August 28th, 2008
Apple has earned more places in the shortlist of the T3 Gadget Awards ‘08 than any other company. The iPhone, iPod Touch and MacBook Air have been named in categories like “Drop-dead gorgeous award”, the “Gadget of the year”, or the “Gadget you can’t live without”. The winners are chosen by votes from the public, and the results will be announced on 9 October at a grand ceremony. Katherine Hannaford, News Editor of T3.com said, “We’re thrilled to see that so many Apple products have made it through to the shortlist.” Well, naturally, so are we. For those of you who would like to see all the nominees, and cast your vote, visit: http://awards.t3.com/
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August 28th, 2008
James Stinson reports for The Irish Times that Apple is about to open its store in Victoria Square.
ifoAppleStore provides more information, “The interior of the store is nearing completion, and behind a construction barricade the all-glass faade has been erected. The store occupies space U5, on the upper ground-floor of the complex in the Northern Ireland capital of half a million residents. The store will be the first in Northern Ireland, and will open before the holidays, 2008.”
For a look at the store under construction, see http://www.ifoapplestore.com/
For those interested in applying for a position, see http://www.apple.com/jobs/uk/store/
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August 28th, 2008
Gustav Klimt, born July 14, 1862, died February 6, 1918, was one of the most important and prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau movement, and was an Austrian Symbolist painter. His works include murals, sketches, paintings, other art objects.
The Tate Liverpool presentation is the first comprehensive exhibition of Klimt’s work ever offered in the UK. This exhibition focuses on the artist’s life and work, exploring Klimt’s role as the founder and leader of the Viennese Secession, which embraced art, architecture, fashion and decorative objects, including furniture. Major paintings and drawings which span the breadth of Klimt’s career are shown, along with the work of architect and designer, Josef Hoffman, who was a close friend of the artist. The show has been a sell-out, and will close 31 August.
But if you haven’t been able to get there, the Tate is offering a free download of the show tour online at
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/gustavklimt/tour.shtm
It can be downloaded onto your iPod with video, your iPod Touch or your iPhone. The multimedia tour offers informationn about Klimt’s life, the historical times and his art, offering photographs of Klimt and his circle of friends. It also offers music of the time period, comments from museum curators, film recordings from archives, and behind-the-scenes information on how this Tate exhibition was conceived, planned and implemented.
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August 27th, 2008
According to Benjamin Gray of Forrester Research, Mac adoption among business users has quadrupled since 2006. What that means is that user percentage went from 1.1% in October 2006, to 3.6% a year later, and then to 4.5% in June 2007. These numbers appear small, but are extremely significant, says Joe Wilcox of eWeek, “Mac continues its slow gain among Forrester’s clients, even without an enterprise strategy. Apple’s singular focus on user experience has resulted in some success in the enterprise without even trying to break into the market.”
Wilcox claims that Apple doesn’t have a business strategy, and that this increase in the enterprise is happening largely as a halo effect of the iPhone and strong iPod branding and sales. Why? Because these very successful products boost visibility and sales of other Apple products, such as Apple computers, and in turn, this has lured enthusiasts and small workgroups with supple IT departments beyond the standard domain of design and media.” Is this true? Perhaps those successful products have brought new consumers into the Apple world but it has to be the line of Macs themselves which convinced buyers to make a purchase. To say otherwise isn’t giving the consumer much credit.
According to the Forrester report, in order to attract wider sales in the Enterprise, Apple should reduce prices and liberalise its controls over Mac repair, upgrade and servicing. What the report doesn’t seem to understand is that it is precisely Apple’s control over its tech support and servicing that assures maintainence of high quality of customer tech support. By relaxing those controls, there would be a risk that the kind of shoddy support Windows PC users suffer would undermine what has always been an important part of the Apple experience. It is precisely that ’singular focus on user experience’ that has resulted in such customer loyalty.
The expectation is that this quarter will see over 3 million Mac sales. It is hard to understand why Apple will shift gears at this point to change its repair or service model.
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