IPad, Mercantilism and the Chinese Plantation

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald This is not a post about CRM. If you could apply Fitzgerald’s definition of a first-rate intelligence to a thing or group endeavor—always a dubious [...]

I want an iPad (almost)

I am an Apple enthusiast but once in a while I need to hit them about the head and shoulders with an old tire tool.  You know? I was in the Apple Store last weekend paying the Apple tax, buying my wife an iPhone.  It was time.  The phone she was using had a battery [...]

Tablets, CRM and more

Tablet vendors at the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas had a coming out party.  Driven by the wild success of the iPad, they introduced something like eighty — that’s 8-0h my goodness — tablet PCs to the world.  Now, by itself that’s significant, especially for CRM, and something hard to miss [...]

Apple and Microsoft in dead heat

Katie bar the door!  A fresh headline from the venerable New York Times captures an important moment — “New King of Technology: Apple Overtakes Microsoft” Don’t get too excited, we’re dealing in Monopoly money here as the article makes clear: “In intraday trading in the afternoon session, Apple shares rose 1.8 percent, which gave the [...]

Least common complaints about iPad LOL!

Billy Kimball writes a funny and short list of “Least Common Complaints About the New iPad” in this week’s New Yorker. Sample: Time-travel app does not automatically adjust for Julian calendar.  http://archives.newyorker.com/#folio=022

Apple Software, Inc.

When Apple changed its name by dropping the “Computer” word we all thought that the reason was the phenomenal success it has had in consumer electronics.  Sure, the company kicks booty with its computers thanks to great design and a stable operating system, but the success of the iPod seemed to point the company in [...]