Tag Archives: Apple

What’s so wrong with being a niche business?

Posted on March 22, 2018 by markkolier

I’ve written about Blackberry a number of times since I started this blog but not since 2012 when I wrote – I’m waving bye-bye to Blackberry. I noted the features were awful, the battery life was poor, and the two-year … Continue reading →

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Amazon and Apple – are they rivals or partners?

Posted on October 2, 2014 by markkolier

Aggravation: As of last week The Wall Street Journal application that resides on my ‘Original’ Amazon Kindle Fire is no longer is supported by Amazon.  I learned of this when last week I could no longer download the paper.   No … Continue reading →

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China Skinny does a good job curating China content

Posted on October 17, 2013 by markkolier

One of my new favorite China information sites is China Skinny It is a collection of stories related to marketing and lifestyle development in the Middle Kingdom.   The variety of stories is very good and I almost always find more than … Continue reading →

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The Kindle Fire can’t be the best that Amazon can do

Posted on June 13, 2013 by markkolier

Even before I had bought the original Kindle in 2007 (this was pre-iPad days if you’ll recall), I had been a longtime fan of Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com.   Back in the 1990’s I bought some Amazon.com stock @ $11/share only … Continue reading →

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China’s Foxconn and Apple – a match not quite made in heaven

Posted on March 30, 2012 by markkolier

Although I have visited a number of factories in China I’ve never had the opportunity to visit the giant Foxconn factories which are located in several different parts of China. Foxconn is actually a Taiwanese company as an affiliate of … Continue reading →

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A Kindle Fire is cool, an iPad is cooler – an iPadlet could be coolest

Posted on March 19, 2012 by markkolier

When I got my Amazon Kindle over the past holiday season I had my first opportunity to use a tablet for any length of time. I liked the smaller compact size – it fit into my briefcase better than an … Continue reading →

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Is Blackberry standing at death’s door?

Posted on October 17, 2011 by markkolier

Like so many RIM – Research in Motion – BB users, last week’s worldwide Blackberry outage was a big inconvenience for me. I was traveling and even more reliant on the efficacy of BB’s email platform. A by-product was that … Continue reading →

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The CES – Consumer Electronics Show – I am not going – are you?

Posted on January 5, 2011 by markkolier

Every year in January the CES takes place in Las Vegas. This year there is buzz about tablet PCs (more than 50 will be on display), television apps, 3D TV apps and accessories, computer printers (HP apparently has a really … Continue reading →

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