Read more about the third A … Amazon, Apple, and Anus African entrepreneurs, taking a page form the early days of Dell Computers, low ball the market for laptops. Amazon and Apple are about to get a kick in their arses. I wonder if these computers will be manufacured in North Korea under Kim[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Amazon’
October 9th, 2011 - 9:07 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Waiting for Steve (Balmer)
The Coming Battle (based on a piece in the Huff Post) A new survey by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), in both China and America, showed that Windows easily outpaced iOS, MIcrosoft has a great opportunity, its own fanbase! John Rose, one of the lead authors of the report, told HuffPost tha[...]
October 9th, 2011 - 8:07 am § in The Ave Scene
Amazon Seems to Think Its “A” Stands for Apple
This reads a LOT like WWJD … that is what would Jobs do? I have been thinking about getting a Fire but with Sprint starting to support the iPad and offering 4G on the Motorola Zoom (now a product of Google), it seems to me that either of those is a better choice even if […][...]
October 7th, 2011 - 9:11 am § in Misc.
Apple on Fire: At $199 this thing is going to sell!
UPDATE: More details on what Applesauce can and can not do, Seattle Times. Bottom line. Amazon’s Fire is directed squarely at media. For $200 it replaces any need for another device to read books, read pdfs, watch TV, or play games. Apple is in trouble. There are also hidden design elements [...]
October 7th, 2011 - 8:41 am § in Uncategorized
University Village B&N to CLOSE!!!
One down… Barnes & Noble’s University Village exit good news Elliott Bay and the University Book Store? Isn’t this tied in closely to the new Kindles from Amazon? I wonder if the message is that B&N’s concept is dead. Books (as opposed to e books) may need to be mar[...]
September 12th, 2011 - 8:48 am § in The Ave Scene
Will Amazon Applesauce Be The BIG Winner?
What future for books in the digital age? As iPads make an appearance in classrooms in France, the question is being asked – are we getting closer to an era of only having electronic and digitised books? In Correze, France the… If this story IS the future, the company that will benefit is Amazon[...]
September 4th, 2011 - 4:30 am § in The Ave Scene
Amazon May Make Apple Sauce
Apple sauce anyone? After months of rumors, Amazon finally released some details of an approximate release time and pricing for its version of an Android pad. . Not one but two tablets. The first of these upcoming tablets will be 7-inch, with a dual core processor running the android opera[...]