Honey, I bought the Phone. Confessions from the Cambridge Apple Store.
I have a perfectly good Blackberry 8200 series, but I’ve been waiting for a chance to hit the Apple store to check out the iPhone. If you’ve been reading our blog for a while, you know that we’ve been...
View ArticleWhat's the deal with tradeshow demos? (abridged and full versions)
In a blog posting, Steve Johnson of Pragmatic Marketing asks “Why Demo at Trade Shows?” Good question. Abridged version Why demo? Steve writes: Do we think that the product will sell itself? … Instead...
View ArticleiPhone vs. iPod Touch
A few months ago, to much fanfare and (possibly well deserved) hype, Apple released the iPhone. People oohed and ahhed. And a small number (1, 2, 3) OK…lots of people bought them. Then Apple did...
View ArticleStarbucks and iTunes: The new click-and-mortar channel for music?
I wasn’t fortunate enough to be in Seattle or New York today, the initial two cities selected for the launch of the iTunes / Starbucks wifi store. The news is that the user experience is smooth, even...
View ArticleIt Pays To Stay Cool
From Wired, on the iPhone development process: A product manager slammed the door to her office so hard that the handle bent and locked her in; it took colleagues more than an hour and some well-placed...
View ArticleOnProductManagement plagarized!
Hi, I’m sure this happens all the time on the web, but I just ran across 2 – likely related – blogs on Blogspot that have lifted my iPhone vs. IPod Touch article verbatim....
View ArticlePartnering for Strategic Breakthroughs
I thought I’d give this one a dry title – it’s really about the iPhone again. But I thought people would be pretty tired of iPhone posts by now. So, for those of you who don’t follow the iPhone (both...
View ArticleAgile/Scrum Software Development and Product Management
I think ours is the only Product Management blog in the entire blogosphere that has not yet had at least one post on Agile/Scrum software development. That is….until now. I’m not so sure it was a...
View ArticleThe secret to Apple’s success?
If there’s one company that is the envy of the high-tech community these days, it’s Apple. Steve Jobs is hailed as a genius CEO and lauded for a string of hit products. Apple’s market capitalization...
View ArticleAddressing Market Shifts or Why RIM is not down and out just yet
by Saeed Khan If you’ve read anything about Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) lately, it’s likely that the news has not been good. Whether it was the underwhelming response to their Playbook...
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