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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Apple'
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 [...]
Things I Liked (05.28.10)
May 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Stuff I Like
To attempt to balance the ratio of time I spend here talking about things I don’t like to those I do, I’m going to try an experiment: “Things I Liked” will be a weekly list of 5 things I enjoyed that week. We’ll see. BPGlobalPR Sometimes people ask me about the name of this site. [...]
Tags:Advertising·Apple·ethics·iPhone·journalism·society·Twitter
Punch the Monkey
April 9th, 2010 · 14 Comments · Advertising
The nice thing about dictatorships is that they get things done. There is no “in between” with a dictatorship like there is with a democracy, no compromise. In a way, this is what makes Apple great. Under Jobs, the direction of the brand has had a singular focus on producing his vision of great experiences [...]
Ways of Seeing the World
April 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Off Topic
This sheet, comparing the upcoming HP Slate to the iPad has been making the rounds for the last couple days and I think it says a lot about the difference in how HP, or their customers, see the world in contrast to Apple. Note that every aspect of each device that HP pulls out is [...]