Category: Hardware
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Apple iPhone Sales Too Low at Only 52,800 Per Day!
Reading Time: 4 minutesForgive the sarcasm implied by this post’s headline, but I cannot believe the reflexive way that the market reacts to quarterly results for companies that are lapping the field in their industry. Yesterday Apple reported sales and earnings for their fiscal third quarter that were fantastic. To use a phrase that some…
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A High School Drummer Keeps Drumming, Defying Degenerative Disease
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEthan Och plays in the high school band in Swanville, Minnesota (USA Today article that includes video from KARE-TV), despite spinal muscular atrophy– thanks to an iPad. The imagination of the band director and the commitment of community sponsors that support the band is pretty incredible. [ via LoopInsight.com ]
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One Person’s Criminal is Another Person’s Street-Level Entrepreneur
Reading Time: 2 minutesCasey Neistat created a 6 1/2 minute film called Black Market Takes Over the iPhone 6 Lines that shows portions of what happened at the Apple Store SoHo and other Apple stores in Manhattan on the day before and the day of the iPhone 6 release. The film focuses on a number…
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Is Cook’s Team Fostering a New Era of Apple Secrecy?
Reading Time: 2 minutesGreat post this morning by Dave Mark on The Loop called iWatch speculation, where he cites James Gill’s Why Would Apple make a watch? Gill said: Not long after Tim Cook took over as full time CEO, he made a promise: “We’re going to double down on secrecy.” A few years on…
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Seven Years of iPhone
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn June 29, 2007 at Freehold Raceway Mall in Freehold, New Jersey, I bought the first model of the iPhone that was made available for public sale. We still have that iPhone here today. My son Peter sometimes plays games on it. I remember saying to my wife Kathleen, “Well, I’m going…
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The Android Metric I Want to See: Minutes of Usage Per Day vs Minutes Connected to Outlet Power
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the things I noticed in several homes and offices to which I recently traveled is that many Android users seem to connect their devices to power outlets at every opportunity. I saw this usage pattern a few days ago in connection with a Moto X that was recently purchased by…
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Samsung Anti-Theft Proposal Reportedly Not Accepted by Leading Mobile Carriers
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe New York Times is reporting that AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint rejected Samsung’s proposal for a kill switch for network use of high end smartphones that have been stolen. According to the report on The Bits blog: … the carriers don’t think a so-called kill switch is the right way to…
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Adding a Third iPhone to An Existing Post-Paid “Mobile Share” Wireless Plan
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe other day I was explaining to a friend how my son Jimmy ended up with the iPhone 4S that used to be my personal phone. I thought that this explanation might be helpful to our readers who are considering a similar purchase. Kathleen and I looked at the economics of…
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A Revolution Too Big to Miss
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the past, Operation Gadget defined a niche at the intersection of gadgets and the technology used in sports. With that in mind, there has never been a mobile phone product announcement as significant as the iPhone 5s was to this site’s target audience. For years, my friends and I have applied…