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Choice is a Damn Fine Thing!

September 25, 2008

Business, Design, IT, Strategy

Android, Apple, google, iphone

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…

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How can Apple get away with being evil?

September 16, 2008

Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, Strategy

Apple, podcaster

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…

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It was only a matter of time…

August 21, 2008

Business, Design, IT

Apple, Mobileme

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…

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Whatever happened to self-responsibility?

August 9, 2008

Business, IT, Society

Apple, itunes

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…

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Ouch MobileMe gets Scoble-roasted!

August 4, 2008

Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Web x.0

Apple, Mobileme

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…

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El Jobso fighting fit…

July 29, 2008

IT

Apple, steve jobs

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,…

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MobileMe and LiveMesh staffers go head to head…

July 27, 2008

Business, Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0

Apple, cloud computing, Microsoft

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…

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On FanBoys and shots at tall poppies

July 23, 2008

Business, IT, Strategy

Apple, malware

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…

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The battle royal will be mobile.

June 26, 2008

Design, IT, Strategy

Apple, Microsoft, mobile, symbian

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…

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Apple iPhone – a RIM and Palm asset?

June 9, 2008

Design, Strategy

Apple, iphone, ipod, smartphone

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 –…

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