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Should Tablets Be Cool, Or Is It Good Enough to be a Toy?

Posted on April 18, 2013 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 0 Comments

When Do Tablet Become Cool?

Are tablets cool? Are they tools, or toys? And if tablets are ‘just toys’, is Influency* still part of the discussion?

I’ve owned my Nexus 7 for about nine months now. And as its gestation period has progressed I’ve noticed that this great little tablet has taken a position somewhere between tool and toy. This is partially a matter of practicality and what tablets are well suited for, and partially about my having started using a Chromebook when I’m on the road; the Chromebook is so much more like a ‘real’ computer than that little keyboard-less tablet can ever be and so easy to carry—and reliable for a full day’s battery—that my original plans for using the Nexus 7 have changed. ... READ MORE of Should Tablets Be Cool, Or Is It Good Enough to be a Toy? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (384 words, 1 image, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

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Nate Silver Statistics and Android Journalism

Posted on November 6, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 5 Comments

Nate Silver, Android (And Journalistic Statistics)

Is Nate Silver an Android?

I’d actually enjoy knowing if the most famous statistician in the world uses an iPhone or an Android device (gotta believe it’s Android). Today being Election Day in the USA, I’m at a cross-roads where I ask myself a lot of questions, and here’s the business change message du jour:

You have to be an Android to like Nate Silver.

But not “Android” as in the operating system I choose for my SmartPhones and tablets. I’m talking ‘Android’ as in an actual, not-quite-human machine. Someone who loves facts so much he stops caring about the things that facts effect. ... READ MORE of Nate Silver Statistics and Android Journalism at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (667 words, 1 image, estimated 2:40 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Influency, Media

Nexus 7: Just Try And Sue Google Now, Apple

Posted on July 20, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 1 Comment

Yesterday, my Nexus 7 arrived and I spent a bunch of time digging into it. I’ll have the results for you next week.

Something (almost) even cooler than my new Nexus 7 arrived at Answer Guy Central yesterday. Remember that UK judge who threw out Apple’s lawsuit against Samsung because he ruled that the Galaxy Tab isn’t as cool as the iPad? He’s ordered Apple to publicize his ruling.

Samsung Galaxy Tab Against Apple iPad, and 'Cool'Google Nexus 7 Tab

Given how I feel about software patents, that would be plenty of cool for one day. Justin Bieber, I’m watching you. ... READ MORE of Nexus 7: Just Try And Sue Google Now, Apple at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (388 words, 3 images, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Content, Media

UK Court Rule: iPads are Cool . . . Losing Patent Protection

Posted on July 10, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 5 Comments

I’ve long had concerns about the way patents and trademarks are issued. And while I confess to knowing very little about the systems in place outside the USA, I understand how things work here well enough that one of the things you can hire Answer Guy Central to do for you is Intellectual Property Consulting.

Yesterday, a court in the UK ruled that the Samsung Galaxy Tab, one of the many Android-based tablet computers, doesn’t infringe on Apple’s iPad patents because . . . I’m not kidding . . . the Galaxy Tab “isn’t as cool as the iPad”. ... READ MORE of UK Court Rule: iPads are Cool . . . Losing Patent Protection at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (427 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Content, Design

HTC Sense Android Screen Grab Gets More Evil

Posted on October 4, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 0 Comments

When I talk evil business practice, it’s generally Apple or Google that’s in my cross-hairs. Apple does so many things disguised as features but really designed to dominate markets at its users’ expense that the “Apple is Evil” conversation can go on and on. And Google? I’m still in the search giant’s corner on technical and technicality-based grounds, but for a company that formerly used “Don’t Be Evil” as their unofficial motto there sure is a lot of questionable stuff going on.

Got an HTC-designed Android SmartPhone in your pocket? Heads Up, please; HTC and your phone carrier are watching you. ... READ MORE of HTC Sense Android Screen Grab Gets More Evil at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (454 words, 2 images, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Design

TouchPad Proved iPad a Toy. Now Android Proves it for iPhone

Posted on August 24, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 5 Comments

When they killed the TouchPad, Hewlett Packard proved Apple’s iPad to be just a toy. Now a new study suggests that the iPhone is very much the same thing. In the world of SmartPhones, Android devices are tools, while iPhones are toys. ... READ MORE of TouchPad Proved iPad a Toy. Now Android Proves it for iPhone at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (335 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change

Android and the Brooklyn Bridge: Google Buys Motorola

Posted on August 15, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 0 Comments

What would you do if you had a spare $12.5 billion in cash lying around?

If you were Google and it was today, you’d buy Motorola—or at least the half of Motorola that was split off last year to be in the cell phone and SmartPhone business.

If this wasn’t Google, it would boggle the mind. As it stands, it just … makes sense. ... READ MORE of Android and the Brooklyn Bridge: Google Buys Motorola at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (364 words, 1 image, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

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(Don’t Do This) Starbucks On Android: The App That Takes

Posted on June 17, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 12 Comments

Starbucks Android App Battery Killer

With apologies for its quality (remember, there’s no way to do a screen grab of an Android SmartPhone, so I needed to take a picture to show you this), look at this shot illustrating my SmartPhone’s battery usage during a short period yesterday. See that 13% consumed by the official Starbucks App?

