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		<title>Saying Apple Will Never Do Something: Always Dangerous</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/18/saying-apple-will-never-do-something-always-dangerous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a cross post from our partner site Technologizer. For years, there’s been a persistent, as-yet-unrealized rumor that Apple will start making HDTVs. Received wisdom, however, has generally argued that it’s not going to happen. TVs are too commoditized; TVs would have to come in too many sizes; TVs are too off message for Apple. Marco Arment, the smart guy who invented Instapaper, just made the case against an Apple HDTV. Then again, another smart guy, Chris Dixon, warns against assuming that Apple isn’t going to make HDTVs just because the current market doesn’t look Apple-esque at all. He also tweeted an intriguing thought, which I learned about from MG Siegler, who also thinks that an Apple HDTV isn’t unthinkable: @cdixon chris dixon it would be interesting to go back and read the arguments about why Apple wont release a phone. eg carrier market power etc. April 16, 2011 11:56 am via Twitter for iPhoneReplyRetweetFavorite Good idea! Herewith, a few blog posts from years past that confidently explained why Apple surely wouldn’t release a phone, an iPod that worked like an iPhone, and a tablet. They’re all examples of what I’ve come to think of as the “Apple will never” fallacy. “Why Apple won’t make a cell phone” By: Jon Stokes, Ars Technica, April 12th, 2003 The gist: Stokes says that he was convinced by an analyst quoted in a Ziff Davis story about why “Apple won’t go near the cell phone business anytime soon.” Sadly, he also says that “I won’t try to summarize his arguments, here, but they’re worth reading”–but he links to an article that’s turned into a dead link. I can’t track down the story to see what rationale the analyst offered, but it was apparently compelling in its logic. [UPDATE: With the help of an Archive.org link from commenter Mart, I found the story that Jon Stokes linked to. Turns out it's by my friend Ross Rubin, who cites the following reasons why an Apple phone isn't in the offing: Apple won't want to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=77251&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I’m Sorry, the Future of Phones is Unknowable</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/30/i%e2%80%99m-sorry-the-future-of-phones-is-unknowable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article has been cross-posted from our partner site, Technologizer. Research firm IDC–a sister company of my former employer, PCWorld–has released its latest estimates of the current and future marketshare of major smartphone operating systems. The headline news: It’s predicting that Android will continue to boom and that Microsoft’s Windows Phone, currently on the ropes, will bounce back to second place by 2015. Here are IDC’s numbers for 2011 and 2015 (I swiped them from Don Reisinger’s post at Cnet): But here’s an earlier round of IDC figures, from September of last year–I borrowed these ones from Betanews’s Joe Wilcox–when the big news was that iOS’s share was going to drop by 26 percent by 2014: Wow–last fall’s predictions for 2014 are strikingly different from this spring’s ones for 2015. Now IDC thinks that Android will do even better than it thought before, and that iOS’s share will slip by just .4 percent, not 26 percent. And its current projection for Windows in 2015 is more than double its old one for Windows in 2014. So what happened? That’s easy: In February, Nokia and Microsoft announced an agreement that will make Windows Phone the primary operating system on Nokia smartphones. With the deal in place, Symbian is heading for retirement. IDC’s 2015 projections involve divvying up nearly all of Symbian’s marketshare among Android, Windows Phone, and iOS. As of right this very moment, that’s&#8217;s a perfectly sensible piece of guesswork about how Symbian’s exit will affect the market. Except… The very fact that IDC’s projections were so heavily profoundly by the Nokia-Microsoft news shows that all estimates about what smartphone marketshare will look like in a few years are hopeless. The Nokia-Microsoft alliance isn’t a once-in-a-lifetime, world-changing stunner–it’s a big twist, but no bigger than numerous other ones that have impacted phones over the past few years. And plenty more developments of equal significance will happen between now and 2015. The more I think about this, the more I believe that it was painfully obvious in September of 2010 that the chances of Symbian’s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=73794&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung&#8217;s Fake Galaxy Tab Interviews: Hey, Those Words Sound Familiar!</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/27/samsungs-fake-galaxy-tab-interviews-hey-those-words-sound-familiar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article has been cross-posted from our partner site, Technologizer. Which open to simulated magazine spreads on the subjects&#8230; Phil even figured out that the text was lifted from a review of the original Galaxy Tab. One that wasn&#8217;t glowing&#8211;for instance, the text that Samsung&#8217;s video producers lifted says that the Tab is &#8220;no where near as polished and complete&#8221; as the original iPad. When Phil quoted the review, it sounded familiar. As well it should have: I wrote it. It&#8217;s the piece I did for TIME last November.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=73094&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Samsung’s New Galaxy Tab Fibbing About Its Figure?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/25/is-samsung%e2%80%99s-new-galaxy-tab-fibbing-about-its-figure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article has been cross-posted from our partner site, Technologizer. At CTIA Wireless earlier this week, Samsung announced a new 10.1″ Galaxy Tab tablet–one which it said was thinner and lighter than the iPad 2, with the same starting price of $499. After the press event, I scurried over to the Samsung booth in hopes of getting some hands-on time with the new Tab. When I got there, I found that the 10.1″ Tabs out on tables were the older, relatively portly version announced last month at Mobile World Congress. The new 10.1-incher (and its 8.9″ sibling) were inside glass cases, and they weren’t powered on. I also discovered that my friend Fritz Nelson of InformationWeek had beat me to the booth–and he told me that he was trying to get Samsung to give him a Tab he could hold and judge. Looks like he succeeded–he’s published a CTIA tablet roundup that includes a couple of comparison shots of the iPad 2 and a prototype of the new 10.1″ Galaxy Tab–ones which he says show that the Tab–supposedly 8.6mm to the iPad 2′s 8.8mm–is very slightly thicker than the iPad 2. I guess we’ll figure out what the deal is when the Tab shows up in stores, which it’s supposed to do in June. Me, I was confused about a different aspect of Samsung’s event (which you canwatch here). Much of it was devoted to video clips