Archive for the 'Apple' Category
Regardless of what you think about Apple’s Steve Jobs dropping the price of an iPhone by $200 two months after its launch and two months before Christmas… the reaction by Nokia was swift and suggests what to expect from advertising in years to come.
TV, historically the best medium to reach the masses, is slow. Case […]
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Pretty nice of this site to offer Apple consumers info on options they have to get some of the $200 back, but why should early adopters be entitled to a refund 2 months after they bought an item?
I’m pretty sure the bakery next to our office is selling today’s bread at a discount tomorrow, you […]
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Fake Steve Jobs chimes in on the Apple iTunes vs. NBC brouhaha last week with some insight into why TV is doomed.
Reading it, you get a sense that the real Steve Jobs feels somewhat similar:
[Y]ou run a television network. Now let’s think about this. What the f*ck is a television network? It’s a system of […]
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A tale of two different companies:
According to MacWorld:
In an ongoing alteration of the consumer PC landscape, Apple laptop sales have surged to a new all-time high over the past 90 days - up from 12 per cent in June to 17 per cent currently. Apple desktop sales (7 per cent; down from 8 per […]
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Fake Steve Jobs sat down with CNET and grant them an exclusive interview.
CNET itself asks if Fake Steve is Nick Denton… I asked what if Fake Steve was real Steve? I think it might be Nick, after all he did just hire Owen Thomas of Business 2.0 to take over Silicon Valley rag Valleywag even though […]
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Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Jul 4th
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Apparently, iPhone had a 1M milestone target for unit sales of its iPhone. Even though it sold anywhere from 200,000 to 700,000 units (all right, how useless are analysts looking right now? more on that below), it missed its mark by quite a bit:
“There’s a lot of rejoicing at Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile,” says IAG […]
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You should always be careful managing your dominance in any industry. At my old company, we held a 35% market share in the publishing of men’s lifestyle content, like a moth to a fly, that drew competitors. We were publishing content, content is hard to overtake in the sense that all the money in the world […]
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Today Google announced its acquisition of Grand Central Commincations. This past weekend, Apple launched its all in one phone. Is this really the trend of the future?
Over the past few days, everyone, and it does feel like everyone, had posted on how much or how little the iPhone will revolutionize and take over the wireless industry. […]
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The average life span of a cell phone, in America, is just under two years, and in countries like Asia, it’s about 3 months, or so says Jeremy Toeman, who took a few of the Apple boosters to task for their very bullish calls on Apple’s potential grip on the wireless space.
I commented on some […]
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Now that the Jesus Phone has descended onto earth, the question is how much will iPhone impact the wireless industry. Clearly, Steve Jobs did not enter the market to be a mere asterix in it, but is the conventional wisdom that the iPhone will do to the wireless industry what the iPod did to the […]
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