"The product pipeline will take years to screw up," says Bob Hoffman. "The ad pipeline can be screwed up in no time."
iPod poster. Source: Apple Inc.
Bob Hoffman is pessimistic about the future of Apple (AAPL) without Steve Jobs at the helm.
The San Francisco-based advertising executive who writes a blog called The Ad Contrarian and a slim volume of aphorisms by the same name doesn't buy the consensus that, as MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 31, 2011 6:26 AM ET
Another big partnership will allow Google to sell ad spots on Verizon FiOS TV.
There seems to be no end to the business opportunities for Google (GOOG) and Verizon (VZ). Not only are the two companies building a strong Android coalition on Verizon's wireless network (and co-authoring net-neutrality proposals), today Verizon signed up with GoogleTV ads on its FiOS network.
Today we've strengthened the reach of the Google TV Ads platform even further by MORE
Seth Weintraub - Nov 18, 2010 1:47 PM ET
Google's China site is reporting that the only major service running in China is Gmail.
Update: Google confirms that the Chinese government hasn't blocked Google, it is just an error in its reporting mechanism.
Because of the way we measure accessibility in China, it's possible that our machines could overestimate the level of blockage. That seems to be what happened last night when there was a relatively small blockage. It appears MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jul 29, 2010 6:30 PM ET
Like a politician with high approval ratings, Apple (AAPL) has responded to Microsoft's (MSFT) attack ads by ignoring them.
After a four-month hiatus with no new "Get a Mac" spots, Apple released four in a row Sunday (available at Apple's website and pasted below the fold).
None of them deal with the charge Microsoft has been hammering home in a series of 60-second TV ads and a quasi-independent "white paper": that spec-for-spec, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 20, 2009 9:20 AM ET
We're not the first to spot this -- credit goes to Brian X. Chen at Wired's Gadget Lab -- but a site that endeavors to present news from outside Steve Jobs' reality distortion field couldn't let Apple's unusual legal argument in Gillis, et al. v. Apple, Inc. et al. pass without comment.
The case was originally filed last August in a California Superior Court by William Gillis, a 70-year-old San Diego MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 5, 2008 12:52 PM ET
The British Advertising Standards Authority is nothing if not literal-minded -- which may be why Apple ads that hew closely to Steve Jobs' standards of truth in advertising keep running into trouble in the United Kingdom.
Last summer the Authority banned an Apple TV ad with a voiceover that said "all the parts of the Internet are on the iPhone." Objection: there are many parts of the Internet requiring Flash and MORE
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