Articles tagged with 'apple':
Now that the gap between information being somewhere and information being everywhere is infinitesimally small, we reward companies who have information first, even when that information isn't very good. We reward them by reading their terrible news...
read more ⇒The new Mac Pro announced at WWDC is the first in a series of new Mac hardware to be inspired by Heineken. Jim Dalrymple, who replaces Jony Ive as the SVP of Industrial Design at Apple, revealed the design inspiration in a series of slides.
Google's services are "sticky", resistant to change. People who use a Google service often want to continue to do so and choose related services and devices at least in part on their compatibility with those services.
For instance, heavy users of Gmail would be less likely to buy a mobile phone that just won't work with Gmail, because that would make it difficult to send and receive email on a service they have used for years and value.
Apple services (iCloud, Maps, etc) have some stickiness, but it's not as strong, which makes it easier for users of those services to switch services, and potentially to adopt products that aren't tied into Apple's ecosystem, like an Android phone.
read more ⇒John Gruber notes that we rarely see reviews of products after they've been used for an extensive period of time:
It shouldn’t be that surprising that a $200 device isn’t built all that well. What should be surprising is analysts and pundits who automatically assume a low price means a winner.
That's true. Actually, a lot of reviews are on the basis of a very short period of examination, or possibly even just on the basis of reviewing the literature about the product.
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