Gen Kanai has condensed the recent iPod-centric NY Times rub-and-blub piece about Apple into easily digestible chunks:
– Apple now has 78 retail stores (and one in Ginza, Tokyo that pissed me off yesterday) – Jobs did not back Newton nor General Magic
– Jobs canceled all consulting contracts at Apple in ’97 (yes!)
– “The success of the iPod doesn’t seem to have significantly changed Apple’s market share,”
The very same Times handjob actually has this nugget of actual news, brought to our attention by Om Malik:
Last year, the company quietly added two new wireless standards, known as 3GPP and 3GPP2, to its QuickTime software for sending and receiving multimedia over digital cellular networks. Because Apple was an early leader in the Wi-Fi market with its airport wireless networking base station, the reasoning goes, the company may be hard at work on a line of digital mobile phones that would take the company into the fast-growing voice-over-Internet-protocol, or VoIP market. But if that is Apple s strategy, Mr. Jobs isn t saying.
Keep in mind this is the same Apple that is supposedly working on a follow-up PDA to the Newton and a video iPod, as well.
Read [Kanai]
Read [GigaOm]
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