New iMacs, iWork, iLife, Dot Mac upgrades
Apple wants to offer a certain level of computing experience, and that can’t be done on the cheap. “We just can’t ship junk,” Jobs said.
Ladies and gentleman, the all new iMac, and Steve Jobs is betting that the iMac would be the next best selling desktop PC ever provided that the desktop PC market recovers from the dead.
The new entry-level iMac comes with a 20-inch glossy LCD screen, a dual-core Intel processor, a gigabyte of memory, a quarter-terabyte of storage, and a built-in webcam.
What makes the new iMac stands out is the new aluminum and glass styling is strongly evocative of the company’s hit iPhone. Nothing much to shout about, I was hoping a new Operating System and possibly a Quad Core processor as the new entry line-up.
But then again, with the ability to run Windows in an iMac, this could possible be the selling point Steve Jobs is talking about, I for once as a boss would be glad to purchase these iMac, virus free.
Samsung’s identity crisis
Money CNN has this article on Samsung, it reads:
One day in the not-so-far-off past, Kun-Hee Lee, chairman of Samsung Electronics, sent each of his closest friends and key employees one of the company’s newest wireless phones as a New Year’s present.
It was a nice thought, but it backfired. The things just didn’t work properly, and polite complaints started pouring in. Mortified, Lee rushed to the company’s factory in the South Korean city of Gumi, where most of Samsung’s handsets are made.He gathered the employees in the courtyard, made a giant heap of the factory’s entire inventory of wireless phones — more than $15 million worth — and ordered it smashed to pieces and set on fire.
How I wish companies in China would emulate Samsung and their smaller brother Acer at building reliable products rather than cheap knock-off.
