Matt Gemmell on How to Compete With iPad

post from Daring Fireball on 17 February 2010 05:49:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Matt Gemmell:

It?s difficult to get our heads around the fact that these non-technologically-savvy users can suddenly constitute a core market for a device, yet that?s the case here. Nintendo saw it, and Apple sees it too. It?s an uncomfortable realisation since these people are so unfamiliar to people like you, as hardware manufacturers, and me as a software engineer. This discomfort leads to a kind of understandable blindness, and more importantly can make us leave money on the table. The relative sales and demand figures for Wii vs PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 over the last several Christmases are indicative of that.

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Nuance acquires MacSpeech, plans
NaturallySpeaking for Mac

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 17 February 2010 05:40:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Nuance on Wednesday announced that it has acquired MacSpeech, the company behind the speech recognit...

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Macgamestore.com intros Tourist Trap sim-game for
Mac

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 17 February 2010 05:25:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Macgamestore.com has announced Tourist Trap, a new sim-game that has players try to create the natio...

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Tim Bray on the Style of the HTML5 Spec

post from Daring Fireball on 17 February 2010 05:24:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Delightfully wonkish.

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Jabra intros Clipper Bluetooth headset at MWC

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 17 February 2010 05:00:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Jabra took the opportunity at the Mobile World Congress show in Spain to show off its latest Bluetoo...

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Sonny Software releases Bookends 11

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Sonny Software has introduced a new version of its bibliography and reference management software, B...

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Gefen ships DisplayPort/MiniDP adapters, cables

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 17 February 2010 04:35:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Gefen on Wednesday released a number of new products that will hook up to the newly standardized Min...

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Wolfram Workbench 2 adds documentation support

Wolfram has released Workbench 2, a development environment targeting the enterprise level. Users ...

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ITC to look into Kodak complaint against Apple,
RIM

The International Trade Commission today agreed to investigate Kodak's complaint against Apple and R...

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Best App Ever Winners See Big Sales Boost After
Winners Announced

148Apps announced today that winners and nominees of its 2009 Best App Ever Awards, which were[...]

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