Tweet By: Spencer Burke Spotify Apps have been available to developers for nearly two months now. It’s changed the way I’ve listened to music. Actually, it’s more subtle than that. In the way that the best products disrupt deeply ingrained habits, Spotify + Apps combines services I already use and makes them more powerful and [...]
If you have even looked in the direction of the interwebs lately, you surely noticed the newest viral phenomenon of “Sh_t BLANK Says” videos. At the risk of being a party pooper, I have to admit, I cannot even make it through most of them, they are so dumb. However, when someone tweeted the “Sh_t Silicon Valley Says” video yesterday, I knew this was would be different.
Tweet By: Hillel Fuld When I approach the topic of a blog post, I ask myself a few questions first. The primary question is “Do I have something to add to what has already been said?”. If not, I do not write a post just for the sake of writing a post. Then there are [...]
You can say a lot of things about Steve Jobs the person, but one thing no one in their right mind would say about him is that he did not give his work 100%. The man was by all means OCD about Apple products and his vision for the company’s future. Many have said that Jobs left Apple with over three years of products in the pipeline.
Steve Jobs was a complicated man. Many idolized him, many hated him, but everyone agrees that when it comes to his presenting abilities as well as his vision in the world of design were breath-takingly inspirational. In fact, I believe that is the very reason most people put up with his personal issues of treating people the way he did and displaying the patterns of behavior for which he was well-known.
The competition between Apple and Android is heating up on all fronts and recent ads are just one example. Gone are the days in which Google advertises Google, Samsung advertises Samsung, and Apple advertises Apple.
These things always make me laugh. As technology advances, in many ways it really regresses. For example, as eBook readers improve, the metric is how close the quality of the screen is to a real book. It reminds me of the fantastic cartoon below.
I have a problem. I don’t learn from my mistakes. Let me explain. When Twitter launched and people started telling me I need to get on this new micro blogging platform, I, like many others said “Another Facebook but shorter? Why do I need to update my status in two places?” I was wrong.
While some old-school BlackBerry lovers might be mourning over the recent news, it is pretty clear to almost everyone that RIM is R.I.P. Some made the prediction at the end of 2011 that 2012 would be the year that RIM either goes bankrupt or sells out. Others are now talking about Samsung possibly buying the Canadian mobile giant, but Samsung itself has denied such rumors.
The next time someone tells you that the app ecosystem is too saturated for you to succeed as an app developer, you can point them to this article. If you have an idea for an app, and it’s a good one that has not been done before, you are not competing against the millions of other apps out there, your only obstacle to success is yourself. Let me explain.
