"A source familiar with Apple"

Brilliant, short and funny piece by Dr. Drang. Read it.

Asymco's Fiscal Q1 2013 Estimate

An honest post by the always thoughtful Horace Dediu on Apple's first fiscal quarter of 2013. Horace finishes with his estimates, but the real story is in the lead up where he lays out the questions that make the quarter so difficult to predict.

Samsung Joins the Big Boys

MG Siegler writing for TechCrunch about why Samsung deserves to mentioned along side Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google.

But trying to suggest that Samsung is not one of the most important companies in technology is increasingly folly. In fact, there’s a decent chance that it will end up being the most important tech company of 2013.

A Slow Start

Paul Thurrott on the sales of Windows 8 PCs during the holidays.

A very smart article.

"Whoa"

Neven Mrgan posted a short, but great, story to his tumblr on Wednesday about a recent movie experience he had around Christmas. The story is great and it really does make you think about how we are treated as customers.

Hat tip to Daring Fireball

Apple Devices Are Used

Chuck Skoda penned a brief post today on his technochocolate blog about device usage. I agree completely with his observation.

Do Not Disturb 2013

Well, we've entered a new year, and just like clockwork there's a fun iOS date related bug waiting for everyone who uses iOS 6. It seems 'Do Not Disturb" is taking it's job a little to seriously this year. Apple has posted a support article addressing the issue. The situation will work itself out magically after January 7th.

Apple now has pushed, incremental updates available for all iOS devices running current software. What's the point if they won't push out a simple 6.0.2 update to fix an obvious bug?

2012: The Final Gasp of the Netbook

John Gruber goes off on the netbook concept today with multiple posts here, here, here, here and here.

I think it's fair to say Apple's inventing the modern tablet with the iPad and the subsequent entries by other manufacturers is largely responsible. I'm happy to say my only experience using a netbook was laughing as I tried them in stores. Saving a few bucks should never be worth that kind of frustration.

Goodbye Verizon (or AT&T, Sprint, etc.)

This is not what you're thinking. I hate all the carriers for one reason or another, but I'm not leaving Verizon any time soon. Since the iPhone was first introduced, it's bothered me that my carrier gets a prominent and pointless advertising spot on the top of my display. I know I have Verizon service (and AT&T before that). Seeing their name next to the signal strength does nothing for me.

AppAdvice has a great post today to help you replace your carrier name with a fun symbol, or as I chose to do, nothing at all.