Articles tagged TV.

Apple and Verizon Ads - A Double-Edged Sword

January 25, 2011 16:06 by: E. Werner Reschke   0 Comments

Categories: Products

Tagged: 4 , Ads , Apple , Commericals , iPhone , TV , verizon

While the ads were made and paid for by two different companies, they both said the same thing — The iPhone 4 is the best phone on the market. Period.

Apple's ad features two iPhone 4's doing the exact same thing — communicating there are now two networks (AT&T and Verizon) for iPhone 4. While the ad is mostly true (Verizon's CDMA network won't allow you to talk and do data transactions at the same time), the commercial sticks with Apple's message continuing to assert the iPhone 4 is the best/only phone you should consider.

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Apple TV — It’s Still a Hobby

December 26, 2010 19:45 by: E. Werner Reschke   0 Comments

Categories: News , Products , Review

Tagged: Apple , Bug , Connectivity , Hobby , TV

300In an October 2008 Financial conference call, Steve Jobs said this about Apple TV, “Well, again, I think the whole category is still a hobby now—nobody has succeeded at it.”

The sad thing is that at the close of 2010 despite successful sales numbers, the second generation Apple TV still behaves like a “hobby”. The Apple Discussion Forum is now littered with over a hundred posts of people struggling to get the Apple TV to see their computers via Home Sharing.

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