Posts Tagged ‘retail’

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How Does ‘Incremental’ Define Apple?

It’s the question to answer based on comments I received to yesterday’s post about Apple CEO Steve Job’s return from medical leave. Some commenters scolded me—OK, one said I should commit suicide—for the tone of the post. Many others asserted that Apple has always improved products incrementally.

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Netbook US Retail Share Nears 20 Percent

I’ve been helping my father-in-law shop for a laptop for his son, so they can do video calls over Skype. But I can’t find a really good deal on a notebook. Is it my imagination, or have prices gone, gulp, up? Earlier today, I asked Stephen Baker, NPD’s vice president of industry analysis, that question.

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Windows 7 Begins 3-Month Countdown to RTM

Microsoft has officially declared what everyone should have expected. Windows 7 will ship for holiday 2009.