Apple TV and iPhone

25Jan07

Early last year1 I talked about how I felt the iPod was such a strong seller in the MP3 market because of the Apple brand and that Sony blew it in a space they should have owned. Since then Sony have come out with the hard-drive based Walkman and a rake of other MP3 [...]

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Microsoft iPod Box

03Mar06

As I mentioned in an earlier posting, the iPod box is an example of Apple’s ability to produce really nice stuff. The difference in style between Microsoft and Apple seems to be pretty fundamental (see this comparison between the presentation style of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs for example). Now someone has produced [...]

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iPod: The Brand Is Stronger Than The Hardware

22Feb06

In a post to my other blog yesterday I talked about how I thought there might be a sneaky iPod Nano recall going on. It got me thinking about the power of the Apple brand and in particular the iPod.
The problems that people have been having with iPods are well documented and anecdotally a [...]

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