Entries from BizBox Blog on Slate tagged with 'Apple'
Apple's 'Genius' Idea
Nothing can change the fact that designing an application for a larger, broadly used platform is something that both other large corporations do and something the proverbial tinkerer in his own basement can accomplish. And that's why there's a sense...
What You Should Be Reading
Dog days, etc. Here's what to read in between naps. Protect ya' neck! Think intellectual property protection is unimportant for small businesses? Think again. [NYT] Protect ya' data. Some cheap and easy solutions. [Entrepreneur] Apple vs. Google. The battleground? Smartphone...
Going Cloud
Google has received much attention for its new ad campaign for its suite of cloud-based software, Google Apps. It is urging customers to "Go Google"--to switch over to these applications to conduct their business. Switch over from what? Well,...
Advertise Like Apple
We've written before about the comparative merits of Microsoft's and Apple's specific ad campaigns (the above link, for example, concerns the ill-fated "Mojave Experiment"--remember that one?). Today, though, we're focusing not on the campaigns themselves but on how much...
Why Aren't You Designing iPhone Apps?
Take a look at our coverage of Apple's iPhone: quite a lot for a site concerned with small business owners, right? Certainly Apple is no small business. But the reason we cover it so closely, as well as its...
facebook Pulls An Apple
We've generally focused on smartphones and applications for them as the prime ground for eager start-ups. But for a very similar platform, one should not at all ignore facebook, the massive social-networking Website. We should not ignore it because...
Is Apple Blocking Google Voice?
NOTE: GOOGLE VOICE IS NOW OBTAINABLE FROM THE IPHONE APP STORE, WHICH IS NOT REFLECTED IN THE ORIGINAL POST. THAT SAID, THE LARGER POINT, ABOUT APPLE'S SECRECY AND BIZARRE CAPRICIOUSNESS IN TERMS OF APP STORE APPROVAL, STILL VERY MUCH...
Apple Lets Google Get Away With A Kill (Switch)
We've been praising Google for promising to make the application store for its new Android mobile-phone operating system--whose first active phone, the G1, drops tomorrow--as open-source as possible. This distinguishes Google and Android from its main hip smartphone rival,...
The iPhone App Store: Backlash to the Backlash
We've pretty steadily followed the conventional wisdom regarding comparisons between Apple's extremely closed iPhone app store, especially when compared to Google's promised mostly open Android app store. This is an important topic, as the app stores are wonderful start-up...
The iPhone and the Android: Vive La Difference!
It really couldn't be more stark, and couldn't have been illustrated more starkly yesterday: the difference between Apple's attitude towards the legions of software developers looking to build their own products and start-ups upon the iPhone's formidable platform, and...
Will Your App Make It To The App Store? (This Is Funny)
The Great Podcaster Rejection, in which Apple inexplicably denied what seemed like a perfectly good iPhone application the crucial entree into its Application Store, has sent shockwaves through the tech developing world (people are pissed). It also prompted a...
The Apple App Store and its Discontents
We present a cautionary tale for developers of iPhone applications--which in the past we have encouraged as savvy start-up entrepreneurs. Via the New York Times's Bits blog, there is the story of one developer, Alex Sokirynsky, whose Podcaster app...
Keep Those iPhone Apps Coming!
Skeptical about developing iPhone apps, which we've identified as a hot industry for tech start-ups? Well a bit of recent bullish news may change your mind: namely, users of Apple's 12 million extant iPhones have downloaded over 100 million...
In Praise of Microsoft's Zune
An article in Forbes takes the Apple triumphalist route to bash Microsoft and its Zune mp3 player. We think it misses the point of the Zune, which is, as we've written in an earlier post, precisely to be the...
What Makes an iPhone Application Awesome
We've talked about the tremendous opportunity presented by Apple's iPhone (and, soon, the T-Mobile Dream, powered by Google's Android!) for inspired entrepreneurs to design applications that can form the crux of a successful start-up. All well and good, you...
Google To Open App Floodgates For New Phones
We wrote earlier this week about the iFund, a venture capital group looking to invest in start-ups that make applications for Apple's iPhone. Noting the potential for young companies that Apple is providing, we further observed that such opportunities...
The Real Secret To Apple's Success
Do check out Rohit Bhargava's post over at our Topic of the Week blog, here....
The iPhone's Platform For Small Businesses
The New York Times has a report today on the so-called iFund, a $100 million venture capital project whose goal is to invest in start-ups that make applications for Apple's immensely popular iPhone. The idea is to invest somewhere...
And What's The Deal With Apple?
Not one month after Microsoft debuted "The Mojave Experiment," its unique (and apparently ill-fated?) ad campaign for its Vista operating system, comes news (via Gizmodo) of the Seattle tech giant's initiating a $300 million campaign for Windows more broadly...
Microsoft's Zune, the ABiP: Anything But iPod
We wrote two days ago about the benefits of counter-branding, in which you conceptually go in the opposite direction of your industry in order to snatch up customers who are in the minority (so Universal successfully opened the musical...
Is Web 2.0 All That Different From Web 1.0?
Greg Verdino, one of our favorite bloggers, has a really provocative post up arguing that all the hype surrounding Web 2.0 in terms of improving social networking is somewhat overblown. In fact, his innovative, and somewhat revisionist, take is...
Enough About Mojave; Is Vista Entrepreneur-Friendly?
After a week of writing about The Mojave Experiment, Microsoft's bizarre, unorthodox, probably unsuccessful ad campaign, we're done. Except to link to this article about it that appeared on our sister site Slate yesterday. There: done. But what about...
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