After all the fuss about iPhone 4’s faulty antennas, Apple just announced a 78% increase in profits, thanks in part to the sale of 8.4 million iPhones (a rise of 61% from last year).
This may have beat Wall Street’s estimates, but we weren’t surprised. We’ve been monitoring the iPhone 4 in social media and, [...]
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Employees “sell” Apple Macs to their bosses
May 1st, 2008 — MarkSteve Jobs of Apple doesn’t employ a sales force to persuade corporations to switch to Apple. Nonetheless Apple market share in this area is growing, driven in part by the consumer’s liking for the iPod and iPhone. In an intriguing Business Week survey Peter Burrows highlights that employees, sick of a PC by [...]
Murdoch “salutes the bloggers”
March 14th, 2006 — MarkRupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, has again saluted the rise of blogging (myspace), self-produced (youtube) and on-demand (iTunes) media consumption.
“It is difficult, indeed dangerous, to underestimate the huge changes this revolution will bring or the power of developing technologies to build and destroy – not just companies but whole countries.”
Last weekend, I was in [...]