The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Re: our patent application for an evil advertising scheme

http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/11/re-our-patent-application-for-an-evil-advertising-scheme.html

Thus Apple now becomes the cable company. And the cable company dies. Yes, friends, another enormous, ridiculous, old-fashioned, greedy, fat, slow-moving, change-averse, stupid industry falls before the power of Steve. Or, as we call it, "Internet + Steve = you're dead." We did it to music retailers. Doing it now to mobile phone companies. Why not cable TV? These guys are ripe for a takedown.

SDSJ: Why Mainstream Media is Dying

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheSecretDiaryOfSteveJobs/~3/FzWGCAUikW0/why-mainstream-media-is-dying.html

Um, New York Times? If you guys are still wondering why people are dropping their subscriptions and getting their news from blogs instead of you -- this is why.

...As for the newspapers: Faced with their own demise, fearful of losing even more advertising, newspapers have made the huge mistake of becoming ever more timid, more cautious, more in bed with the companies they cover.

It's the exact opposite of what they should be doing. The truth is, if newspapers want to survive they should go back to doing what they started out doing -- muckraking, stirring the shit, calling bullshit.

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NYT: The Motorola Droid

Almost makes me want to switch from my BB bold:
Because not only iPhone'rs are sick of AT&T!!

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=483933&f=24
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100,000 apps - 2B downloads - 50M devices

actually the math on 2B downloads doesn't add up to me. that means every device has downloaded 2000 apps on average. we dont use every app we download but we've only downloaded 93. in fact, those 93 take up about 1G of space on my device. assuming those are average-sized apps, 2000 apps would require 20G of space which some devices dont even have.

and even if you downloaded 5 per day, and didn't use them cause they were junk (entirely possible), it would still take you over a year - 400 days -to get thru 2000. i just dont see it.

CORRECTION - math is wrong. 50M devices/2B downloads = 40 downloads per device. now you're talking. 2000 is the average # of times each app was downloaded - not a very interesting stat, unless you're selling apps for a dollar. Hmm - wonder how much Apple takes as their cut? Even 50% of $2k is not bad. Maybe i *should* go back to programming...

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/11/04appstore.html
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Toyota Accelerator Problems

http://wireless.go.com/wireless/abcnews/section/topstories/8980479_1?&page=5
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Facebook is the "other Internet": 1 in 4 pageviews

lots of interesting stuff going on these days, or maybe i just have less homework...

How to Spam Facebook like a Pro

The underlying premise of all the advertising techniques we’ve discussed so far is that trickery is profitable. Fool them into thinking the new friend request is from Facebook, lie to them that the miracle skin crème is actually free, tell them they’ll earn points if they just click this button – which then puts their email address on a list that’s resold to the top spammers in the world. Incidentally, if you hate someone, sign them up for one of those free offers – it will burn their email to a crisp. Just kidding – don’t do that. The local and big brand advertisers are slow to react, but will eventually shift their ad dollars to Facebook, as they figure out how to advertise effectively. Facebook is the “other Internet” and represents 25% of all pageviews in the US.

Say that again: Facebook Now Accounts for 1 in 4 Internet Pageviews
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