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What is interesting about this case, is the fact that Apple cooperates with a company like AT&T that does not meet in any way the quality requirements of the product sold. Now it becomes clear that the customers are not willing to take this situation any longer and a similar case like the one with "Dell Hell" (see blog entry about Jeff Jarvis) where the customer's "revolution" is taking place on the web and having significant impact on the reputation of the concerned companies.
In my opinion it is now time that AT&T is doing something proactively about this issue. If they don't I expect Apple to get out of the exclusive contracts with AT&T.

However, we will see if there is any noticeable impact on the AT&T network during friday when Operation Chokehold may become true.

The fact, that Google is pushing its new Chrome OS into the market respectively it is only beginning to push it, is reason enough to think about the current and future situation of "traditional" operating systems.

TechCrunch has just published a comment from MG Siedler where he is talking about the squeezing of Microsoft

Basically this supports my thesis put in the earlier post about Windows 7

So we'll be excited about what the future (or Google) will bring us.

We all know that there are different approaches for marketing guys to sell a product. And one of the most successful in the last few years may be Apple's Steve Jobs in selling his iPod and transform Apple (for some) to a lifestyle.

Now a nice video has shown up on Youtube, where the user "justanotherguy84" has cut the presentation of the new iPod Series from Apple to show only the adjectives used in this presentation. The video is really made in a good quality and funny, but see yourself:

I have some time ago, already looked at Objective-C and Cocoa, the framework from Apple, but never stayed strictly with my learning objectives. One reason was maybe that the book I have bought was based on an old version of XCode, this made it really heavy to follow the exercises.

Now I have some spare time and I started a new try. With other tutorials and the right books for my version of XCode. But I had to recognise soon, that I have first to read some basics about the programming in C or Objective-C before I could go on with the book about Cocoa.

The new year brings a new version of the internet telephony software Skype to the users of Macs. The version has brand new features, only available so far for Mac. As soon as I did hear from this, I had to download the new version, which is now available as Public Beta.

The new features are actually two, but I could have tested only one for now. To name it, the first innovation is called "Skype Access" and enables the users of Skype to access WiFi spots around the world. So far this should be over 100'000. I do not have to say, that you can pay the access via your Skype Credit.

The second innovation, now exclusive for Mac users, is the new built in Screen Sharing, which is actually only a desktop presentation. Anyway a great thing for us, since we to use until now plugins for screen sharing, such as the Yugma Team Collaboration.