Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Apple Will Define the Future of the Consumer Technology Industry. Apple is on a path to become the Sony of the Digital World. The key difference is Sony could never string together their different businesses to feed one another and Apple is making that their operating model. Let's examine the pieces Apple has... [digg / Technology] comment []5:32:19 PM

Apple to miss October Xserve delivery, will start accepting pre-orders today. I'm camped out on Apple's Xserve page, breathlessly awaiting the emergence of Xserve Xeon from its "notify me when available" state. It's not going to leap from that to as those in Apple's server program had hoped and planned. Apple can't make its October deadline, so it's taking the intermediate step of creating a pre-order queue. I know that practice strikes some as cheesy, but I'm glad Apple's doing it. Slipping a ship date creates a panic at Apple, probably a legacy of the bad old days when Freescale and IBM decided when Apple would ship a new Mac. I see Xserve Xeon's slip this way: With IBM, HP and Dell homogenization of Core microarchitecture Intel rack servers, Apple's got to make its first shot at an x86 server count. In servers, the Apple brand carries no weight (yet). It'll all on the machine and OS X. That's worth taking a little time to get right. As for whether it's worth your while to get in line for your very own Xserve Xeon, I can help you with that. Keep reading. [Enterprise Mac] comment []11:57:22 AM

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