The idea that Android is to the mobile space what Windows was to the PC space is an idea that crops up from time to time. My take on this is that the relationship between society and technology is too changed and too dynamic to make any one-to-one comparisons like that. Also, I assume Windows [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Letters to Brands'
We’re #1! Of the Worst!
July 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Letters to Brands
Oh my god! Another Apple/Antenna blog post! I just made your day. You’re welcome. Actually – this isn’t really about the iPhone antenna, at least not directly. Rather it’s about this page Apple put up today following their press conference. Every smartphone has a cellular antenna. And nearly every smartphone can lose signal strength if [...]
Toast indeed
June 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Letters to Brands
“For marketers … this is actually turning out, in my view, to be an ad-serving machine” – Kostas Mallios, Microsoft’s general manager for Strategy and Business Development Back in April, when Apple announced iAd as one of it’s “tent poles” of iOS4, I was pretty ready to just hold for Windows Mobile 7 and see [...]
A Very Sad Tiger
April 7th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Letters to Brands
A lot of people seem to think the latest Nike spot, effectively marking Wood’s return to Golf and the brand, is some kind of bold and daring piece. I have to disagree with these people. If you haven’t seen it, take a watch: While it has all the affectations of a serious and daring spot [...]
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My Magical Evening, Wherein I Spend 2 Hours with 4000 of my Closest Friends, Don’t See Dave Chappelle and Would do it all Over Again
July 15th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Letters to Brands
We’ll set aside for a second the fact that I showed up at Portland’s Pioneer Square at 11pm based on highly dubious reports of a surprise Dave Chappelle show at midnight, and that I waited packed in with 4000 drunk and high morons (but not you, you’re terrific) for 2 hours, and that I left [...]