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The End Of The iPhone Era
I wrote a post recently about how the Kyocera Zio would mark the turning point in the Android v. iPhone battle. Like a lot of my posts, I submitted it to Reddit, because I love Reddit. I didn’t convince everybody. iPhone buyers aren’t going to break their contracts and buy this lower-end phone. We all [...]
Posted in The Google Tagged Apple vs. Google Android, cheap Apple iPhone, iPhone retina display 8 Comments
The Kyocera Zio Will Be The Phone That Buries The iPhone
I like prepaid wireless. I like Google Android. I’m bearish on Apple and its future prospects. Android vs. Apple is Windows vs. Apple and it’s going to end the same way. The Kyocera Zio could be the last nail in the coffin. photo credit: Mads Boedker Face it — Android has all the good buzz. [...]
Google, Want To Sell More Nexus One Phones? Offer It On Boost Mobile.
When Google first offered its Nexus One phone for sale, it took a very different approach by not tying it to a specific carrier (though in reality is was essentially tied to T-Mobile). Unfortunately, T-Mobile already had a bunch of Android phones in its lineup (G1, My Touch) that the Nexus One had to compete [...]
Read Rework
Read Rework. I’ve told six people about this book today. I bought the book Tuesday afternoon, started reading it on the bus, went to the Cubs game, read some more at home afterward, and finished it this morning. It’s that good. It’s a dead-simple take on the business world written by 37signals founders Jason Fried [...]
Easy Implementation of Google Web Fonts
This week Google announced their new web font directory. Instead of relying on users to have special fonts or resorting to using images, Google makes font replacement super easy with their new open source tool. I’ve had moderate luck with sIFR in the past, but I like Google’s solution better. I implemented it on my [...]
CONFIRMED: iPads Are For The Elderly
An elderly California woman walks into an Apple store. She’s never owned a computer but has saved up $600 for an iPad. The grandmother pulls out a wad of cash and the cashier says: ‘Sorry, we don’t take cash [for iPads].’ Apple, come on! This is the iPad’s core market — cater to them. Read [...]
5 Business Lessons From Kitchen Nightmares and Gordon Ramsay
I love Fox’s Kitchen Nightmares because of its insight into humanity. Yeah, it’s fun to watch shows about food, but Gordon Ramsay’s show is about so much more than that. He’s not just a chef — he’s a psychologist. He needs to break people from their instinctive path and get them to change. He needs [...]
Posted in Business Tagged Gordon Ramsay business lessons, How to respond to business failures 5 Comments
Trix Are For Kids; iPads Are For Old Men
For a few months now, the old men of the media world have been telling us that the iPad is going to save newspapers and revolutionize media. Turns out, unsurprisingly, that these old men are the same people that have bought the thing (via Mashable). The public pitch was that the iPad was going to [...]
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