November 2010
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Sit Back, Relax, and Enjoy the Ride
Apple’s level of success and customer adoration has created a fair amount of discomfort. As a technology steamliner, Apple is setting a record pace on the journey from one island of technologies (fixed, wired, physical media, isolated, expandable, hackable, moving parts, keyboard & mouse, open market) to another (mobile, wireless, media-less, connected, sealed appliance, “just...
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WP7 Strategy Confusion
I’m struggling to understand Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 strategy.
The WP7 ads make it clear that the current batch of smartphones are either ridiculously inefficient or annoyingly narcissistic and addictive. So, these new WP7 phones are for people who don’t want to spend much time on their phones.
But why would a potential customer pay for a two hundred dollar phone — plus...
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MobileMe Calendar Upgrade
I didn’t realize that you actually have to log in to me.com to upgrade the MobileMe calendar, so I’ve been loping along with the old calendar for too long. The upgrade process had a few hair-raising moments, like the “add these 782 calendar items?” sync alert and the “you’ve got a lot of calendar events, so you’ll get the old ones back when we’ve...