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Posts Tagged ‘apple’

New Apple Toy

January 22, 2009

BTW, I finally broke down and got an Apple product. I believe we overpayed for an Apple iPod nano (my wife liked the colours, and the availability of docking speaker systems), but I am getting into it. The docking is great, and my exploration of iTunes and the iTunes store has added to [...]

Japanese Innovation

July 17, 2008

Continuing on the Apple/innovation theme, here is an interesting article from Newsweek about some of Japan’s high tech companies.  Interesting thoughts, although I would like to see them corroborated by some other stories.
Aricle here
Any opinions from any people from Japan?

TechOnline Blog on Innovation

July 17, 2008

My colleague Patrick Mannion has written an interesting blog on innovation–especially topical with the introduction of the iPhone.  He raises quite a lot of interesting points and has an excellent interview with Andrew Hargadon, the director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and the Energy Efficiency Center at the University of California, Davis.
Check it out here:  [...]

Why Apple?? (continued)

July 15, 2008

Wonderful responses to my original post about why I should consider Apple products, and general comments about Apple. I had two follow-up questions that sprang (is that a word?) to mind.
Is the extra price attached to an Apple product worth the premium?
Why does Apple not sell their Macs through Best Buy or some other [...]

Why Apple?

July 14, 2008

As we have just finished waiting 5 hours waiting (it rained for part of the time) to get an iPhone from the Rogers store in Ottawa, I wonder again—what’s the fuss about Apple?
Click this link for a video of me and fellow TechOnline Analyst Allan Yogasingam waiting for an iPhone.
I personally have an iRiver digital [...]