Playboy 50th Anniversay disk pc-only (not really)
by Brad Brighton, NMR Media CEO
December 4, 2003
With three separate entries in Playboy's "Top 50 Products That Changed The World", Apple stands tall on the useful innovation front. Strangely, though, the CD that comes packaged with that issue is set up to be PC only. While it's not surprising from a general perspective, Playboy's preferences toward the Mac overall and Earthlink's position of "isp of choice" for the Mac (Earthlink is the major sponsor of the CD) might have given at least a nod to the Mac platform. Instead, Mac users have to ferret the information off the disc themselves. more...
Apple's new product strategies-turning Microsofts model on its head
by Eliot Hochberg
November 10, 2003
I've noticed an interesting trend with Apple's recent product releases, namely the iTunes Music Store and the iPod. In the past, Apple has often created software and hardware that people don't yet know what they would do with. Witness FireWire, the Newton, QuickTime 3D – these projects have yielded mixed results, and have often lost the company money.more...
Undoology 101
by Mark Dalrymple
November 11, 2003
When I first sat down to play with a Mac back in 1984, the feature that MacPaint and MacWrite had that completely amazed me was Undo. Make a mistake? Just undo it! That single command made the programs so much more interesting because it made the program forgiving. I could play with a new tool and not worry about destroying all the work I've already done, since I could just undo it. more...
