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Comment on Tim Cook’s Apple: the one Apple story to read today by edanderson

edanderson — Sun, 27 May 2012 23:29:36 +0000

I wonder why no one ever questions the pervasive view that Jobs’ passing was the end of Apple. Have you ever known anyone with Pancreatic cance, and had to have chemo and radiation treatments….and took two years off separately to recover. And everyone buys the argument that Jobs was intimately involved with all product ideas since his cancer turned bad in 2005? Newsflash, chemo and radiation are completely debilitating. I suspect Tim Cook has been somewhat selfless not taking credit for much if any of Apple’s success the last 4-5 years. I for one don’t buy arm chair journalists who purport to know everything.

Comment on The cost of losing a customer’s trust by ctsmithiii

ctsmithiii — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:51:46 +0000

The cost of losing a customer’s trust is the remaining lifetime value of the customer which most companies aren’t able to compute.

I agree that people are concerned with the security of their personal data (i.e., identity, financial, healthcare) with regard to the potential for identity theft.

Having just attended a conference on marketing to millennials, there seems to be little, to no, concern about data related to web use and buying habits among the younger generation. I would think older generations will become more comfortable with this assuming their identity is not compromised.

Comment on New Orleans, newspapers and the beginning of the end by Darrell

Darrell — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:16:00 +0000

What a shame that the Newhouse organization never realized how to run a paper–anywhere it seems. How tragic for the people of New Orleans–and fine paper bites the dust and journalists are reduced to, well, nothing.

Comment on How many Apple IDs should your family have? by Amanda Pierce

Amanda Pierce — Sun, 27 May 2012 21:46:20 +0000

It’s a lot easier to take the time to teach people how to have multiple accounts on the machine. Windows has had this for ages, so has the Mac. But so many people are way too used to the “fire up the new HP lappy, auto-log in as “user” or “Administrator” and never sort things out.”

Teaching people that they can have their own account where they’re responsible for their own data is easier. Shared accounts are just a kludge now.

Comment on How many Apple IDs should your family have? by janey

janey — Sun, 27 May 2012 21:43:39 +0000

You should see the Google mess that I had last year. Apple IDs are a snap…

Comment on New Orleans, newspapers and the beginning of the end by Mark Rogers

Mark Rogers — Sun, 27 May 2012 21:42:48 +0000

As I understand it, you advocate a value-added section as a better way to go than paywalls. The Globe and Mail had something like this called Globe Insider, but abandoned it in 2008 for the more limited Globe Plus. Now they’re creating with a paywall. What are your thoughts on this?

Comment on How many Apple IDs should your family have? by Jen

Jen — Sun, 27 May 2012 21:37:54 +0000

Yes, apps as well as music can be shared from different accounts on IOS devices now through iCloud. And really…..logging in to account, downloading content to your phone, then logging out is a pain?

If worried about getting content from another account in your iTunes account on your computer, you just home share music content. All the other coordination with one account is a ten times more painful!

Comment on Meet the startup that wants to speed up U.S. broadband by Thomas Bleha

Thomas Bleha — Sun, 27 May 2012 21:17:27 +0000

I would be surprised if North Korea has a gigabit network. Thomas Bleha

Comment on New Orleans, newspapers and the beginning of the end by Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 27 May 2012 20:49:09 +0000

52nd largest in the US. Smaller than Fresno, Colorado Springs and Bakersfield.

Comment on Mobile payments coming to a loyalty/deals app near you by Rye Campbell

Rye Campbell — Sun, 27 May 2012 20:25:01 +0000

The free iPod Touch from Groupon sounds awesome. Still 1.8% is nothing compared to mPowa’s .25%. And most importantly, I won’t be able to use this card reader when I move to the UK. I’d stick with mPowa (www.mpowa,com) as my first choice there.