May 2013
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Wireless - The Tiny Giant
Sometimes, what you believe to be true in the abstract truly becomes concrete when you experience the effects first hand. Over the past few years, I have commented to friends and colleagues about how dramatically the wireless landscape has contracted. Not in the overall size of the market (while growth in the US at least has pretty well plateaued, the total annual unit volume is still about as...
February 2013
2 posts
Why is tech PR broken?
Recently, I have been seeing a growing flood of posts and tweets from members of the media (print, online and otherwise) bemoaning the current state of PR (specifically tech PR). While some level of friction between media and PR reps is nothing new (and probably healthy to some extent), it seems as though the methods that many tech PR practitioners are now implementing are changing the historical...
The Rule of Two
This week’s introduction of Blackberry 10, and the surrounding punditry around it (is it innovative enough to succeed? Are there enough apps? How’s the battery life? etc, etc.) led me to thinking about whether the question shouldn’t simply be “Does it matter?”. There is absolutely nothing new about the hypothesis that the smartphone market has bifurcated into two camps – iOS and Android. Given the...
July 2012
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What do the iPhone and George Foreman have in...
With the upcoming release of the sixth iteration of the iPhone, there have been plenty of educated (likely correct) suppositions that unlike the devices that have come so far, that the new iPhone will lack any sort of numerical designator - and simply be named “the new iPhone”. This seems to align with the most recent iPad - just known as “the new iPad”. Most commentators think that this is a fine...
So long, and thanks for all the fi(nni)sh...
Even when a 3 year detour is taken into account, 11 years is a long time to spend at any one company in these days of serial job-hopping. More than half of my working life has been spent at Nokia, and while there have been a fair share of rough spots along the way - I still consider my decision to join an unknown company from a little-known country back in 1998 to be the best choice that I ever...
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