When Apple comes to mind, most people relate their products to great advertising. In New York City this fact can be seen every day with their huge iPad billboards towering overhead and subway posters. Their commercials are also quite striking with a catchy song and visuals depicting their products at work. In todays era, advertising is an intricate part of any new product's lifecycle. An introduction to a new product during highly watched shows and sports matches can boost sales tenfold nowadays. Apple is no stranger to advertising and have had some of the best...
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Despite initial mediocre reviews of the iPhone 4S and iPad 2, Apple had an astonishing fourth quarter and year in general. With over 37 million iPhone sales in the fourth quarter, Apple has also regained the number one spot in brand listing according to General Sentiments. Apple and Google have been switching spots this year, but Apple closed the year off strong. According to Bloomberg.com, Apple Inc. (APPL) shares climbed 6.2 percent to $446.66 and their strong 2011 fourth quarter netted $13.1 billion in profits. This is the highest record profit since Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM)...
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On this date in 1984 personal computing changed for good. People were already getting used to the concept of a computer in their home, albeit the IBM or the Apple ]
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Global Equities Research, a consulting firm that tracks iBooks sales, has gone pubic telling the world that since Apple updated their popular ePub reader, iBooks to now read textbooks, over 350,000 textbooks where downloaded within three days of being available. This is an amazing number since each book is $15/piece! Apple of course gets their 30% of that…so do the math - $5*350,000 = 1.75 million dollars. HOLY CRAP! I checked out the Physics textbook and WOW! I liked Physics in high school, and I can see how much more I would have liked it had I...
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Good Afternoon on this chilly December day in New York. This is the newest member of Virtua Computers Inc., Anthony, and I'm updating our blog on two topics: the Grand Central store opening and Apple TV rumors. First off, Apple has opened yet another beautiful store in NYC, it's Grand Central location. I visited the store when it opened to the public on Dec. 9th and there was a mob of people in the 23,000-square-foot store. The store is located in the middle of the terminal and wraps around on the upper floors. Check it out, it's easily the most accessible...
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So Steve resigned late last night, and the Apple Board of Directors appointed Tim Cook the CEO. I heard that when Steve texted the board he wrote "I reign as the CEO of Apple", but the iPhone autocorrected it to say "resigned". Ha, just kidding. Tim Cook has already stated "Apple is not going to change". Unfortunately for Tim, the stock price and valuation did change - so he better hurry up and get the iPhone 5 out soon. PS for those who keep asking me when it's coming out, I'll know when you know - but...
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Apple closed it's online store this morning with the very famous yellow sticky: And everyone expected it to be back up pretty quick, considering it was a Wednesday. But something terrible happened and the store is not only down with the sticky but down down, as in DEAD! As of 1:40pm - I can't access the store. I hear some other people can't either. Sounds like a bigger issue, or maybe Johnny unplugged the servers:
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Ok, since I haven't yet finished justinesgar.com to post my twitter updates, I'm gonna keep posting them here. Today, I got a mix of python and AppleScript to get Nigel (my DLA) to tell me when someone mentions me on Twitter. Only problem now is finding a Twitter application that will trigger the script. Ok first part is the AppleScript. For temporary purposes I'm using the official Twitter app found the App Store:
set whosaid to text of (do shell script "python /Users/YOURUSER/scripts/mentions.py")
say ("Sir," & whosaid & "mentioned you on twitter. Shall I read outloud?")
tell...
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So Lion did finally come out last Weds, and while I have purchased a new MacBook Air and a new Mac Mini Server - I have to say I'm in Lion HELL! I've only been using Lion Server, but they moved everything around. Lion Server's price dropped from $499 to $50 because Apple wants to allow anyone to configure a server. They made this new "easy to use" Server application. So you can easily turn on File Sharing or Web - but in order to do the nitty gritty stuff (like DNS or Open Directory) you...
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So it's currently 1020am, and more than likely Lion will not be arriving today. Now all the sites are saying "Lion coming Wednesday". What I find funny about this is all these other sites will be like "it's coming tomorrow" and when it doesn't they say "oh not today, tomorrow". They keep doing this until the product is released then they have the audacity to be like "see it came out when we said it would!". HA! If there is anything good in the new by this afternoon I'll do a video, if not….we'll try again...
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