from the “Samsung Galaxy Tab Interview Project,” which the opening titles said took place on March 3rd in New York, and which was shown to involve inviting busy, successful New Yorkers to try the Galaxy Tab of their choice and share their opinions. The New Yorkers in question were identified as freelance travel writer Joan Hess, independent filmmaker Karl Shefelman, and leading real estate CEO Joseph Kolinksi. As I watched the interviews, I noticed that Shefelman spoke and behaved more or less like a normal person, but Hess and Kolinksi came off as performers dressed for their parts and parroting Samsung talking points. I couldn’t tell whether we<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=73054&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rumors of Firefox’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/24/rumors-of-firefox%e2%80%99s-death-are-greatly-exaggerated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Author</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article has been cross-posted from our partner site, Technologizer. There’s misguided analysis out there this week (see here,here, and to some extent here for examples) on how supposedly Firefox is dead or in trouble. Better stop the presses: it sure isn’t happening yet. In the first 24 hours following the browser’s official release, consumers have downloaded it more than 4.7 million times, double the rate for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 debut last week. Downloads continue at a fairly torrid pace — you can follow here. Firefox 4′s success is evidence of the fact that consumers are still looking past Microsoft when it comes to browsers. According to NetApplications, Internet Explorer’s market share is now down to 57 percent. IE has been on a consistent decline for the past several years, and the upstart success of Chrome (which now has 11 percent of the market), and Firefox (at about 22 percent), show that consumers are ready for life post-Microsoft. IE9 won’t turn Microsoft’s fortunes around in browsers, and neither Microsoft’s woes nor Mozilla’s alleged certain death have anything to do with Web app support (reading the Firefox roadmap answers that critique, which I covered here, and check out Jared’s story on the Mozilla Web Apps platform). The challenge is called tablets. While some of us in the tech blogosphere have poked a little fun at Steve Jobs’ “post-PC” comments, he’s on to something. With tablets now a legitimate force, it is only a matter of time before these devices begin to affect market share. How else do you think Safari has been able to grow its market share so quickly? I highly doubt that many are downloading Safari for Windows, frankly. These devices will help either Chrome (for Android devices) or Safari (for iOS). As people increase their web use through tablets, it will come at the further expense of Internet Explorer and even Firefox too. Microsoft has no real plans in tablets for at least another year, and that’s going to hurt. Click here to view and comment on the original article.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=72697&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visa Moves In On PayPal’s Turf With Payment Service</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/17/visa-moves-in-on-paypal%e2%80%99s-turf-with-payment-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article has been cross-posted from our partner site, Technologizer. PayPal is about to get some competition from one of its own partners as Visa announced a new personal payments service on Wednesday. The offering would allow anyone from a participating bank to send payments directly to any Visa account, whether it be a credit, debit, or prepay card. Visa said it needed to make some changes to its backend to allow its partners to accept incoming payments, as well as changes to the network itself. The creditor has partnered with CashEdge and Fiserv to handle the person-to-person transactions — Visa itself would not be directly involved. To send a payment, the payer would need to know the payee’s 16-digit Visa account number, e-mail address, or phone number. Once sent, the payment would show up in the users account. This could be used in a number of ways — for example, making sure your child at college has money on his prepaid Visa, or that friend paying you back for that item you charged to your Visa credit card, etc. Visa says the payment service should be available from participating financial institutions beginning in the second half of this year. Click here to view and comment on the original article. &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=71323&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Someday, Nobody Will Ask &#8220;PC or Mac?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/12/07/someday-nobody-will-ask-pc-or-mac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s Technologizer column at TIME.com, I take a stab at answering technology&#8217;s longest-running question: &#8220;PC or Mac?&#8221; My answer won&#8217;t please everybody&#8211;it&#8217;s a topic that instantly sends some people into prickly, combative mode&#8211;but it&#8217;s the only one that makes sense: &#8220;It depends on what you&#8217;re trying to do, and how much money you have to spend.&#8221; I&#8217;ve done similar stories many times before&#8211;if I&#8217;d been writing about computers in 1984, when the Mac debuted, I&#8217;m sure I would have done a &#8220;DOS or Mac?&#8221; article. It doesn&#8217;t feel repetitive, because the game keeps changing. (More on Time.com: Apple&#8217;s Hits and Misses So Far) But something good has been happening lately: The decision has gotten simpler and less risky. Both Windows PCs and Macs are, on some level, primarily boxes that run the Web browsers we do much of our work in&#8211;once you&#8217;re inside your favorite browser, it doesn&#8217;t matter all that much which operating system your computer uses. And a high percentage of peripherals&#8211;cameras, printers, and many phones&#8211;don&#8217;t care whether you connect them to a Windows computer or a Mac. The world isn&#8217;t completely neutral yet: If you&#8217;re a gamer or a user of big-business software, for instance, you want to run Windows (which, of course, you can do on a Mac if you choose). Security hassles remain an argument against using Windows and a point in the Mac&#8217;s favor. And computer companies still vary wildly&#8211;among the biggest arguments in favor of buying a Mac is the ability to walk into an Apple Store and seek troubleshooting help at the Genius Bar. (More on Time.com: 25 Years Of Windows: The Best &#38; Worst Of Microsoft&#8217;s OS) But we&#8217;re clearly moving into an era in which you can pick a computer that pleases you without fretting too much about what it can&#8217;t do. That might be bad news for folks who want to write PC-vs.-Mac stories, but it&#8217;s a great development for both PC types and Mac fans. And with that out of the way, we can move on to more<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=58018&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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