1. Book Pricing Amazon blinked. In case you missed the story, over the weekend Macmillan drew a line in the sand.  No more devaluing our product, no more underselling to boost Kindle market share, we’re not going to let you sell electronic books for $9.99 upon date of hard cover publication. Oh YEAH?? Well, yeah.  […]

1. Shitty Name There’s a linguist somewhere who can explain why the hard "a" sound in "Pad" is unappealing.  "iSlate" was better.  So many of the Web prognostications were better.  And if the original hard drive iPod can be renamed the "Classic", maybe the iPod Touch can be renamed the "iPhone For Verizon Subscribers" and […]

I’m not convinced I need one! I remember vividly the moment I knew I needed an iPod.  I was on the back side of Mammoth Mountain, waiting to get on Chair 14, and the guy in front of me had white wires dangling from his ears.  It wasn’t even 2002.  The device had only been […]

"According to a source familiar with his thinking, Jobs has recognized that ‘mobile ads suck’ and that improving that situation will make Apple even harder to beat." BusinessWeek -"Apple vs. Google" Aren’t ads supposed to suck? Google survives, quite nicely, on providing targeted ads.  You may not click on them, but enough people do that […]