Thoughts on Apple ‘Antennagate’ Press Conference: Apple throws Blackberry, Nokia, Samsung under bus
AppleInsider | RIM, Nokia respond to Apples “Antennagate” press conference Clearly, Steve Jobs is pissed. I would be, too. You pour thousands of hours collectively into a project like this and you want people to just use the damned thing, enjoy it, and have it change their lives on some level. That the media has [...]
KFC Double-Down is not the most disgusting thing you could eat today
On FiveThirtyEight: Double Down by the Numbers: Unhealthiest Sandwich Ever? No, no it’s not the most disgusting thing you could eat today, but it’s still tremendously disgusting. Insofar as it’s a reach to find anything surprising here, I suppose I’m chewing on the point that the Big Mac is, in fact, less disgusting than the [...]
The Future of Greed in America
I know, I must have been like this as a kid. I remember getting my first Yamaha B600 keyboard from Santa when I was a kid. I think I passed out. But take a look at what product scarcity has done to 50 kids on Christmas morning:
Microsoft and Seinfeld: “New Family” Ad Goes Live
Ad #2. I love the dinner conversation. The grandmother is oddly appealing. Oh, and it’s wildly insulting to everyday people. Wonder what the strategy is there?
Apple WWDC Keynote, iPhone3G, and Snow Leopard
Steve Jobs can do what he damn well pleases, thank you very much. If he — and team Apple — demonstrated anything in yesterday’s WWDC Keynote address, it’s that. Because frankly, they took their stage time yesterday to demonstrate a whole lot of old news, and they buried the hidden gems. WWDC Keynote Snooze Part [...]
Apollo Group says verdict won’t have affect on business — misses point entirely
Apollo Group leadership thumbs their collective nose at the courts, saying that the $277.7 million verdict against them “will not have a material adverse affect on its business or cash flows.” While it’s thrilling that the company has enough cash to cover the bond and the finding, investors should note: the company has likely learned [...]
Apple.com: Robert Lang profile “The Art and Science of Paper Folding”
My daughter Sophie is currently enrolled in a Chinese language immersion school. She’s in kindergarten now and her teachers have started introducing the kids to simple oragami projects for crafts time. Then, in a sweet bit of synchronicity, her godfather received a book on some creative origami projects that you can make out of dollar [...]
Proof that MySpace has Jumped the Shark: Axia College MySpace Page
Axia College of University of Phoenix MySpace PageI haven’t posted much about my experience at University of Phoenix. It’s a big place with many challenges and, even with nearly a decade under my belt there, I’m ill equipped to comment on most of them. But I find this one downright funny.About six months ago the [...]
Radiohead Retraction
Wow. Did I ever misjudge this band. I hereby take it back — almost everything I said about them a few weeks back.If you’re not following the Radiohead saga, several weeks ago, the band made news when they announced they would not sell their new album on iTunes because the store refuses to sell albums [...]
New iPod Classic Busts Apple’s Product Introduction Scheme
For years, Apple’s made waves by wholly replacing successful products with radical revisions that truly evolve the product line. Today’s “Classic” announcement is an interesting departure. I’d fully expected the company to discontinue the current larger iPod with Video in favor of an iPhone-form factor phoneless iPod. They did introduce the phoneless iPod, the iPod [...]
My WIRED Cover
About three months ago, I ripped the shrink wrap off my monthly WIRED magazine and found a note from the publisher. They were doing a special run in partnership with XEROX around a piece on hyper-personalization on the web. If I was one of the first 5,000, the note said, to send in a picture [...]
FM, Valleywag, Arrington, and Microsoft: A rose by any other name…
About two years ago, before I joined the communications department, we were approached by an agency pushing us to have their bloggers for hire go out and start blogging positive mojo about our then-new educational asset, Axia College. The original pitch was just that: bloggers, who aren’t our students, telling the blogosphere, MySpace-dom, Facebook-hood, and [...]
Why Apple’s iPhone Advertising Campaign is Mad Brilliant
On June 29th, Apple will launch their next great evolution. The iPhone will hit Apple and AT&T Wireless stores with great hoopla at 6:00 p.m. and the world market for handheld devices will change again. This is what Apple does — change market dynamics. But there’s raw beauty in the iPhone campaign that comes from [...]
