Thursday, November 5, 2009
The Man Who Named the iMac and Wrote “Think Different”
Meet Ken Segall–the man who dreamed up the name “iMac” and wrote the famous Think Different campaign.
Meet Ken Segall–the man who dreamed up the name “iMac” and wrote the famous Think Different campaign.
With Apple posting record profits last week, thanks in large part to brisk sales of its iPhone, it may seem downright crazy to mount a smartphone challenge at all, let alone one that takes direct aim at the iPhone.
There is absolutely nothing coincidental about Apple launching new products today.
If the iPhone is the “Jesus phone,” it now appears as if the still-sheathed Apple tablet may become the “Jesus reader.”
Steve Demeter seems like the perfect poster boy for Apple.
Despite Apple’s investments in developing its own custom ARM microchips in place of using Intel’s Atom mobile processors, the company has reached out to Intel as a partner to drive the adoption of the new Light Peak specification for optical cabling.
I feel a large dose of schadenfreude whenever iPhone users get dropped in the middle of their calls with me.
And then there were five–defections from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its climate-change policy, that is.
Apple today resigned its membership in the Chamber “effective immediately.” That’s a harsher tone than the other departures–three utilities said they’d let their membership lapse at the end of the year, and Nike simply quite the Chamber’s board of directors.
Pizza Hut’s iPhone app will be featured in an Apple-sponsored iPhone commercial breaking tonight.
As iPod sales ease, the company is focusing more and more on software–to the dismay of the record labels
TV Everywhere is a concept put out by TV distributors that basically says that if you pay for cable or satellite, you should be able to watch the content you want, where you want. Everywhere. To some people this is not a good idea.
Tomorrow’s crisis today: Apple’s critics haven’t yet realized that the iPhone App Store has fueled millions in software development efforts to produce content exclusively tied to the company’s proprietary Cocoa Touch mobile platform.
The new iPod nano is a tour de force, the Swiss Army Knife of mobile entertainment. I’m sure there’s some obscure gadget from Japan that packs more features per cubic millimeter, but I’ve never heard of it, and chances are neither have you.
The “iTunes LP” is just one of the many new iTunes features revealed yesterday during Apple’s announcement. But the iTunes LP, unlike the other new features which get to exist as simple and fun enhancements in iTunes 9, has a heavy burden on its shoulders.
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