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Zune Text Based Interface Design When Zune was released to the world I found it curious that few commented on the the Microsoft choice of interface – a text based menu system vs. Apples icon alternative. To navigate through the Microsoft menu system – you scroll through text descriptions of the various options – “Music”, “Videos”, [...] HP Tablet PC So now Nokia is the latest participant in the tablet race. And who cares? Maybe the same crowd that thinks there’s still hope for Palm (See my note at the end of this article)? As I’ve said before 2010 is the year of the tablet, but we need to keep in mind – it’s [...] Image via CrunchBase It’s no secret that Apple is cash rich, currently sitting on 40 billion in reserves and in the past few months they’ve been publicly stating that they have some desire to begin spending it. Well I have an idea: buy Nintendo (or a large stake in the company). Why? Well [...] Apple’s original PDA, helped establish the market Palm took over, in part due to major innovations the company made. Leapfrogging – It’s a phenomenon that I see occur time and time again, where the industry leader is blindsided by a leap in innovation – an innovation they should have owned. Yet so many organizations still [...] Image via Wikipedia With the release of iPad so should come with MobileMe tossed in for free. Take a page from Google and see the value not in the user fee’s but rather the targeting advertising. Maybe offer a package of reduced services, and for those who want more features – pay a little bit more. It’s [...] Microsoft's Retail Experience Centre in Redmond Washington Microsoft has decided to take their not so secret anti-Apple stance one step further by deciding to opening a series of retail outlets that directly compete with the now iconic and very popular Apple stores. Microsoft has escalated this ‘threat’ to new levels by publicly stating that they [...] |
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