January 2010
4 posts
“I can’t listen to Pandora on it while I browse the web.”
– Are you listening to Pandora right now?
Jan 28th
The iPad Big Picture →
“Apple doesn’t talk much about the technical details of the iPhone. They never talk about CPU speed or the name of the chip being used. They don’t tell you how much RAM is in there. Part of their vision for moving computers from technical culture to popular culture is about getting away from defining these things by their technical specs. So the prominent talk about A4 is telling. This is...
Jan 28th
Textbooks (iPad)
Textbooks only received a 5 second mention today during the Stevenote.  Thanks to the McGraw-Hill CEO on CNBC yesterday? (update, insiders say this is the case: http://venturebeat.com/2010/01/27/mcgraw-ipad/)
Jan 28th
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Should Apple do Free Trials?
A good friend of mine just posted an interesting idea — apple should give 30-day, free macbook pro trials.  This got me thinking a bit, first because the idea of the delight response curve is quite an interesting one, and second because, I wonder what other strategies could be employed to achieve a similar goal (namely, allowing consumers to experience the Zone of Delight). The Delight...
Jan 27th