Tag Archives: Apple

What’s so wrong with being a niche business?

Posted on March 22, 2018 by

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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