Tag Archives: iphone

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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11/08/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, New Zealand, Society 8 Comments

Is the iPhone really responsible for this?

By Ben Kepes

Over on Geekzone Mauricio reports an astounding July audited traffic increase of over 25% in total traffic and over 45% local traffic. Now those in the know will realise that July was also the month that New Zealand users got access to legitimate iPhones. Mauricio apparently puts the bulk of

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14/07/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, Strategy Leave a comment

Is the gPhone back on the cards?

By Ben Kepes

This week has all been about the iPhone – whether it was hyperbole about the pricing of plans, excitement over the new apps or general fan boy talk about uber design – not much made news that wasn’t iPhone related. One thing that didn’t garner the attention it could have

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26/06/2008 Posted in Design, IT, New Zealand 6 Comments

Who said it’s all about the iPhone?

By Ben Kepes

Nick posted about the new HTC offering that could very well eat (at least some of) Apple’s lunch. Sporting WCDMA which should be rolled out in New Zealand by the end of the year, the HTC Touch diamond is a pretty sexy unit. It’s Tri-band, it’s got WiFi, coverflow (in

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10/06/2008 Posted in Compliance, Design, IT, Strategy Leave a comment

iPhone maximum price, data plans and contracts…

By Ben Kepes

There been a lot (actually a huge amount) of talk about the iPhone 2. But the pricing and contract situation caught my eye. Firstly I have some queries about the “USD199 maximum worldwide” promise. For a start, and in New Zealand at least, it is against the law for a

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09/06/2008 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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03/06/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Android – people are missing the point.

By The Unreasonablemen

A Guest post from the unreasonablemen.net There has been a bunch of commentary about Google’s mobile platform Android. Most commentators seem to be banging on about how it is going after the Apple iPhone (R/WW seems to be fixated on this aspect). This analysis misses the point. Of course Android

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13/05/2008 Posted in Design, IT 3 Comments

A new Blackberry and some new offerings – nah iPhone for me…

By Ben Kepes

Firstly I need to say that I’m not in the camp that heralds the iPhone as a world changing, cure for cancer sort of a device. I do however think it’s cool, and now that enterprise users are seeing the functionality that they need, there is no reason to think

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04/04/2008 Posted in Design, IT, New business, SaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

Xero, SaaSu and….. Apple

By Ben Kepes

I read a post from SaaSu today which had a link to a video showing off the joys of their SaaS accounting product on an iPod touch. Their latest released has been sorted to work sweet on the iPhone/iTouch. What is interesting is flicking back to a post from Rod

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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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