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Nice little chart from the great Horace Dediu. If you asked me what the most underrated aspect of Apple is today, I’d say it’s the speed at which iPad sales have grown. The iPhone took off fast, but the iPad has taken off way, way faster. ...

As usual, I would not bet against Jim. ★ 

Sweet video for a sweet notebook; effects all done in-camera. ★ 

Interesting contrast between the new CEOs of Apple and Sony. ★ 

Informative data visualization by Benedict Evans. ★ 

MG Siegler compares Apple’s profit-focused business approach to Amazon’s:As their dance with the dreaded red line proves, Amazon isn’t anywhere close to operating the way Walmart does yet. In fact, Amazon’s margins are so slim th...

$5 video-editing iPad app from Avid. No word on an Android version. ★ 

Nat Torkington:Tech Giant IPOs are like Royal Weddings: the people act nice but you know it’s a seething roiling pit of hate, greed, money, and desperation that goes on a bit too long so by the end you just want to put an angry chili-covere...

Eric Slivka, MacRumors:Apple’s share of the market hit 8.7% in the fourth quarter and registered at 6.0% for the full year. Steve Jobs famously noted during the iPhone’s 2007 introduction that Apple was shooting to take 1% of the mass...

Ben Rooney, writing for the WSJ:Presumably Mr. Browett interviews really, really well, and perhaps Apple CEO Tim Cook has yet to visit a PC World or Currys (Dixon’s face of retail in the U.K.), but the two retail experiences are poles apart.A...

I know the feeling. ★ 

Astute summary of last week’s show by Shawn Blanc.Similar take from Chris Foresman at Ars Technica, who summed the changes thus:As a tech journalist, Macworld has gradually become less interesting. As a user of Apple’s products and ...