Paul Thurrott suggests that at least one Microsoft Store and other retailers are sold out of the Surface Pro 128GB model. He also said that Microsoft’s online store is sold out of that model.
This is great news for Microsoft, but I’ll wait until I hear exactly how many were sold before I congratulate the company too much.
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Michael Dell:
I am confident we are making the right decisions to position Dell, our customers and employees for long-term success. There is much more we can accomplish together.
I can’t wait to see what he does.
Kevin Roose on his using his BlackBerry Z10 review unit:
But then you died. After four days of trying you out, for no reason at all, you simply refused to turn on. I removed and replaced your battery, tried to manually reset you, and even connected you to my laptop to see if I could revive you that way. But you stayed there, motionless and dark, the lifeblood drained from your mini-USB port.
Hey, what’s that noise? BlackBerry circling the drain.
Rian van der Merwe:
[Dieter] Rams didn’t say that good design disappears completely. “As little design as possible” is not about making things invisible, it’s about “not burdening products with non-essentials”. It’s about making the right choices about what should be there, and what shouldn’t.
Great article.
Ed Bott clearly did a lot of work on this article comparing the disk space of the Surface Pro and the MacBook Air, but I’ll tell you this — I’d put the MacBook Air up against the Surface Pro anytime, anywhere.
The Fed statement on Thursday was its first explicit acknowledgment that it did not yet know the extent of the security breach. Cyber-security specialists say it takes time to thoroughly investigate a stealthy intrusion by skilled hackers.
Love the chef. […]
I agree with Harry Marks. “Source Links” at the bottom of articles are a way for a site to steal your content, but make themselves feel better about doing it.
Ben Brooks has a big list of things he wants for his ideal platform. I would like many of those items, but I would most like a simple interface that only loads the code needed for what I’m using on a particular page on the site.
I would pay for a platform like that.
Jim and Dan discuss Dell going private and how Apple has defined itself over the years with a brief appearance by Dan’s mom. Later they are joined by Greg Howard of 3 Monkeys Amps to talk about building custom amplifiers.
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I spoke with the guy that started this last night. Sounds like a great idea.
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Apple updating shareholders on its cash plans.
BlackBerry will stop selling smartphones in Japan, partly because the company cannot justify the cost of modifying its operating system to accommodate the Japanese language.
Lucky Japanese.
An argument between Digiday’s editor-in-chief Brian Morrissey and Business Insider founder Henry. I agree with Morrissey.
Here are 33 tips compiled by Dan Moren and Lex Friedman.
Respect.
I want this guitar.
BlackBerry’s CEO said handsets in the UK were selling out, but retailers say they aren’t sold out at all.
Oopsie.
And then BlackBerry takes a page from Amazon with this statement:
“In Canada, yesterday was the best day ever for the first day of a launch of a new BlackBerry smartphone. In fact, it was more than 50% better than any other launch day in our history in Canada.
No numbers — 50% more than what? Did you sell six BlackBerry’s?
This should be on top of the list of ways to choose where you’re going to live.
Wow! […]
Mike Isaac and John Paczkowski wrote an article about how Apple forced Vine to have a 17+. The reason for the rating is because it could show the user porn.
In other words, think of yourself as a teenager to Apple’s repressed mother — you hide your porn under your mattress. You don’t leave it out on the coffee table.
I don’t get the reason for the article. Besides taking an unnecessary swipe at Apple — actually several swipes — I don’t understand what their problem is.
“What would I do? I’d shut it [Apple] down and give the money back to the shareholders,”
Asked about Dell’s comments 16 years later in the context of Dell’s privatization effort, a Dell spokesperson gave TPM the following statement:
“That comment has been taken out of context and is not relevant.”
Well now, that’s convenient.
Some staggering numbers from market research firm Canalys on Wednesday. There were 134 million PCs shipped in the fourth quarter of 2012, with one-third of them being tablets. […]
A bit of a follow-up to yesterday’s HTML5 media players.
Apple said today that it has sold more than 25 billion songs on its iTunes Store.
The box is shaped like an amp. Love it.
The next closest competitor is Amazon at 7.7%.
Om Malik looks at Michael Dell buying back his company.