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Daring Fireball: Design Quality and Customer Delight as Sustainable Advantages
Daring Fireball: Design Quality and Customer Delight as Sustainable Advantages A long, quality article from John Gruber on Apple bear arguments. He argues convincingly that Apple’s biggest danger is stumbling in its design and quality. They occupy the high end of the market and, as such, they must continue to provide high end, differentiated products. …
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Apple hires Burberry CEO as SVP of Retail – stratēchery by Ben Thompson
Apple hires Burberry CEO as SVP of Retail – stratēchery by Ben Thompson Ben Thompson on Apple’s hire of Burberry CEO. He is absolutely right that these luxury/fashion hirings of late (Apple also hired Yves Saint Laurent’s former CEO) point to the fact that Apple was doubling down on its luxury status in its lack …
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Getting Apps Ready for Cyber Monday
Getting Apps Ready for Cyber Monday Many big brands don’t understand the most fundamental change that mobile apps have brought about. When it comes to mobile, state-of-the-art is not about reliably delivering cloud services. State-of-the-art is all about connecting with human emotions. If you don’t keep your eyes on that prize, you’ll miss both your …
Apple Will Hold Fall iPad Event on October 22
Apple Will Hold Fall iPad Event on October 22 As Gruber said (who also deserves a hat tip for the link), the date was almost easy to guess, but the real scoop here is the iPad MIni getting the retina screen AND the A7. If those turn out to be accurate in a few weeks, …
They’re (Almost) All Dirty: The State of Cheating in Android Benchmarks
They’re (Almost) All Dirty: The State of Cheating in Android Benchmarks We posted a while back on Samsung’s cheating to amp performance whenever it detected benchmarking software was running. But now Anandtech takes a look at the industry as a whole, and nearly everyone is dirty. Only Apple and Motorola can say that they don’t …
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Judge tosses Apple motion, allows patent troll Lodsys to continue rampage
Judge tosses Apple motion, allows patent troll Lodsys to continue rampage Short summary: true patent troll Lodsys (they make nothing and exist solely to sue) successfully keeps Apple from having the ability to defend its developers. Also, Apple is asserting its license of these patents already covers the developers who use their tech, but we’ll …
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Intersection: Updating to iOS 7
Intersection: Updating to iOS 7 Christopher Hills (who has cerebral palsy) explains the brand new accessibility features for users with switch controls. These are assistive devices that allow people with motor impairments to use a precise touch-driven interface like iOS. It is the equivalent of what VoiceOver was to the visually impaired. It is so …
Platform updates and the rate of innovation
Platform updates and the rate of innovation Ben Evans takes a look at iOS 7 and the differences between Apple and Google’s abilities to drive innovation on their platforms. Google seems to definitely be moving away from any OS level updates and delivering nearly everything through Google Play Services. This will be interesting to see …
