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India: Rx for 7-inch Android mobile tablets?

September 1, 2011
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It’s raining Android tablets in India. Samsung entered the market at a 30K price point. Within months, we’ve seen announcements and advertising support for a slew of 7-inch tablets, at the 10-13k range. Aside from big players like RIM, Reliance and Airtel there are several others (some totally unheard of) in the fray: HCL Me, Fujezone, [...]

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Thank You, Steve Jobs

August 25, 2011
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It’s common for celebrities and statesmen to evoke feelings of adulation from the public. We all have our role models in the sports arena, we may admire some politicians or film stars. We feel happy when they achieve success and sad when something bad happens to them. And all this even if we’ve never met [...]

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Google, Motorola and iOS

August 21, 2011
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Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility has been hailed as an excellent strategic move. Pundit’s have praised Google for outwitting Apple & Microsoft in the battle for smartphones. Many have alluded to Motorola’s trove of patents as the trigger behind this move. Some, notably Apple blogs, have declared this as a vindication of the Apple Way [...]

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Android experience of an Apple fan

July 31, 2011
Android experience of an Apple fan

My first experience of Apple was through the Mac OS 9. Compared to whatever Windows version we were using then (’98, ME, 2000 etc.) I found it far more elegant, trust worthy and classy. Yes, one had major compatibility issues when it came to file transfers, network sharing etc. I even bought a copy of DAVE [...]

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Apple Way of Marketing and the rest of us

June 20, 2011
Apple Way of Marketing and the rest of us

Much has already been written about the secrets of Apple’s marketing success – in the form of blog posts and books. But the topic continues to fascinate tech & marketing pundits. Two aspects of Apple’s marketing – retail and advertising strategy were talked about in two recent articles. The Wall Street Journal wrote about the [...]

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Locationgate and the undue obsession with Apple

April 29, 2011
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So Apple finally sent out an official response to the location-tracking controversy this week. For almost 10 days prior to that many have been getting their knickers in a twist over the location tracking system in iPhones & iPads. Sure, companies should not take undue advantage of a user’s personal information that it may gather. [...]

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Tablets, new media aggregators & newspapers

April 26, 2011
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Tablets were proclaimed to be the saviours of the ailing newspaper & magazine industry in the US. Several newspapers and magazines have launched their iPad versions by now and not a single one has claimed success. Even the ‘designed for iPad from the ground up’ like The Daily hasn’t quite created the stir it was [...]

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