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Apple vs Microsoft

Dito Delacroix — Thu, 27 May 2010 10:02:58 +0000

Microsoft’s dominance as the most valuable technology company on earth has ended. Apple managed to overthrow and now holds the title as the largest technology.
At the close of stock trading on Wall Street yesterday, Apple’s enterprise value reached U.S. $ 223 billion, while Microsoft’s U.S. $ 219 billion. This is the first time that Apple managed to surpass Microsoft. That the information quoted from the Wall Street Journal, Thursday (05/27/2010).

Only in terms of revenue, Apple is still under Microsoft, by comparison to U.S. $ 42.9 billion for Apple and Microsoft gets U.S. $ 58.4 billion. While in the last fiscal year, Apple’s net income of U.S. $ 5.7 billion, while Microsoft’s U.S. $ 14.6 billion.

This event is like a symbol that shows differences in the direction of the two big companies to be able to lead. With the iPhone and iPad, Apple showed that growth continued to soar. In the second quarter of 2010, profits rose 49 percent from a year ago.

While Microsoft is known as the big software company that has dominated of computers for nearly two decades. But then, consumers get amaze by the Apple handheld device. Although it has been trying to against Apple with try to produce of mobile devices and tablet computers, but actually a Microsoft product would still lose prestige.

New Generation iPod Shuffle Small Talk

Dito Delacroix — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:52:09 +0000

Apple never stop to reinvent innovative new products. Yes this new ipod shuffle from Apple, a new born model super mini. The size of this model is only half from the old.

Even have a smaller size when compared with the AA batteries, iPod is cool enough. A service that provides new experiences for users, built-in here, VoiceOver that change the task of key and ipod display. Apple tag line Small Talk refer to “Its size will leave you speechless. Good thing it also talks.”

This Service is what makes iPod sized 1.8″ tall x 0.3″ thin to be exact can ‘talk’. This music player can express a variety of information such as song title and artist name. Can even show the age of battery.

VoiceOver term itself is actually the property of Apple built-in Mac OS X Leopard. This feature is intended for the blind to use the Mac more easily.

This iPod is a little bit unique in operation, that use from the earphone cord, release with the price of $ S79. With 4GB memory, you will be more thatn enough to put more than 1000 song in it.

Digital Experience with iTunes Genius

Dito Delacroix — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:26:41 +0000

Who ever tried to iTunes Genius ? My first impression after try it: Wow!
The iTunes Genius can create a playlist that might never though by the owner mac, including me .

Now I make a playlists much more using new feature of this Genius. Steve Jobs says, “more and more people are uploading information to its iTunes library, much more smart the Genius playlist is created for you”.

You know in iTunes library, there’s a lot free song, movies, apps, or even audio books. As a college student,would you try to buy textbooks online And then save it to your iPod or iPhone And reading later ? Easy as ITunes it self. It’s gonna makes us more Genius

The facts is, GeniusÂ working to grab all the data in your library, and then upload them to a central server apple, and process your data and synchronized with all iTunes users in the world, and decide the songs that were appropriate or match to your playlist genius, both in the beat, mood, and genre.