Archive for the 'Business' Category

Sell Me Your Product

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Today Garrett Murray let loose a rather provocative post, wherein he details the unfortunate series of events that unfolded after selling his company’s product and web site to Brian Ball of MacZOT. Long story short: Brian agreed to pay roughly $5000 for the product, in installments. But a contractual loophole of Garrett’s own devising inadvertently […]

Macintendo Family Values

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

Update: 12/29/2006 Disclaimer: This article is not news. It is humor as a backdrop for high-level analysis. Please do not cite it as a rumor, or even as speculation. The “announcement” is not based on any factual information that has been made available to me. Although I enjoyed the fantasy of a Nintendo/Apple partnership as […]

MacSanta

Monday, December 18th, 2006

Phew! I was traveling today so I didn’t get a chance to blog this earlier. MacSanta is an awesome chance to buy Mac software from … literally dozens (27 so far) of independent software companies, all at 20% off. Red Sweater is participating, and all you have to do to score the big discount is […]

Taking The Blame

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Apple shipped a Windows virus on a very small number of iPods, but like a child who can’t say sorry without adding a “but” clause, their announcement falls short of complete contrition. “As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves […]