The iPhone 4 is coming to Verizon Wireless! Today, Verizon held a press conference in NYC where Chief Operating Officer Lowell McAdam promised the press conference would “not disappoint”. After a tedious explanation of how much Verizon has beefed up their systems and technologies for this moment in time, he officially announced that the iPhone 4 is headed to Verizon. Here’s a look at what’s in store and how best to decide whether or not to switch. Continue reading
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Conversations With Corvida, Using Technology To Motivate Yourself and Others
2010 has been something of a wild ride for me. It hasn’t stopped either. I’ve just wrapped up the Volt Unplugged Tour with Chevrolet and now collaborating with Nike Women for the Make Yourself Movement. Now it’s time to but some of that energy back into SheGeeks. I’d like to introduce an important purchase I made during Black Friday and the new project that I’m working on. Your feedback will most certainly be needed.
Continue reading 2 Clever Apps To Get Your iTunes Music On Android Smartphones
iTunes is a powerhouse music store that every Android smartphone owner is scrambling to get out of. It’s not easy either. Despite many music streaming services, there are little alternatives to iTunes when it comes music management.
With the help of the DoubleTwist and TuneSync, syncing your Android smartphone with iTunes is easy.
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Be Careful What You Buy In The App Store
Boing Boing has recently written up an article about a very serious concern for people who buy apps from the iTunes App Store. Apple does not refund the money on apps that they pull from the store. According to the post, one customer tried to receive a refund from Apple for pulling the NetShare Tethering app. Apple issued the following statement:
All iTunes purchases are final, and I am unable to refund you for the app.
You will need to contact NetShare directly, as this is there [sic] product and we can do nothing with it.
And you call Microsoft greedy….
Way to go Apple on great customer service and support. Take 30% of the lump-sum and leave the developer to cover your ass. This is one reason why I refuse to truly support Apple. Outside of the iPhone, I don’t own a single Apple product and never have. I’d hate to have to deal with their customer service and that is the sole reason why I don’t buy more of their stuff. I’ll take Microsoft over this crap any day.
Is Apple’s Jealousy Of Microsoft Surfacing?
Apple has been a big bully this week and to be quite frank, I think it’s because Apple’s jealous.
The Safari Fiasco
Apple has been making headlines, most notably on Techmeme, over the fact that they are now pushing their products onto Windows machine’s using their Apple Software Update program. Basically, if you don’t have any of their products installed, when you use their updater, the option to install these products is checked by default. This doesn’t stop at Safari either. Oh no, silly people! This has also happened for those that don’t have iTunes installed. Damn Apple! Is this how we do business now? Even John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, thinks Apple’s latest moves are wrong. However, that could be because they didn’t think of it first.
Nevertheless, people have been pretty pissed off about this move from Apple. It says a lot about the company’s emotions towards not only Microsoft, but also users of Microsoft’s products. Personally, I feel it has jealousy and envy written ever so subtly all over it. Obviously the market share that Windows has could make anyone envious. Even though iPods and iTunes are dominating the music scene, they beat the revenue that Microsoft generates off of Windows alone. As a result, Apple’s becoming more aggressive with it’s marketing tactics. It’s an unexpected move from Apple and one that most would expect to see from Microsoft instead. You have to admit, Apple is definitely dirty dancing.
The Ads
At the same time, I notice Apple’s ads are becoming more and more spiteful in tone. At first, everyone laughed. It was…snarky. One could almost consider it to be friendly rivalry. Then today I read that, “Apple again takes a swipe at Vista on Windows-friendly sites“.
In the ad, the PC Guy notices that the banner above has a negative headline calling Vista “one of the biggest blunders in technology”. He walks to a blank wall and opens a door to reveal an “Emergency Banner Refresh” panel. He pulls a lever and the ad refreshes, only to reveal another Vista-bashing headline that says the operating system needs “a do-over”. His third attempt finally yields a positive quote, this time referencing Leopard, the latest version of the Mac OS, calling it “a perfect 10″.
The PC Guy throws the switch one more time, and the top banner shows simply the Apple logo, while the right panel shows an iMac and the words “Upgrade to Mac.”
Update: This ad apparently was running Friday on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. It doesn’t appear to be there today, though.
Apple is fighting really dirty and being very slick about it lol. I’ve never seen any response from Microsoft, but if you have, please share them in the comments section.
What Apple fails to be seeing is that it’s dirty to the consumers not just Microsoft. We stand the most to lose from such behavior, not Microsoft, and Apple stands to lose one of the hardest things you can ever get from consumers: Trust. Is it really worth it Apple? Quite frankly, I’m glad I’m not using any of your products. Whatever happened to Updates? You know, the keyword in the program that you’re using to carry out your Windows domination plans?
What do you think: Is there a crack an Apple’s armor?
Are they really jealous? Is it simply ingenious marketing skills?
Or is it something else all together?