Go now and ponder

"Yet the Journal neglected a more important point: There's nothing forcing Apple to manufacture the iPhone abroad. The ADBI researchers estimate that Apple's gross profit margin on iPhones in 2009 was a whopping 64 percent. This leads them to conclude that "profit maximization behavior," and not competition, is what's driving Apple to China. In other words, Apple would rather make a little bit more money than employ more Americans."


via MoJo

Why are mommy and daddy fighting?

As of this morning, I no longer get NBC programming on my cable box. And neither do a few hundred thousand other Austin customers of Time Warner Cable. Apparently, the corporation who owns the local affiliate is engaged in brinkmanship with Time Warner over their long term contract. It's sad, really.

Sad, because neither can win. Even if they reach an agreement, and KXAN extracts a few extra million dollars from the TWC, both business models are headed for the landfills of history. And these antics are pushing a bunch of us to Hulu, iTunes, or worse, the 'rents. Or even worse, farther away from television altogether, accelerating their demise.