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Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t use focus groups
Steve Jobs layin’ down some knowledge: “It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fooling people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t. We figure out what we want. And I think we’re pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates parodied in hilarious cartoon [Video]
Friday, August 7, 2009
This might very well be the funniest Mac related video ever done. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates battle it out in an “I’m a Mac” backdrop, with a hilarious cameo appearance by the Finder. Unbelievably well done, and well worth checking out.
Continue reading...12 years ago today, Apple and Microsoft made amends, sort of [Video]
Thursday, August 6, 2009
12 years ago today, Steve Jobs delivered a keynote in Boston where he announced a number of new initiatives with its ole’ rival Microsoft and an end to the legal battle over Apple’s allegations that Microsoft illegally copied the “look and feel” of the Mac OS. In the video below, a non-turtleneck clad Jobs announced […]
Continue reading...Apple finally bans dumbass and shady developer from the iPhone app store for copyright infringement
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
With over 65,000 apps and growing, the iTunes App Store has a commanding lead over competing app stores. But its large library of apps also makes navigating around and finding quality apps an increasingly tougher task for iPhone users. The iTunes App Store has been likened to a gold rush, and as such, it’s filled […]
Continue reading...The iPhone/App store puts iPod/iTunes growth to shame [Graphs]
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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Chi-Hua Chien of KPCB, the venture capital firm behind the $100 Million iFund initiative, came up with some interesting graphs which illustrate how much more quickly the rate of growth has been for the iPhone and the iTunes App Store compared to the iPod and iTunes Music Store. The differences are staggering. Kleiner Perkins iFund […]
Continue reading...Why Microsoft and Steve Ballmer just don’t get it
Friday, July 31, 2009
At a Microsoft Financial Analyst meeting yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer demonstrated, yet again, that he still doesn’t get, or perhaps is unwilling to admit, why people are ditching PC’s and flocking to the Mac in droves. While looking out into a sea of reporters and analysts, Ballmer noticed the number of computers sporting an […]
Continue reading...Why Psystar can’t do whatever it wants with copies of OS X
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Psystar, the company Apple’s suing for illegally selling non-Apple hardware running OS X, issued a statement yesterday announcing that it had hired a new law firm, and that they’re looking forward to answering Apple’s legal challenges head on. Included in the statement is an attempt by Psystar to defend its actions. Everyone here values openness. […]
Continue reading...Apple TV as a Gaming Platform – Why it doesn’t make sense.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Two weeks ago, Michael Pachter, an analyst at Weedbush Morgan, laid out a case that would see Apple transforming its just-good-enough-to-stay-afloat Apple TV into a full-fledged gaming console. Building on the immense popularity of the iPhone as a handheld gaming device, Pachter predicts that it’s only a matter of time before Apple makes a play […]
Continue reading...Apple and Record Companies look to create interactive Albums to encourage full-length album downloads, and here’s why it’s a great idea
Monday, July 27, 2009
In an effort to boost high margin digital music sales, and perhaps convince the few remaining hipsters¹ out there to migrate over to iTunes, Apple is working with the big 4 record companies to establish downloadable and interactive booklets that would be bundled with full album purchases on iTunes. According to a report in the […]
Continue reading...Microsoft to copy Apple Store design, will include “Guru Bar”
Saturday, July 25, 2009
With Microsoft copying Apple lock and step, it’s like 1995 all over again. In the latest piece of un-innovation from Redmond, a leaked presentation from the consulting company Microsoft hired to help it design and layout its upcoming retail stores indicates that Ballmer and co. are looking to copy the layout and feel of Apple […]
Continue reading...The “Genius” of Rob Enderle, and the myth of Apple marketing
Thursday, July 23, 2009
In his latest article, Enderle writes: Apple is a marketing-driven company — something unique in the technology segment — while Microsoft has largely been engineering-driven. During the 90s, this was actually more of an Apple liability than an asset, because Apple was being run by people who clearly didn’t get Apple’s unique capability. Steve Jobs […]
Continue reading...Daily Show riffs on Pull My Finger v. iFart Mobile court case [Video]
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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In case you missed it, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart riffed on the pending lawsuit between Eric Stratton (the developer of the Pull My Finger iPhone app) and Joel Comm, one of the guys behind the immensely popular iFart Mobile app. Stratton claims that iFart Mobile ripped off his idea and illegally misappropriated the […]
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Monday, August 10, 2009
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