You will be able to buy a gift card and tell the seller how much you want it to have as credit
You will be able to buy a gift card and tell the seller how much you want it to have as credit
Talk about build to order prices:
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Maps's problems were to do with PR and transition, the product itself is great.
Explains that Apple is about reaching your subconscious. You might not necessarily understand why you want to go back to the store or why you like your iPad so much and keep picking it up, but that's what Apple works on the most. Again, the pleasure factor, not the number of features, not how big, how cheap, how small, it's the overall nicety of the device/store that makes you want to go back.
Most people don't realise why Apple does not make the macbook air a bit bigger and give it an ethernet port. They don't understand Apple. they will not compromise the pleasure factor (or "reward" in neurology) for anything else.
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Courts believe that Samsung is still, in some of it's devices using Apple's technology.
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Reviews are pretty negative. After the initial hype of the nice-looking interface, they find the OS buggy, clunky and frustrating, especially when forced back to the desktop mode.
If I was Balmer I would be worried. The failure of the Zune, Windows Phone...not a huge problem, they are new markets for them. But windows is their bread and butter, if they don't get this right, it could be the end of Microsoft, things go down really quickly in this industry.
Balmer has spent enough time there to make me realise he has no vision. Time for a new leader. I think the board will realise that within the next year. He's out!
Monica Chen and Joseph Tsai, reporting for DigiTimes:
The upstream supply chain of Microsoft’s Surface RT has recently seen the tablet’s orders reduced by half, and with other Windows RT-based tablet orders also seeing weak performance,
Separate the two, stop thinking of numbers and traditional marketing for once!
You tried for years with tablets. He's looking at this all wrong!
Being there quickly is important, but the experience is wrong.
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It's getting very close to the end of November,