Posts Tagged ‘ Mobile ’

Blackberry, I’m one of the restless cattle

Just read a very interesting analysis (which seems to really be lacking in so much of what you read on the web (including sometimes here)) on RIM, their BlackBerry suite of products and while they might look good on paper, the writing is on the wall that they have some real issues ahead of them. I’d [ READ MORE ]

Great post on iPhone4

Mr. Hero is spot on here.  The iPhone4 doesn’t move the needle, but it has made some really funny things. I’ve watched this video over the past month a lot (It’s a little NSFW, especially as it goes on), but I laugh out loud every time. “It (The HTC Evo) can grant up to 3 wishes, even [ READ MORE ]

iphone 4

Now that it’s the summer it seems that your friends at SOTB have had a lackadaisical approach lately with keeping up with posts. Sorry about that. So the iphone 4? Yes that’s a question because as an iphone 3GS owner I just don’t care.  What I mean is, the iphone 4 doesn’t move the needle in [ READ MORE ]

Cellphones and toilets

Mr.Pink just brought to my attention an article in the NYT about Cellphones and toilets in India. It turns out there are more cellphones than toilets.  If you’ve even been to India (I’ve had to launch a product in India and was there for a couple of months) you wouldn’t be surprised at this article [ READ MORE ]

Steve Smith says some good things

Typically, I’m a fan of original content that we build here at SOTB, but every once in a while, it is worth sharing things from others. This article from Steve Smith over at MediaPost was just one of those articles. His rules on what not to do: Stop kicking me out of the app. Bookmark your own app [ READ MORE ]

Foursquare Rocks

Foursquare is the darling child of social media check-ins.  It’s not exactly clear why they are, because there are a lot of other well positioned players in the space, but none of them have gathered the buzz, momentum and fun that these guys have.  Good for @dens and the rest of them! But what’s cool about [ READ MORE ]

Check it out — This is actually working despite the upsell

Lookie, lookie, lookie. The GQ App, which we were talking about back in December, is doing pretty well. It sold 12,000 units for the January issue.  That’s up 2x from the month prior. Not huge numbers but promising. When do you think they will wake up and say, iPhone isn’t an upsell, but really the venue [ READ MORE ]

Droid getting stuck?

The hype over Android phones is pretty huge. And its great to have, as David Pogue put it, another ‘app phone’ in the marketplace, but is the Droid what everyone really wants? When playing around with an Android phone, on a Friday night, err, any other night cooler for playing around with a phone than Friday, [ READ MORE ]

Gentleman’s Quarterly — Classic Blading

Checking out GQ.com, after someone sent me ‘Scary Facebook friends’ (which is worth the read) and noticed that they have an iPhone app (doesn’t everyone these days — but have to admit they are cool and the platform is fun). Peeked in the iTunes store and noticed that GQ is taking the newsstand pricing model [ READ MORE ]

Caught this Ad on Train, but destined to get stuck.

Caught a very slick advertisement for Factset on a train the other day, highlighting their financial data services.  It had a great screen shot of lots of financial information about companies that you would normally see. It looked fast, slick and powerful. The screen shot (and 50% of the ad) was on a Blackberry screen, so [ READ MORE ]