Sometimes it’s hard to convince PC users of the benefits of Apple computers and Mac OS X.
Since their computers are hardly personal, and just tools, and essentially lacking style and personality, they don’t understand, can’t grasp, cannot fit in their brains the concept of an interface that has been obsessively designed to fit, to function, […]

Umm … really … can we please just say richer?

more socioeconomically advantaged

From the Freakonomics blog.
Tags: language, john koetsier

The first reviews of iPhone are starting to come out. Saw this on the NY Times:

On the iPhone, you don’t check your voice mail; it checks you. One button press reveals your waiting messages, listed like e-mail. There’s no dialing in, no password — and no sleepy robot intoning, “You…have…twenty…one…messages.”

I so so so so so […]

In a discussion on the burning question of “who Bill Gates really is,” we get the following brilliant insight:

“Bill Gates is the proxy for how Microsoft will be remembered. First and foremost, he’s a businessman. He’s not an inventor or technologist, per se, and I don’t think he would claim to be. He’s fundamentally a […]

Is 3 negative articles in one day a coincidence?

Analysts: iPhone Has Neither Security nor Relevance
Enterprise Hurdles Await iPhone
Fear and Loathing in IT: iPhone and Macintosh

Holy mother, what on earth is going on here?
Could it be an extremely Windows-centric empire of analysts and business media is absolutely terrified that their comfortable bread-and-butter Windows hegemony is […]

If Scoble says it’s good, it’s usually worth a look. So when Scoble says that ClipBlast is a “killer video search engine”, I thought I’d check it out.
One thing I’ve been looking for lately is video footage of Alexander Ovechkin’s lying-on-the-ice backhander goal from last year. We’re talking ice-hockey, in case you’re wondering.
Here’s what ClipBlast […]

Every time I see something like this in the mainstream press I think: clueless.

There’s little question the iPhone pulls a lot of great wireless functions and applications into a very cool package. But most of those features aren’t exactly new. Google Maps for mobile? Practically any smartphone user can download the application to his or […]

It’s hard to believe that people at major weblogs and web content companies don’t know this yet, but Microsoft Word and the web don’t really see eye to eye:

(At least for people on non-Microsoft browsers and platforms.)
Tags: word, web, incompatible, microsoft, topic, stupid, test it already, john […]

Today I trashed Creating Passionate Users from my bloglines feeds - holy mother that sucks.
Those who have followed the blog know that Kathy Sierra had some nastier-than-usual trolls in her audience whose words and actions seemed to be threats against Kathy’s physical and emotional wellbeing. You can find the details on Wikipedia. Most of the […]

“People do not care about facts, they care about stories.”
Was just reading Eric Enge’s interview with Seth Godin, and that little tidbit resonates. It resonates strong.
It explains a lot about media and their stories, it explains a lot about successful and unsuccessful marketing, and it explains a lot about good presentations versus bad presentations.
The challenge: […]