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The $24 Smile from Apple’s iPhone 5

Posted on September 13, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 4 Comments

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See this smile? It’s Apple making $100 million in ancillary revenue, all while staying on the right side of European lawmakers.

In Europe, where all SmartPhones are mandated to have the same MicroUSB connector that so many phones in the States and elsewhere have, Apple had a problem on its hands with the new iPhone 5. Turns out that any exemption Apple had for the existing plug on all iDevices stretching back to the very first iPod went out the window when Apple redesigned the plug on the iPhone 5. ... READ MORE of The $24 Smile from Apple’s iPhone 5 at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (464 words, 1 image, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Design

So Now That Siri Has Been Around for A While . . .

Posted on April 24, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 4 Comments

I know a thing or two about Virtual Assistants. Virtual VIP helps our clients get stuff done. I’ll stop short of saying “whatever you need done, we do for you”, but it’s close.

Apple’s Siri, despite what you might have seen on television commercials, is not a Virtual Assistant. In fact, forget what Samuel L. Jackson and Zoey Deschanel have to say on the subject, most people will find that interactions with Siri go more like this one (NSFW):

The Siri Rock God Commercial, Reimagined

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Filed Under: Business Change

Apple’s Siri Can Run on Any SmartPhone, Any Computer

Posted on November 21, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 7 Comments

You’ve seen those commercials, right? People with the latest version of the iPhone just speak and things magically happen, courtesy of the very cool (I’m not kidding; it is very cool) Siri Virtual Assistant software built into the iPhone 4S.

Apple, when asked if Siri would be coming to earlier versions of the iPhone, said it couldn’t be done; the newest iPhone is so more powerful than even its most recent predecessor that Siri won’t run on it—or won’t run in a way that’s up to Apple’s performance standards. ... READ MORE of Apple’s Siri Can Run on Any SmartPhone, Any Computer at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (537 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Customer Service, Media

Google Worries. (Siri on iPhone 4S NOT a Virtual Assistant)

Posted on October 13, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 5 Comments

Any second now, Apple’s iPhone 4S is going to be “real”. October 14 is the official launch date for the latest version of iPhone, and once it’s “out” people will be walking around talking to their phones, giving us all something new to be frustrated by and driving a new wedge between manners and technology.

As I told you when Steve Jobs left us last week, I’m actually considering moving from my nearly-two-year old Droid to an iPhone. And I like Android. A lot. And my issues with Apple are huge. The new iPhone is that good. ... READ MORE of Google Worries. (Siri on iPhone 4S NOT a Virtual Assistant) at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (518 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change

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

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)

Filed Under: Business Change

Stealing Movies, Jailbreaking SmartPhones Now Legal

Posted on July 27, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 4 Comments

We have a legal system in the USA that’s meant to ensure nobody gets railroaded by a single party with an agenda to fulfill. And while the Internal Revenue Service gets to act as judge, jury, and executioner, most everything that doesn’t involve taxes takes the cooperation of many parties to resolve.

I have a new fear of respect for the Library of Congress.

The folks who previously started archiving the entire stream of drivel scrolling through Twitter have ruled (umm . . . overridden law) that certain portions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act just  don’t count. What was illegal is now . . . not ... READ MORE of Stealing Movies, Jailbreaking SmartPhones Now Legal at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (374 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Content

Apple iPhone OS 4.0: A Beginning, or Beginning of the End?

Posted on April 9, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 10 Comments

Business Change is a odd thing. We all know we have to be constantly changing our businesses to adapt to … well, changing business … but should business change be active or passive? Proactive or reactive?

And is it ever a good idea to anger your suppliers?

Apple has announced the next generation of operating system software for the iPhone. OS 4.0 will bring the iPhone more or less to parity with what’s developed over the last couple of years for Google’s Android operating system and made popular on devices like the Droid, and make no mistake: Apple had to address the problems in iPhone OS. So hooray for Jobs & Company; Steve has shown that he understands that arrogantly pushing forth into the places he says are “right” all the time isn’t a viable long-term strategy. ... READ MORE of Apple iPhone OS 4.0: A Beginning, or Beginning of the End? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (666 words, estimated 2:40 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change

Business Changes in Phone Apps? Not at Mobile World Congress

Posted on February 17, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 0 Comments

This week in Barcelona, Spain a conference called Mobile World Congress is happening. The attendees are employees of some of the world’s biggest and most influential companies: AT&T, Apple Computer, Motorola, Google, Microsoft.

Their goal? To consolidate the market for the software that runs on SmartPhones. Summing it up if you’re from Apple, you might say: “there’s an app for that, but only if you use an iPhone”.

So let’s see: Apple, the undisputed leader in the SmartPhone market (but losing share quickly to Android), would like everyone’s software to run on everyone else’s phones? And Microsoft, who have released yet another version of their phone software, is looking to be cooperative with their competitors? ... READ MORE of Business Changes in Phone Apps? Not at Mobile World Congress at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (378 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Development, Uncategorized

Why More People Don’t Use an iPhone

Posted on August 24, 2009 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 3 Comments

Simple: Because They Don’t Get It.

I’m not about to go off on a the-iPhone-is-the-best-thing-since-sliced-bread rant. In fact, let me state, right here, right now, for the record, that I am not a user, and on my last birthday was offered one as a gift and just couldn’t do it. I TRIED, by the way. I went to an AT&T Store, explained to a very nice associate that I needed to be left alone to play with one, was set up to do so, spent nearly an hour, and walked away hating the iPhone. ... READ MORE of Why More People Don’t Use an iPhone at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (514 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

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