Bullish on Apple. David Weinberger says: "If only Apple let other people build Mac machines so we'd get the sort of hardware openness that Unix is providing on the software side." David: be careful what you wish for. If you have a clone market, Apple will have to build device drivers for a variety of machines, just like Microsoft has to. This alone will cost Apple a lot of effort and time (slowing down Apple's ability to innovate and distracting them). I used to be an advocate for Apple to open up the market, but I don't see how they can do that. Apple's culture just doesn't allow for this, especially now that Jobs is in control again. Anyway, I have a pretty close to state of the art IBM ThinkPad. Is it any better than a Titanium? I can't see any hardware advantage to my IBM. [Scobleizer Radio Weblog]
Microsoft: Xbox In It for the Long Haul. Despite lagging in the video game war against Sony's PlayStation 2 and Nintendo's GameCube, Microsoft will boost its Xbox system with an online gaming service and a $2 billion investment over the next five years, signaling that the company is committed t [Windows Informant]
