha! Awesome.

This all raises the question: over the past two years, would you have gained more knowledge by reading Lyons, or by having your head up your own ass?
Rope-a-Dope, indeed, from MG Siegler. A fair response to Lyons’ foolishness and name calling, I’d say.

Apple’s just announced greater iPad revenue than Mac revenue for the last quarter.

That’s all Macs, portable and desktop, totalling 3% less dollar volume than just iPad. Remarkable.

More incredible still: that’s with a record breaking quarter for Mac sales.

With OSX Lion coming tomorrow, Apple looks to just keep on trucking.

More from Apple.

Source: macrumors.com

There was a whole class we took about things not to say, and what to say instead. One of my favorites was to resist the urge to say “That’s stupid” or “That wasn’t smart” and replace it with “That’s not recommended” - For example, you say “I took my iPod swimming and now it don’t work” I say “Ah, that’s not recommended” when I mean “That was really stupid”.
How to speak at the Apple store as excerpted from Adrien Chen’s Gawker article by Mark Liberman.

Volume vs Profit.

I know it’s nice and easy to boast about sales, but only a fool looks at volume over profit.

Steve Balmer, July 11, 2011:

But we’re driving hard with just in the last year alone 350 million — 350 million — new PCs sold. That might compare with numbers from other guys that are in the 20 million range. Now, 20 is too much, but 350, last time I checked, is a lot more than 20.

Dina Blass for Bloomberg, April 29, 2011:

Microsoft Corp’s Windows sales slumped last quarter as the iPad crimped demand for consumer laptops, marking the first time in 20 years that the software maker reported a smaller quarterly profit than Apple Inc.

So, yes, 20 million is greater than 350 million because volume, my friends, does not equal profit.

Source: appleinsider.com