Like many of you, I have family and friends on the east coast currently buckled down for the storm of the decade. While thanking our lucky stars we don’t share the same timezone, my wife and I felt an minor 4.0 trembler that reminded us that no place is without risks. The same tremors were […]
In a week where presidential candidates faced off on the policies that shape America’s interactions with the rest of the world, the whole world was focused on two different events, Apple’s subtle launch of the “condensed” iPad Mini and Microsoft’s much maligned release of Windows 8. Much the way pollsters pester us prolifically with prodding […]
Growing up, my grandparents had a match pair of apple head dolls next to their fireplace. I always thought the wizened heads were amazing. When I tried to replicate the process of carving and then drying the apple the result was an ant infested rotten apple. Which path is Apple headed down and can they recover? Our […]
Wired magazine has a great article about the recent exodus/exorcism of Kindle from their shelves in Dumped by Walmart, Amazon Should Fear Other Frenemies. This is part of a bigger shift taking place in consumer electronics and bleeding over into other categories as well. When Apple opened their retail stores, they started the process of cutting out […]
While there’s little surprise that the iPhone 5 has already sold out near term inventories, what is a surprise is how much more the public was engaged with the iPhone 5 launch over the iPhone 4s launch. Much has been written on the mixed response of the market to the iPhone 5 but little as […]
We’ve been tracking the iPhone 5 launch craze for a few weeks now. With probably more buzz than an election campaign, the iPhone buzz volumes (Twitter alone) for the iPhone 5 peaked at over 20,000 per minute when the iPhone was first unveiled. Prior to launch, what were people talking about? What was driving the […]