I never once used the Starbucks App during that period. ... READ MORE of (Don’t Do This) Starbucks On Android: The App That Takes at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (543 words, 1 image, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Customer Service

Google To Reign In Android Fragmentation—Maybe

Posted on April 7, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 1 Comment

I’ve been an Android user since Verizon, Motorola, and Google got together and released the original Droid. While my SmartPhone has begun feeling slow and bloated as it’s aged and I’ve added app after app to my mobile arsenal of tools, I love my Droid, and I’m a real Android fan.

The problem with Android, though, is that there are too many versions of the operating system in use. Android comes pre-installed on SmartPhones, and while the geeky among us can make changes, the version you get from your carrier is what you’re stuck with. ... READ MORE of Google To Reign In Android Fragmentation—Maybe at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

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Business Change, Fifteen Pennies At a Time [Square Deal]

Posted on February 24, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 5 Comments

I have this little device in my bag of tricks. It’s called a Square, both because that’s its shape and because Square is the name of the company that manufactures The Square.

Oddly, although there’s no web site to be found at square.com, Square the company is at squareup.com.

The Square lets me accept credit cards. In and of itself that isn’t such a big deal; the days when you needed a special merchant account to take credit cards are long passed, with anyone being able get get paid via credit card just by directing people who owe you money to PayPal. What’s great about the Square, though, is that it plugs into the headphone jack on your SmartPhone (Android or iPhone), and with the help of a simple app lets you scan a credit card, anywhere. ... READ MORE of Business Change, Fifteen Pennies At a Time [Square Deal] at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (543 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Media

Are Older People Too Set In Their Ways To Use SmartPhones?

Posted on September 20, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 8 Comments

I’ve written a couple of times about the problems that markets in general and the specific type of service market that computers and the Internet have created in particular create in deciding between the skills of younger and older workers.

I’ve also been effusive in my praise of the Droid ever since I started using one last November. Really I’m praising the Android operating system; I believe that between its features, distribution, and Google’s amazingly successful play getting others to market it for them that Android is the Smartphone OS. Period. ... READ MORE of Are Older People Too Set In Their Ways To Use SmartPhones? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (488 words, 1 image, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change

Google Kills The Droid? Nah. But Verizon Just Did.

Posted on August 2, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 1 Comment

I’ve expressed concern about the way Google is handling the Android Operation System. I even went so far as to suggest that Google Had Killed The Droid.

Today, Verizon put the nail in that coffin. And it’s about grabbing more of your money. Thanks, guys.

Of course, it shouldn’t come as a surprise when Verizon or any other business tries to make money, and let’s be frank: SmartPhones have a notoriously short shelf life. But with the update to Android 2.2 slated to happen to Verizon’s original Droid this week I find it incredibly short-sighted that Verizon has announced that the update will omit the two most interesting features of the so-called “Froyo” Android update. ... READ MORE of Google Kills The Droid? Nah. But Verizon Just Did. at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (301 words, estimated 1:12 mins reading time)

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You Can and You Should Aren’t the Same: LogMeIn Android

Posted on June 24, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 7 Comments

One of the beautiful things about using SmartPhones like the iPhone, or my Android-based Droid is that I can now access my computer from literally anywhere, and I don’t even need to carry a notebook computer to do it.

Of course, that’s one of the ugly things too; being connected all the time means either that you let your work take over your life or you create rules to prevent that. ... READ MORE of You Can and You Should Aren’t the Same: LogMeIn Android at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (560 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

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HTC Sense Android Phones Capture Screen. So Why Can’t YOU?

Posted on June 18, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 33 Comments

As an Android user, one of the things that I’ve yet to figure out is why there are no Apps to capture what’s on my screen. They just don’t exist.

OK, so that’s not completely true. If I “root” my Droid SmartPhone, meaning tweak it to bypass the regular Android operating system and make it do stuff that Verizon, Motorola, and Google didn’t intend, screen grabs become a possibility. I give up my warranty and any hope for technical support if I even need it, but I gain some control and a feature I often wish I had. ... READ MORE of HTC Sense Android Phones Capture Screen. So Why Can’t YOU? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (241 words, estimated 58 secs reading time)

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SplashData SplashID Version 5 for Android Fixed … Sort Of

Posted on June 4, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 10 Comments

Last November, I wrote a post detailing the customer service issues and software problems with SplashData ‘s SplashID for Android software.

That post is the most popular page on the Internet dealing with the problems in SplashID for Android, and when SplashData pushed an upgrade to SplashID for Android earlier today, I immediately reached out to them.

And they responded quickly. As you may recall, I pointed out how fast SplashData’s customer service response times were back in the original post, and I’m happy to report that hasn’t changed.

<Sigh> ... READ MORE of SplashData SplashID Version 5 for Android Fixed … Sort Of at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (318 words, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Customer Service, Media




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