Apple is notorious at building immense hype on their products, especially when a new iPhone is launched. It’s the only company that has tens – if not, hundreds – of rumor sites dedicated to covering rumors on future products – ranging from the Beatles joining the iTunes catalog to an Apple LCD TV.
Apple wouldn’t be where they are today if it wasn’t for their PR push to get consumers to buy their products. Consumers get the message that Apple products are must-have and will pay extreme amounts of money to have those products. Even wait in line fore days in 100 degree heat.
But this iPhone launch has been different. Early adopters, mostly people that work in the media, discovered that the iPhone 4 has a design flaw that can kill the signal when grip tightly in your left hand.
Those people talked loudly about the flaw and eventually spread to the mainstream press, especially Consumer Reports. Now Apple is on the wrong side of publicity and Steve Jobs does not like it – even though this is the same the company has been known…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs writes another letter on its’ website, this time to tell us why Flash isn’t on their mobile devices and why it won’t be on any i-mobile-devices anytime soon. The timing of this post is suspicious – almost to draw attention away from the situation with Gizmodo. Ignoring my conspiracy theory, Jobs [...]
Almost every mainstream media outlet has reported on the Gizmodo iPhone exclusive as well as the raid on Jason Chen’s home. Some outlets that don’t usually report on tech news did talk about this story, like Rush Limbaugh. Add the Daily Show with Jon Stewart as another outlet to chime in on the Apple/Gizmodo raid. [...]
Former Sun CEO Scott McNealy vocally proclaimed that privacy is dead and we need to get over it; however two events last week – one involving the display of users’ credit cards – demonstrates that many companies are ignoring the privacy of users and that users still value that right. When an idea surfaced about [...]
The fifth – or sixth installment if you include the PSP game; Splinter Cell: Essentials – installment of the Splinter Cell series continues with the sequel to Double Agent, called Splinter Cell: Conviction. The story picks up three years after Double Agent as Sam Fisher no longer works for the secret branch of the NSA, [...]
Unlike the New Orleans market, there were no surprises in the Baton Rouge radio ratings as Citadel-owned KQXL-FM (Q106 dot 5) remains in first place with an average rating 11.75 from Summer 2009 to today. Second place is sister station WEMX-FM (MAX 94) with an average of 9.075. Third goes to WDGL-FM (Eagle 98.1) with [...]
While Clear Channel’s WYLD-FM (WYLD 98) and WQUE-FM (Q93) battle for the top spot, WWL-AM/FM had the biggest radio ratings increase since the summer book ended in July 2009 to take third place in the New Orleans radio market. This is all due to the New Orleans Saints as WWL radio is the flagship station [...]
Woot.com is also cashing in on April Fools Day with Woot your own adventure. Just like the book, customers can either select the current item for sale or select either A,B,C or D and a new item appears. Keep going and customers could get the chance to buy the grand prize: $1 bag of crap [...]
Today is April Fools day, the only day that you can tell someone that their house just burned down and not either lose that friend or get arrested. It is also a day in which many online companies – mainly Google and the rest – like to pull pranks on everyone. Last year, every video [...]
We have another update to our story about 3DTV channels not coming to a cable system near you. This update comes from Time Warner Cable spokesperson Maureen Huff. “We don’t have a definite timeframe on 3D as of yet,” Huff said.
