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QuickTime chip speculation off the block?

Apple’s research and development teams are certainly considering ways in which they can engage the processor design expertise recently bought in-house on strength of the PA Semi purchase.

“PA Semi is going to do system-on-chips for iPhones and iPods,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs told the New York Times in June – but the Apple rumpur machine has already moved into overdrive, with the most recent speculation claiming the company’s boffins are now looking to develop a small processor that would be capable of QuickTime encoding and decoding.

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Apple product names are simple and easy to remember and differentiate.

Over at Computerworld, I did a quickie on Apple’s product names being so much better than their competitors.

Would you rather have an XPS-420 or a MacPro?

a Toshiba G900 or an iPhone 8Gb?

a Sandisk e270 Mp3 Player or an iPod Nano?

an Apple Airport Extreme or Linksys WRT54G? (OK, I’m not sure about this one- DD-WRT FTW – but you get the point)

With a Big. Simple. True. (as the folks at Wolff Olins used to say) naming strategy, Apple is already a step ahead of its competition – before the customer even sees the products.

Apple’s not-so-secret branding advantage

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Apple "Analysts" don't seem to be very good

So doing the last post, we had to do some research on Shaw Wu an Analyst for American Technology Research who had made a bad call on the numbers of iPhone unlocking. Thankfully, MacRumors has put together a list of Shaw’s predictions and their subsequent  "truthieness".  He’s riding about 15% correct…which is like picking horses at the track based on their names.   Given all of this, he has a 4/5 star rating from Yahoo and many people make investment decisions based on his guidance.   Some of the better ones (from Macrumors):

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iPhone, iMac win world-class design award

Apple has taken two of the world creative industry’s most-coveted awards, a pair of Black Pencils from the D&AD, one for the iMac, another for the iPhone.

The D&AD winners were announced at an awards ceremony held in London tonight, on 15 May. Apple’s a regular winner at these events, taking two of the slightly less-coveted Yellow Pencils in 2006 (for the iPod’s video and nano). 

In 2005, Apple’s head of industrial design Jonathan Ive won his own award, a special one made in recognition of his world-class achievements in design, the D&AD President’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Industry. Apple’s iPod,iPod mini and Cinema Display took Yellow Pencil awards in the same year. 

In 2004, Apple again won a Yellow Pencil, this time for the PowerBook. Before this, Apple had won at least one award every year since 1999.