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Adobe ad man tapped to run Apple’s struggling iAd service

by Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Jan 4, 2012 • No Comments

Taking another crack at the $1.23 billion market for ads on tablets and mobile phones

According to several sources, Apple has hired Adobe vice president Todd Teresi to head its iAd mobile advertising service, a position that has been vacant since last summer.

iAd was one of those projects Steve Jobs launched with great fanfare but which...

Apple 2.0 (Fortune) / Publishers

Who can compete with iPad on price?

by Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Feb 7, 2011 • No Comments
A leaked ad has the Motorola Xoom selling for $300 more than the entry level iPad Not only does Apple's (AAPL) iPad have what Steve Jobs and Tim Cook like to call a first mover advantage, but it seems to have a big edge over its competitors on sticker price as well. Engadget has posted...
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The iPhone as Barbie Doll

by Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Jan 30, 2011 • No Comments
The New York Times reaches for new metaphors to illuminate the power of Apple's platform The U.S. interstate highway system is a "platform," writes Steve Lohr in Sunday's New York Times business section. "The more that people traveled it, the more opportunity it created for businesses and towns linked to its transportation network — and...
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A fantastic use for Apple’s cash

by Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Jan 23, 2011 • No Comments
Tim Cook thinks he knows how to put $59.7 billion to good use One of the things that's keeping Apple's (AAPL) market cap from overtaking Exxon Mobil's (XOM) -- besides Steve Jobs' health problems and the world's unquenchable thirst for petroleum products -- is the fear that the company will do something stupid with the...
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RIM to Apple: Bring it on!

by Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Nov 16, 2010 • No Comments
It's the PlayBook vs. the iPad in a side-by-side video comparison Research in Motion (RIMM) has posted a YouTube video in which Apple's (AAPL) iPad compares unfavorably to RIM's new PlayBook tablet in terms of browser speed, HTML5 performance and, duh, Adobe (ADBE) Flash support. One comparison not mentioned in the video: The iPad has...
Apple 2.0 (Fortune) / Publishers

How to see Flash on an iPhone

by Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Nov 2, 2010 • No Comments
Skyfire CEO Jeffrey Glueck explains how his newly approved browser works The Skyfire browser, which has been downloaded more than 1.5 million times on Google (GOOG) Android devices, has just been approved as an application for Apple's (AAPL) App Store. It goes on sale at 9 a.m. EDT Thursday for $2.99. The app gets around...
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Why Apple won’t buy Facebook – or Sony

by Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Oct 26, 2010 • No Comments
Or Disney, Yahoo, Adobe, Tivo, Netflix, EA or any of the big names tossed out last week The $51 billion in cash and marketable securities that Apple (AAPL) reported last Monday -- double its holdings two years ago (see chart)  -- has been burning a hole ever since in everybody's pocket but Steve Jobs'. The...
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Apple mends a few fences

by Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Sep 19, 2010 • No Comments
With partners, developers, competitors and maybe some regulatory agencies One of Apple's (AAPL) weaknesses as a company -- as even Steve Jobs will admit -- is that it isn't a particularly good neighbor. Like its co-founder and CEO, it can be secretive, prickly and quick to take offense. Witness, for example, the 121 pending lawsuits...
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Adobe on Apple: Our glass is half full

by Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Sep 10, 2010 • No Comments
Flash apps are already getting approved, but there's still no Flash in the mobile browser Confusion reigned for much of Thursday following Apple's (AAPL) announcement that it was lifting its restrictions on development tools for iPhone apps. Wall Street, assuming that this meant that Adobe (ADBE) has won its long-running Flash battle with Steve Jobs,...
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Why did Apple lift its ban on apps written in Flash?

by Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Sep 9, 2010 • No Comments
Steve Jobs once called Flash the No. 1 reason his devices crash. What changed his mind? With a terse, five-paragraph statement issued Thursday morning, Apple (AAPL) reversed a five-month-old policy that had sparked an industry-wide debate, a government probe and tens of thousands of words of heated commentary -- including Steve Jobs' own April 2010...
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Tough slogging for iPad knockoffs

by Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Sep 3, 2010 • No Comments
Many will try, few will survive, says an Asian manufacturer working on several of them Two new tablet computers based on Google's (GOOG) Android operating system -- one from Samsung, the other by Toshiba -- were introduced at a trade show in Berlin this week, part of a wave of knockoff designs inspired by Apple's...
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Apple needs to cool its rhetoric

by Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Jun 15, 2010 • No Comments
No longer an industry underdog, the company must tread more carefully, says an analyst In a note to clients issued Tuesday, Barclays Capital's Ben Reitzes has added his voice to the chorus of commentators with free advice for Apple's (AAPL) executive team, now that it's caught the eye of federal regulators. The Federal Trade Commission...

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