Analysis

Apple’s unstoppable march

by Kenny Hemphill on 13 May 2010 in Analysis

Microsoft may have announced a massive investment programme, but it seems there’s little it can do to stop Apple from becoming even bigger. Apple recently achieved a landmark, which, while barely noticed by most of its customers, may turn out to be extremely significant. On 9 March, its market capitalisation passed the $200 billion (about [...]

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Simplicity is ultimate sophistication

by Kenny Hemphill on 13 May 2010 in Analysis

Most people don’t care about technical intricacies – they just want their kit to work with the minimum of fuss, and that’s where Apple is hitting the mark. Search Google for the term ‘Facebook login’ and unless it has had a dramatic re-shuffle in the days between my writing this and you reading it, among [...]

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The shape of things to come

by Kenny Hemphill on 13 May 2010 in Analysis

Apple’s new tablet may have its many detractors, but don’t let them fool you because the iPad will change the way we all use computers forever. There are many reasons to doubt that Apple’s iPad will repeat the phenomenal success of the iPod and iPhone. For one thing, it seems to be a platform without [...]

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How to get ahead in advertising

by Kenny Hemphill on 13 May 2010 in Analysis

With mobile devices set to overtake computers as the way most of us access the web, is Apple getting ready to start developing mobile ads? Earlier this month, when most of us were still recovering from New Year hangovers and the excesses of the Christmas season, it emerged that Apple had bought a company called [...]

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Online delivery

by Kenny Hemphill on 13 May 2010 in Analysis

Forget the much-hyped and as-yet-unconfirmed tablet. The big news is the unprecedented growth in Mac sales at a time of economic hardship. Given the sheer volume of speculation surrounding the as-yet-unannounced Apple tablet, and the acres of space on the Internet devoted to the iPhone and its apps, you’d be forgiven for thinking that these [...]

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Arrested development

by Kenny Hemphill on 13 May 2010 in Analysis

The different interpretations of the GPU are threatening to shake the bedrock of the WordPress open-source developer community. There’s a row brewing in cyberspace and its outcome could materially affect nothing less than the content management system that underpins thousands of the world’s websites. The CMS in question is WordPress, a blogging platform that has [...]

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