Apple Adds Video Camera To iPod Nano, Cuts Prices For iPod Touch http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/09… Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled new features for the iPod Nano and price cuts for other iPods during a media event Wednesday in San Francisco. The new iPod Nano now sports a video camera, among other things. Apple has been known to cut prices in advance of a new offering, and with the holiday shopping season around the corner,...

John Gruber writes the most insightful piece on Microsoft’s new campaign, but most specifically what has been, and I agree, a fatal misstep.Daring Fireball: There’s Nothing There The problem Microsoft faces today is that they have nothing to hang their brand on. Windows is Windows, so colossal it exists in its own orbit. (If anything, the problem Microsoft faces with Windows is the problem Apple faced a decade ago with the Mac,...

David Murphy Like hundreds of thousands of people across the country, I stood in line last weekend at the Apple Store in Newport Beach, Calif., to buy the new iPhone 3G for my daughter after three unsuccessful attempts at nearby AT&T stores. Witnessing this exuberant demand for a new product made me wonder if this feat could be repeated in other categories, such as the auto business. What would an automaker have to do to...

Apple’s retail market share is 14 percent, and two-thirds for PCs costing $1000 or more. Should I repeat those numbers? The share data is for first-quarter brick-and-mortar stores, as tabulated by the NPD Group. Apple’s market share is but one measure of success. Sales growth is way up, while Windows desktop PC sales are way down. Daring Fireball BUY BUY BUY! Blogged with the Flock...

It’s not often you come across an article quite like this one. It says a lot about why Apple is so successful these last few years. And it’s not just about design, anyone can copy the iPod’s coolness…anyone!  But when a company’s culture is so incredibly different from it’s competition you can’t help but to notice, and to buy. Click the image to read more from the NYT....