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...Macintosh users and PINE users are not affected by Klez...
...operating system, OS X, is the sleekest, most stable, most intuitive consumer OS ever made. Every reviewer in the computer trade press swoons over its hardware—the iBook, the Titanium PowerBook, and especially the new iMac. And its software strategy, built around the Macintosh as a “digital hub,” has produced a string of successful, free multimedia applications like iTunes and iPhoto. The result: despite a meager market share of 4.5 percent, Apple, like Dell, actually made a profit selling PCs last year, something none of the other, more conventionally led companies...
...quiet Sunday morning in Silicon Valley, I am standing atop a machine code-named Ginger--a machine that may be the most eagerly awaited and wildly, if inadvertently, hyped high-tech product since the Apple Macintosh. Fifty feet away, Ginger's diminutive inventor, Dean Kamen, is offering instruction on how to use it, which in this case means waving his hands and barking out orders...
...answer that question, we need to look to the history of invention and to the notoriously difficult study of the diffusion of innovations. Often lost in the study of such things is the fact that for every Model T, Apple Macintosh or DVD, there are 10 failures, like the Edsel, the Commodore 64 and the Laserdisc. By analyzing the path that successful technologies take to acceptance and the roadblocks that stymie the failures, we can at least hazard a guess about the Segway...
...quiet Sunday morning in Silicon Valley, I am standing atop a machine code-named Ginger - a machine that may be the most eagerly awaited and wildly, if inadvertently, hyped high-tech product since the Apple Macintosh. Fifty feet away, Ginger's diminutive inventor, Dean Kamen, is offering instruction on how to use it, which in this case means waving his hands and barking out orders...