Apple’s Strategy
- Release software updates that make existing hardware seem slow, while adding features that should have already been present.
- At the same time, release new hardware that can actually handle the software updates.
- Repeat yearly.
- Profit.
Why would you need a magnetic stripe to swipe credit cards? I thought there was an app for that?
Marketing Tip #3
If you want instant visibility for your brand, design your logo almost exactly like something that is famous. For example, Apple! I wish we had used an apple for our logo. Ours will be Golden Delicious with a bit on the left hand side. Completely different than the Macintosh apple with bite on the right. So really not stealing.
Imagine the media attention we’ll receive from that…Instant visibility!
Ars’ iPod Nano Design History (via maniacalrage).
I love how they conveniently left out the hideous third-generation “fat” model. We’d all like to forget it.
Is there a way to donate old generation iPods to kids in Africa or someplace? There are so many generations coming out that the old ones don’t have enough time to not work.
Note to blog experts on any subject, when you’re putting a how-to-do guide out for the masses to consume, make sure to release it on-time. iTunes 9 came out a few days ago and most of us have already managed to screw something up. And then NOW this guide comes out. Sheesh!
iPhone 3.1 is out. Go be learn-ED!
On a side note, to update iTunes 9.1…you need the latest security update, latest Quicktime and latest Safari. Sheesh!!
By the time you’re done with all this, iPhone 4G an iTunes 10.0 will be out.
Not really a convincing argument as to why Apple and AT&T will keep sleeping together. I think Apple will adopt the Mormon faith and be in bed with several companies at the same time.
— M.F. Power (on mac users’ arrogance)
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Apple CEO STEVE JOBS, returning to the stage to unveil the newest iPod, among other things, more than three months after taking medical leave. “I now have the liver of a mid-20’s person who died in a car crash and was generous enough to donate their organs,” he added. He wore jeans and a black turtleneck, natch. (via inothernews)
When we re-release our new site, I’m going to pretend I’m sick and disappear for a while. Right before we release, I’ll come out of nowhere and BAM…stock prices go up!
