The FSFE's Hugo Roy, who was in touch with Steve Jobs regarding Ogg and patents, says that "Steve Jobs' business secret is pricing, not design." He has just found the following two articles:
Steve Jobs “never had any designs. He has not designed a single project”
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In short, Jobs’ only contribution to the Macintosh project was to try unsuccessfully to cancel it.
How Apple plays the pricing game
Next time you're sitting at an airport bar and hear two businesspeople debate whether Apple is a technology or design company, chime in: "Nope. What Steve Jobs sells is pricing."
Pricing? You bet.
Jobs is a master of using pricing decoys, reference prices, bundling and obscurity to make you think his shiny aluminum toys are a good deal. Apple's Sept. 1 announcement of new products was a classic
The popular iPod Touch media player has been revamped at three price points - $229, $299, and $399 - all costing more than the iPhone, which does everything the Touch can plus make phone calls.
As I discuss in a post at GigaOM Pro, Ping’s lack of integration with other social networks, or even with the web itself, is now its most compelling feature, at least from a strategic perspective.
Users have to upgrade their iTunes installation to access Ping. Something that you cannot do on Linux.
Apple probably hates Linux so much that they intentionally integrated Ping in iTunes to block Linux users. Just kidding of course.
Pedestrian death rise blamed on iPods
The ''iPod zombie trance'' people get into when walking, driving or pedalling around listening to their mobile devices is being blamed for an increase in collisions and even deaths in Europe and the US.
The issue has been highlighted in Sydney by the death of a 46-year-old Glebe woman reportedly wearing headphones when she was knocked down and killed by an ambulance on Saturday night.
Comments
NotZed
2010-09-08 02:19:24
Drive up the arse of another car and it's 100% your fault, but kill a human and it was their fault for being there ...