Tag Archives: Apple

04/04/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Guy Kawasaki Enchants at SXSW

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written a few posts already (both here and elsewhere) about this years SXSW conference. In an ongoing occasional series I’m going to jot down some notes about standout sessions or panels – sometimes they stood out for the right reasons, and sometimes not so much. One panel that really

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02/07/2010 Posted in Just for fun 5 Comments

T Shirt Friday #49 – Google IO

By Ben Kepes

Despite a couple of thousand post blogging history, 13000 or so tweets and more trips between Silicon Valley and New Zealand than I’d care to admit – this was the first Google t shirt I received. So excited was I in fact that, despite not generally wearing black tees, I’ve kept this one in my very special favorite t shirt drawer.

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25/09/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, Strategy Leave a comment

Choice is a Damn Fine Thing!

By Ben Kepes

I posted a few days ago about a guy who created an iPhone app that competed with a native iPhone offering. Apple subsequently decided to withhold acceptance of his application – citing concerns about the competing nature of his offering. My post was under the guise of asking how Apple

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16/09/2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, Strategy 8 Comments

How can Apple get away with being evil?

By Ben Kepes

Heard the story of podcaster? Seems a guy had a great idea for an iPhone app – an app that allows the downloading of podcasts independently of iTunes – makes sense huh – allows the users to slice and dice it however they wish? Unfortunately that sort of slicing and

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21/08/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT 13 Comments

It was only a matter of time…

By Ben Kepes

For years Apple fanboys have been using the security benefits of using anything other than a Windows machine as justification for their dogmatic view around Apple products and services. Of late I’ve been hearing more reports of viruses specifically targeting the Apple operating system – surely this is a function

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09/08/2008 Posted in Business, IT, Society 3 Comments

Whatever happened to self-responsibility?

By Ben Kepes

So an aspiring artist offered an application on apple’s iTunes store "I Am Rich" for the not-inconsequential price of $999.99. The listing clearly stated that the application did nothing (beyond provide bragging rights de jour). A few people purchased the application and are now crying foul of the fact that

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04/08/2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Ouch MobileMe gets Scoble-roasted!

By Ben Kepes

El Jobso won’t be liking this – yep the Cupertino-kids, kings (usually) of execution get roasted by Scoble after his experience of having his calendar entries deleted by MobileMe. I’d be thinking that heads will be rolling down the alleys of Cupertino this week!

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29/07/2008 Posted in IT Leave a comment

El Jobso fighting fit…

By Ben Kepes

Apparently in a semi off-the-record interview with the New York Times, Apple CEO Steve Jobs disclosed that while he has some health concerns, they are not life threatening. Then, as if to prove he’s pretty much on usual form, he’s quoted as saying; This is Steve Jobs, you think I’m

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27/07/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 Leave a comment

MobileMe and LiveMesh staffers go head to head…

By Ben Kepes

It’s fun being on the sidelines watching this one! Steve Clayton from Microsoft was pretty chuffed to be able to blog about Apple’s MobileMe debacle. One could almost hear the glee in his words reporting that, for once something El Jobso touched didn’t turn to gold. He also got to

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23/07/2008 Posted in Business, IT, Strategy 3 Comments

On FanBoys and shots at tall poppies

By Ben Kepes

Hmmm – I’m a little reluctant to go here but what the heck. I love Apple products – they bring beautiful product engineering to smart software and wrap it all up in a lovely UI. I’d quite like a MacBookPro, would use an iPhone with abandon and wouldn’t be averse

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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