Tag: iPhone

  • Microsoft’s iPhone Funeral: A Marketing Misfire of Epic Proportions

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    The Bizarre Parade That Backfired Picture this: It’s 10 September 2010, and Microsoft employees are parading through the company’s Redmond campus with hearses, oversized iPhone and BlackBerry coffins, and an assortment of Halloween-esque costumes. No, this isn’t a fever dream or a scene from a quirky tech-themed horror film. It’s Microsoft’s actual celebration of Windows…

    Microsoft's iPhone Funeral
  • Barclaycard terms and conditions, a sign of the times

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    This a poor sign of the times…multiple copies of Barclaycard terms and conditions. Let me share the story of their arrival. I upgraded my iPhone. As a big fan of Apple Pay, I needed to add a few cards to my new phone and a couple of Apple Watches. I duly did this and accepted…

  • How We Work at Appitized

    And this is how we work at Appitized… We are multi-award-winning mobile app developers based in the UK. We design and develop mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets working closely with our clients to turn their app ideas into reality. Appitized have a large team of iPhone App Developers & Android App…

  • The Apple iPhone and NFC

    I’ve been talking a fair bit this week about some of the commercial and consumer challenges regarding mobile payments and NFC. I even had one crazy conversation with a lady that felt that a YouGov survey on the subject was flawed as it disagreed with her opinion. The reality is that NFC is not going…

  • Apple’s iPhone gets Japanese earthquake alert

    Japanese iPhone users will get the option to receive earthquake alerts under the next version of Apple’s iOS operating system. 9to5Mac reports that the feature will be added to the device’s notification centre in iOS 5, which is expected to be released in September. via BBC News – Apple’s iPhone gets Japanese earthquake alert.

  • Amazon Kindle e-book downloads outsell paperbacks

    Wow, what a great headline. And if the numbers are all kosher it is an amazing take-off for Kindle. Amazon has announced that in the US it sold more e-books for its Kindle device than it sold paperback books in the last three months of 2010. via BBC News – Amazon Kindle e-book downloads outsell…