Michael Gartenberg
Michael Gartenberg
Michael Gartenberg is a technology journalist, analyst and blogger. He is an Apple Inc. employee, and was previously a Research Director at Gartner, focussed on the world of the interconnected consumer...
changing consumers digital easy instead interact pictures printing realizing shows wallpaper ways
Often consumers don't have an easy way to get the pictures off the camera. So they use them as wallpaper and screensavers instead of printing them. It shows how consumers are changing the way they are interacting with digital technology. Consumers are realizing that there's many ways they can interact with their pictures other than just printing them out and pasting them into an album.
asian capture consumers early faster interest market minds products sony though tv
Sony was not early in the plasma TV market even though consumers showed interest in it. Other Asian competitors were able to get products out faster and capture the minds of consumers.
consumers department fairly house seems stuff
More importantly, they've done it in a way that seems to be fairly understandable by consumers so you don't have to have a whole IT department in your house to make this stuff work.
beyond blitz company consumer consumers extremely fact focus lost lucrative market move pcs reminder using word
This blitz is a reminder of the fact that while enterprises are extremely important to the company, HP has not lost the focus on things that it excels at. The consumer market can be very lucrative as consumers move beyond using their PCs just for e-mail and word processing.
likely might older
In general, the older your hardware, the more likely there are going to be no drivers, and there might be BIOS problems,
digital player riding successful
There's a lot riding on Vista. Vista must be successful if they want to be an important player in the digital home.
connected far until
Not until TVs become far more connected than they are now will this become big. It's right now still going to be far more for the enthusiast,
head product second steps terms
The first steps will be to reorganize what they need in terms of head count, and the second is to reinvigorate and revitalize the product lines.
apple mac media microsoft online represents threat win
It represents a big win for Apple and the Mac platform. But Apple doesn't represent a threat to AOL's business. Apple isn't a media company; it's not in online services. It's not the same threat as when Microsoft wanted interoperability.
curses discover peak strategy
The strategy here of under-promising and being able to over-deliver is the right approach. Typically one of the thing that curses startups is when you peak too early, when expectations are set way too high, they discover there are issues.
apple compliance devil locked mechanism music possible quite says seamless
How seamless does that mechanism need to be under this law? The devil here is in the detail. It's quite possible that Apple says they're in compliance with this law. No one is locked into Apple's music format.
couple giving hear maybe people road sold videos
It will be interesting to see a couple of years down the road if we'll hear people grumbling that maybe all videos should be sold the same, maybe we're giving it too cheap.
expect few means next
Expect that we'll have a lot to say about what it all means as well as the implications over the next few weeks.
browser build effort expense experience feature great modern reinvent secondary solutions spend time using wants
Browsing is a secondary feature that is very important on today's modern devices, but no one wants to spend the time and effort to reinvent the browsing experience when there are already great solutions on the market, ... Nokia is using a best-of-breed browser without the expense of having to build it all themselves.