With the drop in price of the iPhone in its new 3G mode to the low, low price of $199, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was signaling that he was pricing them to move.

Or, as the old retail cliche goes: Stack them high and watch them fly.

But, from reports, even though the 2.0 version is obviously better (although I have yet to see one), I will not be doing that again when the new iPhone 3G comes out in a few weeks.

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What will be the news of how many Macs were sold in the recent quarter (2 million? More?!?), which will be revealed when Apple (AAPL) announces its earnings this afternoon?
And, even if sales are soaring, iPod sales don’t slow as much as expected and the 3G iPhone looks tasty, the stock still might not get [...]

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When last we checked in with NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker, he was merrily trashing Steve Jobs and Apple.
What a difference a three-month-long writers’ strike in Hollywood makes.
Yesterday, in an interview in the Financial Times, Zucker said: “We’ve said all along that we admire Apple, that we want to be in business with [...]

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The post I did yesterday on Universal Music Group head Doug Morris and his grumpy interview with Wired about digital issues got some interesting comments, all of which concluded that the veteran music exec had lost his marbles.
In the interview, Morris took aim at Apple’s popular music player and service, blamed college students for the [...]

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Doug Morris is still a very, very grumpy man about the digital arena.

We did not think it could get worse than NBC honcho Jeff Zucker (pictured here), who demanded a vig for every iPod sold because “Apple sold millions of dollars worth of hardware off the back of our content and made a lot of [...]

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What, oh what, can we say about the latest inane quote from yet another Hollywood mogul about Apple’s Steve Jobs and his hugely popular iTunes and iPod products.
The latest piece of hoo-ha comes from former Disney CEO Michael Eisner (pictured below), pointing a finger at Apple as the real villain in the ongoing strike between [...]

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Just as NBC Universal’s Hulu online video-sharing site debuted yesterday to decent reviews, including by BoomTown here, its CEO Jeff Zucker managed to fall all over himself to diss the digital media business.

Hooray for Hollywood!
In an interview with writer (and BoomTown friend!) Ken Auletta at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School, the voluble Zucker (pictured here) [...]

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How much do we love this Morse Code guy in the Arizona desert–Chuck Adams, who is the eighth fastest in the world–in this video of what is a dying breed: the tappy-tapping ur-geek:

And Lenovo tries to grow a global business against competitors like Acer, IBM and Dell, although there is also a rural PC for [...]

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John Paczkowski reads a lovely selection from Carly Fiorina’s appalling memoir, “Tough Choices”, about her clearly hostile feelings for former Compaq head Michael Capellas. The screamingly unhappy merger partner of the former Hewlett Packard chief, Capellas was named today as transaction processor First Data’s new CEO, despite the fact that Fiorina tried to strike a [...]

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Here is the entire interview Steve Jobs did with Walt Mossberg on May 30 at D5 in Carlsbad, Calif. For those who have not seen the Apple CEO in action, this is a good opportunity.
Among the wide range of topics: the iPhone, of course, and Jobs talked a lot about it; Apple growth since the [...]

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Yes, the countdown to Apple’s iPhone is on–that is, if you are a 30-something educated man with cash to spend.
Take a gander at the results of an online survey of U.S. customers below by Solutions Research Group.
Three-quarters of those “definitely interested” are men, and 94% are between 15 and 49 years old, with an average [...]

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