Tag: Apple

  • Link: Usage of Apple Watch by British Airways Passengers

    “Apple watches now account for more than five per cent of app usage, giving customers access to real-time flight status, gate information, a countdown to the departure time and the weather at their destination.” Source: Usage of Apple Watch by British Airways Passengers

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  • Podcast stats, , as of 2 April 2015

    Coté Memo #068: Are they really making $48,000 a month just talking about Apple?

    Tech & Work World Podcasting Rates Brandon shared some podcast revenue estimates with me from the Hot Pod newsletter recently. I’m all for there being lots of money in podcasting, but they seem bonkers high: Then there’s Standard Broadcast Co., independently produced shows that hang a banner under the same ad sales network. This includes…

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  • Industry analyst

    The new industry analysts, again

    Never mind journalism, it’s industry analysts who are being disrupted. I keep coming across a new crop of IT industry analysts who end up getting compared incorrectly to journalists. It’s little wonder as most people have little idea what an industry analyst does; it’s not like analysts, hidden behind their austere paywalls, help much there.…

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  • My old cache of D&D books. And there

    Coté Memo #061: On the tedious need to have an opinion

    Tech & Work World Having an opinion, or not In the types of jobs I’ve found myself in over recent years – analyst, strategist, “content producer” in the form of podcasts and blogs – you have to generate a lot of opinions. The best actually seem to really care about the things they have opinions…

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  • To me this almost the image of…a dog running ahead of the fire. And, as a bonus: “my contention is that the Mac in the 90s sucked!” Exponent: 024: A Celebratory Goblet of Champagne http://overca.st/Bihkhrizk

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  • Yes. I’d stop. I’d make things for myself, for my friends at home instead. The bar needs to be high. I don’t think that will happen. We are at the beginning of a remarkable time, when a remarkable number of products will be developed. When you think about technology and what it has enabled us…

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  • The sales force is now using iPads

    Nice anecdote about iPads going from zero to full use in mainstream-sounding use cases: I’m not a “tech” guy, but wanted to give you a perspective from a person who works for a fortune 500 company. I recently returned from a National Sales meeting, and was amazed with the iPhone market share within our company…

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  • The new fragmentation

    The result is the CIOs and individuals face a market over the next five years where Microsoft still dominates PCs, Apple’s iPad leads the tablet category, and Google’s Android leads in smartphone sales. Frank Gillett, Forrester

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