Apple Users for Microsoft

Just remember, guys, the cover-up is always worse than the crime:
Metadata found on Microsoft’s creative copy used in its ‘I’m a PC’ ad reveals that the graphics were actually produced using Macs running Adobe Creative Suite 3. After the details were published on the Flickr photo sharing site, Microsoft scrambled to polish off the embarrassing [...]

The New iPods

Saw them today at the Apple Store, wasn’t impressed. I find the new Nano’s much-touted screen to be too small for video. It’s OK as a portable photo album. The new Classic doesn’t seem as solidly well-made as its predecessors. The action nowadays looks to be all on the iPhone/iPod Touch side of the operation.

But Does It Sell Software?

Back in my college days, I sat in on a presentation from a Miller Brewing marketing person who was explaining the thinking behind company’s then-popular “less filling, tastes great” ad campaign. The ads were noteworthy for their light touch (the George Steinbrenner/Billy Martin spot remains a classic) but the Miller rep’s takeaway point was that [...]

Andy Hertzfeld Speaks

O’Reilly News has a nice interview with the man who wrote the original Macintosh operating system. He works for Google these days and has an interesting perspective on what makes the companies tick:
One of the ways that they’re different has to do with essentially their trust of employees. Apple is very secretive within the company; [...]

MobileMe

Steve Jobs concedes that Apple botched the launch of the MobileMe service. Or, should I say, re-launch. It was .Mac before that, was and remains overpriced at $99 a year, and seems snakebitten and poorly conceptualized. Very, very far from being the highlight of the Apple experience.