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A Million Unlocked iPhones Being Shown Off All Around the World – That’s a Tragedy?

Posted by  in Wednesday, January 30th 2008   
Topics: Advertising, Apple, Computing, Design, Film, Financial, Gadgets, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Mobile, Music, Retail, TV    Tags: , , , , , , ,
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Even if the numbers of a million iPhones being unlocked are correct, that’s a MILLION iPhones walking around all over the world as FREE marketing and advertising for Apple – the most effective advertising of all – because it gives those users the cachet of doing something “not quite legal.” That they are “above the [...]

Amazon Mp3 Will Affect Amazon Revenue More Than Apple’s iPod or iTunes

Posted by  in Tuesday, January 29th 2008   
Topics: Apple, Film, Financial, Gadgets, Internet, iPhone, Mobile, Music, Retail, Video    Tags: , , , , , , , ,
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It’s pretty amazing the number of journalists who don’t look at a situation before just plowing ahead and writing words and “a conclusion.” They either choose to ignore the real world or they simply don’t understand it. Either way, it’s appalling. Yes, Amazon’s entry into the “unlocked” DRM free Mp3 market will affect Apple & [...]

NBC Direct.com: iTunes Replacement in 11 Steps + Ads!

Posted by  in Monday, November 12th 2007   
Topics: Advertising, Apple, Computing, Design, Gadgets, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Media, Media Companies, Retail, TV    Tags: , , , , , ,
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NBC decided to dump iTunes because they wanted to go down their own path. Why offer consumers, viewers and customer convenience when consumers will do ‘whatever we at NBC say?’ NBC – we’re so good – people should jump through flaming hoops to watch us! iTunes was oh so simple and boring. Sure, ONE CLICK [...]

NBC-U Jeff Zucker, His iTunes Numbers Don’t Add Up

Posted by  in Tuesday, October 30th 2007   
Topics: Advertising, Apple, Computing, Film, Financial, Gadgets, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Media, Media Companies, Mobile, Music, Retail, TV, Video    Tags: , , , , , ,
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NBC-U Jeff Zucker is now mad people consider him and his Hulu venture idiotic so he is trying to talk as if he actually understands digital and the television business going forward. He now claims that $15 million from NBC iTunes sales is not enough for him. Nevermind that is 7.5 million impressions of NBC [...]