Product Description
On October 23, 2001, Apple Computer, a company known for its chic, cutting-edge technology — if not necessarily for its dominant market share — launched a product with an enticing promise: You can carry an entire music collection in your pocket. It was called the iPod. What happened next exceeded the company’s wildest dreams. Over 50 million people have inserted the device’s distinctive white buds into their ears, and the iPod has become a global obsession. The Pe… More >>

The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness

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MediaPost reports that Apple’s next next big thing, after iPads invade the world next weekend, will be iAd, a mobile advertising platform to be debuted April 7. Coffee dates and patent suits aside , this could be the true Apple-Google battleground.

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Even as the buzz builds toward the April 3rd ship date of the iPad, Apple is preparing to announce its “next big thing” — a new personalized, mobile advertising system that could well be called the “iAd” — Online Media Daily has learned.

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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Platform shifts Mainframe to Mini to PC to Mobile.  Why leaders fail to make the shift  —  Platform shifts happen every decade or so in computing.  The leaders of the previous generation are rarely successful in dominating the next generation platform.  IBM dominated the mainframe business.

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Overheard: Steve Jobs Says Apple Tablet “Will Be The Most Important Thing I’ve Ever Done.”  —  “This will be the most important thing I’ve ever done” – Steve Jobs, referring to the soon-to-be-launched Apple Tablet.  —  We haven’t heard this first hand, but we’ve heard it multiple times second …

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