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Apple’s Numbers

He not busy being born is busy dying. So said Bob Dylan, in “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding),” a fountain of wisdom on “Bringing It All Back Home,” a transition from politics to inner truth, from folk to rock, this was the LP before “Highway 61 Revisited,” when Dylan became a household name with […]

Steve Jobs Rules

DESIGN COUNTS Would Tesla have sold a fraction of Model S’s if it looked like the electric cars of yore? No, it looks like a Ferrari, and therefore early adopters, who want to look cool, purchased it. Few knew it goes like stink, with acceleration times exceeding all but the highest performance cars, but that’s […]

You Need To Be On Spotify

Maybe YouTube is not king. As of this moment, Mike Posner’s “I Took A Pill In Ibiza” has 200,912,604 streams on Spotify. But nowhere near this count on YouTube. The Vevo/YouTube clip has 37,303,201 views. The next most watched YouTube clip of the SeeB remix, which is the track we’re talking about here, has 1,697,208 […]

Amazon Echo

This was not supposed to happen. Apple was supposed to rule the future. That’s right, while pundits were debating the merits and demerits of the Apple Watch, Jony Ive’s grasp at immortality, with many fashionable elements but little utility, Jeff Bezos pivoted from his Fire phone debacle and slowly took over the world, foisting upon […]