Arrived yesterday at 11:09.
Had the old USB cable so I didn’t need to get one. Downloaded the newest software from Canon and up and running. The envelope printing is much easier than the old printer and the OCR works better too, not that I ever find much need for that. Used up the sample photo-paper and thought the results were very good. I’ll probably never buy any more.
Cheap, prints quickly and well, works with OS X 10.6.2. Ink looks dear but I don’t print very much.
MobileCrunch details a research report [Google translation] released last week by Japanese market research firm Impress R&D showing that the iPhone commands 46.1% of the smartphone market there.For this year, Impress sees the 3G comm… [From iPhone Claims 46% of Japanese Smartphone Market]
So much for those ‘iPhone fails to catch on in Japan’ stories that were going around.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Internet, Apple, iPhone, iPod touch
Philip Elmer-DeWitt has an excellent article over at Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog on Morgan Stanley’s The Mobile Internet seminar. The article is full of juicy tidbits, but here is the main course:
Based on past performance, according to Morgan Stanley, Apple is in the “pole position” in the race to dominate mobile Internet computing, which is supposed to be for the 2000s what desktop Internet computing was for the 1990s, personal computing for the 1980s, mini computing for the 1970s, and mainframe computing for the 1960s.
“Apple has a two or three-year lead” according to Katy Huberty, thanks to an installed base of 57 million handsets, 100,000 apps and 200 million iTunes subscribers with credit card numbers on file.
Another interesting tidbit that DeWitt spotlights is a diagram that compares Facebook’s 350,000 apps and 137% year-over-year growth with the iPhone’s 100,000 apps and 163% growth. As DeWitt points out, “The place where Mark Zuckerberg’s 430 million users overlap with Steve Jobs’ 57 million is the sweet spot of the mobile Internet. It’s here, according to Morgan Stanley, where we find the future of computing.”Be sure to check out DeWitt’s article, as it’s a great read, but if you want to delve deeper, you can check out the 92 slides of the Morgan Stanley presentation, the 659-slide “key themes” presentation, and the massive 424-page Mobile Internet Report, all in PDF format.TUAW”Apple has a two or three-year lead” in mobile internet domination originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments [From “Apple has a two or three-year lead” in mobile internet domination]
Nokia’s response to the iPhone may work or not. Microsoft doesn’t seem to have one yet, and is pressed on the other side by Android.
My old (seven years next January) hp psc 2110 started the death rattle again today. After dismantling, cleaning and reassembling it I managed to print one postage paid envelope before it started rattling again. So I hied off to Amazon to find a cheap all-in-one with support for OS X 10.6 eventually settling on a Canon PIXMA MP270 with Prime next day delivery, and driver support for print and scan according to Apple. I only got through about two sets of ink on the old printer so I’m not worried about running costs.
Trying out the Bodum double wall glasses in the Tassimo to see if it really makes a coffee with three layers.
It tasted quite nice too.
Is Apple Buying VoIP Provider iCall? [Apple]: “Apple is flush with cash, and as it looks like we’re coming out of the recession (fingers crossed!), it’s in prime position to make some acquisitions. Last week, Apple purchased music startup Lala, for example, and it was sniffing around mobile ad network AdMob before Google acquired it. So what will Apple buy next? One reader just sent us a message that Apple is in talks to acquire VoIP company iCall in a $50 million to $60 million deal. Is this true? iCall co-founder and CEO Arlo Gilbert, reached by phone, would not confirm or deny any talks, but that’s the response he’s supposed to give us. We have not yet heard back from Apple. (Anyway, everyone talks to everyone, so it’s worth discussing.) So, should Apple buy a VoiP company — the way Google, increasingly a rival — has acquired two? (GrandCentral, now Google Voice; and recently Gizmo5.) For its long-term strategy, it makes sense for Apple to at least have a VoIP product available — even if only for defensive purposes, even if it never launches. In the short term, it would probably piss off Apple’s carrier partners, which sell the majority of Apple’s iPhones, and currently make the vast majority of their revenue by selling voice phone service. But for Apple’s longer term strategy, it is a good idea. Why? It’s obvious to everyone but wireless carriers that wireless carriers are increasingly becoming dumb pipes. People are sick of carriers’ ridiculous fees and policies, and just want a good device that can connect to the Internet and make calls. As data networks evolve, it will be possible to make calls as well over the Internet as by using a voice network, and cheaper. (It’s already getting there.) And that’s when Apple may seek to increase its control over iPhone owners — and recurring revenue from them — by becoming a VoIP service provider. Moreover, as that becomes a bigger industry, Apple should not give that business to Skype, Google, or anyone else. So for that long-term interest, Apple may already be hiring (or acq-hiring) today. iCall has more than 100,000 iPhone users, its CEO tells us, so it already knows the business pretty well. It also owns the trademark to ‘iCall,’ which Apple may or may not want to own. And perhaps it has executives and/or technology that Apple could want. So whether true or not, it would not be too surprising.
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(Via Gizmodo.)
This rumour makes too much sense to be true.
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