July 19, 2009How long can Apple keep getting away with it?

It says something that I wasn’t even surprised when I read this tidbit of news: iTunes blocks rival smartphones. Essentially someone’s come along with a third party product that rivals the iPhone, that has plug-and-play capacity with iTunes. And Apple have blocked it.

“Oh, we don’t test third party applications or hardware, so if they stop working, that’s not our problem,” Apple cry. It strikes me as pretty obvious that this is deliberate.

As a Mac user for almost all of this decade, I’ll just come right out and say this. Apple have been in a steady…

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July 10, 2009Guilty Pleasures

Confidence speaks volumes, doesn’t it? Despite being totally out of the blog’s target demographic, I’ve been reading

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June 28, 2009King of Shaves

The story of a successful product launch…

I hate paying for razor blades. But beards are for students and hippies, and I’m neither — any more. So when my old Wilkinson Sword broke, I nearly cried. ‘Another expense,’ I muttered, cursing the fact I’d have to fork out for a new razor on top of the usual mountain of blades it takes to trim my thick-and-fast stubble every month.

Hurrying through the toiletries aisle, my eyes were drawn straight to the King of Shaves, a relative newcomer to the market. I picked one up because of the price. They’re…

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