When Samsung looks at what materials to use, it isn’t just taking into consideration the aesthetic quality of the device, Lee said. The company also assesses how quickly and efficiently it can manufacture the product, knowing that it will have to ship a high volume.
So, if you want a quality device with high-end materials, buy an iPhone. Got it.
I’m happy to say that I’m heading back to Dublin, Ireland to speak at the Ull Conference in April. You can find out more information and buy tickets at the conference Web site.
I had a chance to use the new version before it was released today and really liked it. I didn’t figure it would find much on my system, but it cleaned up 6GB of garbage from my computer.
Okay, I want one of these too.
Ferrari, which today unveiled the 1 million euro hybrid model “LaFerrari,” is in talks with Apple about broadening a partnership on in-car entertainment, Di Montezemolo said today at the Geneva motor show. The new four-seater Ferrari model includes mini i-Pads on the passenger seats. Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice president overseeing online services, joined the Ferrari board last year.
This is great news for when I get my Ferrari.
I can understand how some parents would be upset if Apple didn’t have some kind of controls to limit the use of the iPhone and iPad, but the fact is they do.
I read Sarah Perez’s story on TechCrunch “Apple’s iPad Needs A Kid Mode. Like, Yesterday” and was kind of amazed at how much blame was put on Apple.
The simple fact is, as parents, it’s up to us to monitor what our kids do with technology or any toy. If you choose not to use the included controls because they are a hassle, then that’s your choice. You made that decision.
Apple’s built-in controls allow the parent to disable Web surfing, the ability to watch movies or TV shows, deny the ability for purchases including in-app purchases, you can even disable a child’s ability to install or delete apps.
Apple provides more controls than most of the toys our kids play with. What’s next, are we going to call Crayola because the kids colored the wall with crayons?
If this doesn’t tug at your heart, nothing will. Be sure to watch to the end.
Leverage. Tech-savvy. Curating. Phenomenon. These are a few randomly-picked words that will make someone’s brain stop mid-sentence. In fact, just read a pitch and imagine you’re talking to a 12-year-old who might care a little about what you’re doing but owes you nothing. That’s about the attention span you can expect from a blogger or reporter who is getting 300-500 emails a day.
Several years ago I got an absolutely wretched pitch from a PR person, and rather than just deleting it and moving on, I critiqued it and sent it back to him. Apparently he fired it up the chain of command to the company CEO, who cc:’d me (accidentally, it turned out) and complained that “this is why we never pitch to the Mac press, those people are too picky.”
So it’s worth pointing out that a lousy pitch isn’t always the PR person’s fault. There’s often pressure on them from above, from some pointy-haired manager’s office (include the CEO’s) to bury their lead in the weeds of buzzwords and industry jargon.
Still, good food for thought for PR people looking to more effectively hone their craft. (And, worth noting, put on my radar from one of my favorite commies in the business.)
Having the right color scheme is so important. I’ve visited Web sites that were designed well, but the colors were just horrible. It ruins the experience.
This is what happens when Canadians leave their igloos in the spring.
At an event at the University of Arizona’s Department of Marketing, former Apple advertising lead Ken Segall has shared some additional details into the naming behind Apple’s massively popular smartphone. While Apple ended up calling its industry-changing smartphone the “iPhone,” Apple considered a few other names.
I’m glad they went with iPhone.
The people you follow will be shown in your buddy list. Double clicking one will open a new chat window and start a new private messaging session like you would see on Omega. Sending and receiving messages happen very fast, usually within a second. You can drag files into the chat window, and they will upload to your account’s App.net file storage and be sent as part of a message.
I haven’t tried it yet, but it sounds interesting.
Some good tips when starting a Web site design from scratch.
Napkin is the ultimate tool for concise visual communication. Painlessly create visual notes and diagrams and share the results quickly.
Very cool looking app from Guy English.
It’s always good to know if you’re having a problem with your Web site. Vigil can help you with that.
Okay, so the big news today on the Wall Street Journal is that Samsung is ramping up advertising ahead of a new product launch. That’s it, that’s the story.
You can go read that or you can watch pigs swimming, which I found more informative and entertaining than anything on WSJ lately.
A year-long study conducted by the Pew Research Center has confirmed what we’ve known all along: Twitter is a rotten cesspool of smug, cynical douchebags consistently trying to out-mean and one-up each other. Oh, had you not noticed?
Except readers of The Loop. You are all awesome.
Hey, Pew Research: If you want to pay me to spend a year figuring out where the rest of the assholes are on the Internet, drop me a line.
It’s not just Apple that has the problem.
“I think magazines are becoming passé. They’ll always be around for people who enjoy that coffee table copy of their favorite magazines, but for the most part I think print media is on its way out, including us for that matter.”
Easy for Larry Flynt to say. People don’t pay for porn anymore, it seems.
Responding to a petition on WhiteHouse.gov, the executive branch stated “The White House agrees with the 114,000+ of you who believe that consumers should be able to unlock their cell phones without risking criminal or other penalties.”
The FCC is already looking in to this, and the FCC chairman has said that making cellphone unlocking illegal, which happened January 26, “doesn’t pass the common sense test.”
Philip Elmer-Dewitt recaps the rise and fall of Andy Zaky.
I thought this was funny. They even put some funny text in the drop down menus.
What I cannot defend, however, is asshattery in the name of grammar.
Lexicographer Kory Stamper makes the plea for grammarians to be less douchey this National Grammar Day. I appreciate the sentiment, but feel like it’s asking people to say “Yarr” less on Talk Like A Pirate Day. This isn’t lost on Kory, who warns against “vigilante peeving” and encourages grammarians to use the day in positive ways.
“There’s so much malware on Android, you’d think it would be a huge deal,” Cobb says. And the growth of is “huge,” he added, “both in the number of malware exploits and their increasing sophistication. The rate of growth in Android malware is impressive, and scary.”
I joined Rene Ritchie last night to to talk about stupid Apple headlines going mainstream, journalistic responsibility, responsive design, what’s really challenging Apple, and vacationing down south in Montreal.
The story that The Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening once illustrated a brochure for Apple back in 1989 has been making the rounds of the internet for awhile now. However, in addition to that brochure, Groening did other artwork for Apple around that same time period.
A neat look back at the material Matt Groening worked on for Apple, back before Groening hit big with The Simpsons. At the time, he had indie cred as the creator (and publisher) of the Life In Hell comics, popular with the hip young kids listening to The Pixies and Robyn Hitchcock on their Walkmans. Apple drafted Groening to create a student brochure distributed on college campuses to encourage them to buy Macs, and he also worked with Apple on posters. Check it out.
While Tim Cook has dropped hints that Apple Inc. (AAPL) is hard at work on a television to drive the next era of growth, the company’s wristwatch-style device, still in development, may prove more profitable.
I wonder whether AAPL price will go up or down on the news that one unannounced product will be more profitable than another unannounced product.
Notice anything wrong with the Chromebook? Look closer.
Oh Google.
Houston called out iCloud’s “bizarre limitations,” saying that no iPhone or iPad user can easily share iCloud documents with an Android device.
I see iCloud and Dropbox as different types of services — maybe they shouldn’t be, but I think they are. There are plenty of things I could say that iCloud does better than Dropbox, but it wouldn’t make sense to do so. Just like this doesn’t make sense in a some ways.
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