Tag Archives: Apple

July 29, 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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July 27, 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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July 23, 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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June 26, 2008 Posted in Design, IT, Strategy Leave a comment

The battle royal will be mobile.

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest  post from the Unreasonablemen.net The announcement yesterday about Nokia’s acquisition of the rest of Symbian clearly draws the battle lines for a new age of competition. To me this strengthens my view about Google’s Android play. For those who suffer from Nick Carr’s internet driven attention disorder, I

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June 9, 2008 Posted in Design, Strategy 3 Comments

Apple iPhone – a RIM and Palm asset?

By Ben Kepes

A fascinating post over on Wired suggesting that the is of net benefit to the other smartphone/PDA manufacturers as it fills the role of raising the tide (and as we all know, a rising tide lifts all boats – well apart from those too tightly moored!). Key quote from the

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May 25, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, SaaS, Strategy 2 Comments

Can Microsoft be rebranded? or are they doomed to the position of ‘nerd’ forever?

By Julian Stone

Rod Drury wrote an interesting post over on his blog about what he would do if in charge of Microsoft. Have a read of the post – here’s the link: http://www.drury.net.nz/2008/05/24/if-i-was-in-charge-2/ But as much as I agree with nearly all his points, I wanted to expand on point number 15

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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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