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What to look for when the iPad launches

by Ian Rosenwach 3.28.2010

The iPad is coming on April 3rd and with that, thousands of journalists looking for an angle. Daniel Lyons has a gushing piece in Newsweek about the iPad.  According to Mr. Lyons, it’s another irresistible Apple product that will change the consumption of content and computing as we know it.  He was one of the […]

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Book Review: Odyssey – Pepsi To Apple, by John Sculley

by Ian Rosenwach 3.4.2010

In Odyssey, Pepsi to Apple, John Sculley tells his story of working at Pepsi and then as President at Apple. Sculley was at Apple from 1983 – 1993 as CEO.  The book was written in 1988 while Sculley was still Apple CEO. There is one good reason to read this book and that is to […]

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Google Latitude, the iPhone, and Apple’s values

by Ian Rosenwach 9.10.2009

I’ve just started using Google Latitude for iPhone more.  But there’s a problem I knew about but hadn’t experienced. My friends who have Blackberries have their location constantly updated on the phone.  I have to actually navigate to the Latitude website in Safari for my location to be updated! This is because Apple does not […]

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The iPhone, China, and Africa

by Ian Rosenwach 8.27.2009

I bet Steve Jobs has an image like this in his office. China would be a big market to enter, but notice the lack of penetration in Africa. I assume the market just isn’t there. The One Laptop per Child Project aimed to bring low-cost CPU’s to the developing world. Perhaps the netbook (or even […]

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Apple breaks up with Google

by Ian Rosenwach 8.3.2009

Google’s Schmidt Leaves Apple Board – WSJ.com “Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple’s core businesses, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings due to potential conflicts of interest,” Mr. Jobs […]

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First signs of Apple Google rift

by Ian Rosenwach 7.23.2009

“Unfortunately, since there is no mechanism for applications to run in the background on iPhone (which applies to browser-based web apps as well), we’re not able to provide continuous background location updates in the same way that we can for Latitude users on Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Window Mobile.” – Official Google Mobile Blog: Google […]

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