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“Welcome to Mac” Docu Film to be Aired on CNBC

March 31, 2023 By Arnold Zafra

If you haven’t had the chance to watch the independently produced documentary “Welcome to Macintosh”, mark your calendar on January 4 as CNBC is about to bring this docu film to the American Television.  The airing starts at 9:30PM ET during the show “First in Business Worldwide.”

According to the documentary’s co-director Rob Roca, airing their film on CNBC is like finding a perfect home for them.

We took the people and the passion felt for Apple seriously, and CNBC provides the ideal venue for informative and entertaining content to be presented.

Josh Rizzo, the other co-director said that this is perfect opportunity to share what they have been evangelizing about in the film – explain why so many people love the Macintosh in a way that even those who have never used a computer will understand and appreciate the Mac’s value.

While watching the teaser, I couldn’t help but admire the tenacity by which the film was created.  No wonder, even Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder couldn’t help but admire it and calls it one of the best independent film he has seen by far, when the film was screened during the Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.

The film has been going around various Macintosh User Groups globally as well as in several film festivals but this is the first time that it will be shown on national television.

Let’s see whether the film will successfully bring more Mac converts into the fold.

Originally posted on December 29, 2009 @ 6:46 pm

Filed Under: Apple, Television Tagged With: Apple, cnbc, macintosh

Joel Comm Appeals to Steve Jobs for iPhone App Approval

March 31, 2023 By Mike Abundo

Love him or hate him, Internet marketer Joel Comm has been bringing us fun stuff decade after decade. In 1996, he founded the company that Yahoo bought and turned into Yahoo Games. At the end of 2008, he released iFart Mobile, which spent three weeks at the top of the iPhone app charts.

That’s why Apple CEO Steve Jobs should listen to Joel when he vents his frustration over the rejection of his latest iPhone app — especially when the app store carries so many other applications with similar functionalities.

Joel’s appeal should help remind Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller that, contrary to his deluded claims, developers are not happy with the arbitrary and opaque iPhone store approval process.

Originally posted on November 27, 2009 @ 7:09 am

Filed Under: Apple, Gadgets, iPhone, Mobile Tagged With: Apple, Gadgets, iPhone, Joel Comm, Mobile

Apple’s Phil Schiller Says Devs Like Getting Screwed

March 31, 2023 By Mike Abundo

Phil SchillerApple founder and CEO Steve Jobs openly admits to experimenting with LSD in his youth. Apparently, Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller is high on crack. According to Schiller, developers are happy with the iPhone’s app approval process.

Most are approved and some are sent back to the developer. In about 90% of those cases, Apple requests technical fixes—usually for bugs in the software or because something doesn’t work as expected, Schiller says. Developers are generally glad to have this safety net because usually Apple’s review process finds problems they actually want to fix, he says.

Oh really, Phil? So Facebook developer Joe Hewitt is happy that you’re setting “a horrible precedent for other software platforms”? So Google is happy that you lied about the rejection of the Google Voice iPhone app?

Seriously Phil, lay off the drugs. They’re frying your brain. I don’t know who’s more deluded: you or Carol Bartz.

Originally posted on November 23, 2009 @ 6:42 am

Filed Under: Apple, iPhone Tagged With: Apple, iPhone, Phil Schiller

The Genius of Droid’s Geeky Marketing

March 31, 2023 By Mike Abundo

For weeks, I’ve been hearing Apple fanboys pan Verizon’s Motorola Droid ads as too geeky and unappealing for the mass market. I’ve been hearing fanboys claim that nongeeks can’t understand “open development”, that they’d be scared off by images of stealth bombers. Then I read an essay by Paul Graham about the abuses of the iPhone app store, and I suddenly realize the genius of Verizon’s nongeek-alienating marketing strategy. [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 20, 2009 @ 10:33 am

Filed Under: Apple, Gadgets, Google, iPhone, Mobile Tagged With: Android, Apple, Droid, Gadgets, Google, iPhone, Mobile, Motorola, Paul Graham, Verizon

Apple approves 100,000th app, and then some

March 27, 2023 By Andy Merrett

The road to application approval hasn’t always been smooth, with apps approved and then pulled, or outright banned on rather shaky grounds, but that hasn’t stopped Apple powering to 100,000 approved apps in the iTunes App Store.

The web site Appshopper.com has counted 102,485 approved applications and 93,659 available.

That’s a mind-boggling number, and unfortunately says nothing about the quality of those applications. Bear in mind that there are many variations on the same theme, and some (a lot) of them are complete and utter rubbish. [Read more…]

Originally posted on October 30, 2009 @ 11:01 am

Filed Under: Apple, iPhone, iTunes, Mobile Tagged With: app, Apple, iPhone, ipod, iTunes

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