I’m really enjoying using the Amazon Kindle application on the iPod Touch. I’ve downloaded 3 books and read 1 full book and am halfway through the second. Reading books on an eReader is not something I thought I would really enjoy – at least not as much as I have so far. [...]
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Having a villain
I came across this interesting interview on business week today (hat tip to Matt), with a guy talking about Steve Job’s presentation style. There were some tips, including one that I’ve been toying with for some time, having a villain.
According to the article:
“In every classic story, the hero fights the villain. In 1984, the [...]
Spending in a downturn
Okay, I get it, we’re in a downturn. A recession or whatever you want to call it. Fine.
The question is what do you do to ensure long term success during a down turn? Our office had an interesting professor from IMD visit us and talk to us about macroeconomic trends and behaviour, basically [...]
Using exclusivity
Recently it was announced that both O2 in the UK and Rogers in Canada would lose their exclusivity around sales of the iPhone. So Orange, Vodafone in the UK and Telus and Bell in Canada will all have the right to sell the iPhone in their respective markets. My guess is that we’ll see [...]
Being open when you’re apple
While watching the Apple special event from last night I was really touched when Steve Jobs thanked the 20 something year old who had donated his organs and whose Liver he was the recipient for. He encouraged everyone to be an organ donor, something I would encourage everyone to do as well.
I wonder if [...]
Closed is a recipe for failure
I love my iPod touch, love using Skype on it, love playing games on it, checking my Yahoo! and Gmail, using all kinds of apps on it. But I’m upset that there’s so much potential for the iPod/iPhone devices that Apple’s stopping the users from getting.
Google voice has been rejected (and Eric [...]
The opposite of free
I was listening to a podcasts from This Week in Start Ups (TWIST) from Jason Calacanis. It was the first time I’d listened to one of his podcasts and probably won’t be the last. Don’t get me wrong it wasn’t revolutionary but it was thought provoking.
One of the thoughts I had was around [...]
Simple
While having breakfast with some friends, the question “What’s your favourite product from a design point of view of all time”. It was an interesting question and some of the answers were totally linked to people’s backgrounds and personality. My mate N said the book, a product that’s still used hundreds of years [...]
The iPhone is not just a phone
It’s a starter Mac.
I’ve had an iPod touch for about a month and a half now and I’m about to buy a Mac. Having had a Blackberry for over a year and a Windows mobile before that, and a Nokia for most of my adult mobile using life, I’ve tried all the different major handsets [...]
Distribution, product, service all trump marketing
I’ve worked in marketing. I understand marketing. I like marketing. But marketing isn’t shit if you don’t have a good (if not great, awesome) product, have your distribution channels tied up and have great service.
Here’s an example, T-mobile has great freaking commercials, the bee loves the marketing campaign. It’s great, people [...]