Tag Archives: Apple

60,000 Droids a Day Keep the Apple Away

February 22, 2010 – 6:10 am

Right now it seems every company wants to build an iPhone app. Yet given that 60,000 Android phones ship every day, one has to wonder how much longer Apple will have a lock on shiny object syndrome du jour (image by Andrew Mason).
That’s roughly 5.4 million a quarter, and the numbers continue accelerating [...]

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Get Mobile Now

January 25, 2010 – 2:54 am

Image by fotoboer
This morning I am speaking at the first ever Social Media Breakfast in Washington, DC. The featured topic is, “What trends or predictions do you believe will prevail? How can we be visionaries in a space as dynamic as social media?” The answer? Get mobile now.
From the incredible outpouring of donations for Haiti [...]

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The Battle for the Mobile Internet Begins

December 28, 2009 – 8:10 am

War was declared a long time ago, but now the battle finally begins in earnest.  2010 marks the year that Google Android and its many manufacturer and carrier partners took on Apple and its exclusive wireless carriers. The final prize?  The primary determinant of the third web boom, the mobile Internet.
All the other handset [...]

By Geoff Livingston | Posted in Internet Marketing | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (8)

A Jobsian Void?

June 8, 2009 – 8:25 pm

Today’s lackluster iPhone announcement at the Apple WorldWide Developers Conference left rabid online fanatics disappointed and wanting more. The letdown has to leave many customers, potential buyers and investors wondering now that Jobs is gone as CEO, “Is this the beginning of the end?”
Perhaps what made today so disappointing was the incredible tension and [...]

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Green + WIRED = Sexy

May 17, 2009 – 7:00 pm

Now that almost everyone across the political spectrum agrees that we are facing an ecological crisis, the main challenge of the green movement seems to be getting people to actually change behaviors. But this challenge is greater than it seems. It involves changing lifestyles that have become central to our culture for the past 100 [...]

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Reputation Management Means Embracing Your Errors

April 23, 2009 – 10:46 am

Lindsay Lohan’s eHarmony Profile from Lindsay Lohan
Issues happen. Mistakes are made.  Reputations become tarnished.  This is the way of the world, particularly when an error occurs after a company brand achieves leadership or a human being becomes famous. Sometimes gaffes or human nature takes precedence, and depending on how a company or person handles it, [...]

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