"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 […]

"Objectified" – Jonathan Ive talks about Mac design & Unibody MacBook manufacture Watch this video.  Hang in past the foreign language intro until Ive comes on screen. Some of the things he says are mindblowing.  Because they apply to all art.  And make no mistake, Jonathan Ive is an artist. Getting design out of the […]

Insanely great products a handful of times a year. Imagine if Apple introduced a product no one wanted.  Something lame.  And held a press conference every other week to trumpet its features. Then you’d have the music business. What’s the lifespan of excitement on a laptop? Certainly not a year.  Maybe nine months at most. […]

At a steep discount according to Peter Kafka at allthingsd.com   Essentially fifty cents on the dollar. WMG continues to be the worst investor on the block, already having written down $11 million of its $20 million dollar investment. So what exactly is Apple buying? Technology. There’s the issue of being able to put a […]