Category Archives: apple

The experience is the product

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

Apple retail stores celebrated their 10th anniversary last week. The stores have defied all analyst expectations and have become the highest grossing retailers in the world. The company’s market cap exceeds all of the other players in tech. Its $5,000 … Continue reading →

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Why Apple is right on subscriptions

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

Apple has built an incredibly valuable distribution platform. It’s perfectly reasonable for them to say “if you make money using our platform, we want a piece of it.” Distribution costs money. Facebook charges developers on its platform 30% for using … Continue reading →

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The Daily is a solid effort facing huge challenges

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

Today we saw the unveiling of Rupert Murdoch’s new iPad-based newspaper, The Daily. It looks very different from apps from the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today. The impression is distinctly more of a magazine … Continue reading →

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Apple and Google make their big push to TV screen

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Rakesh Agrawal

This year has seen the biggest push yet to bring the Internet (or parts of it) to the biggest screen in the house. The newly revamped Apple TV started arriving in stores and homes last week. Logitech is announcing the … Continue reading →

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EVO vs. iPhone

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Rakesh Agrawal

I’ve been using an HTC EVO since last Friday. As an iPhone user for the last two years, this is the first Android phone that has appealed to me. CrunchGear has a good comparison of the technical specs of the iPhone … Continue reading →

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Can Google cross the retail chasm with Google TV?

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Rakesh Agrawal

Last week, Google announced Google TV, a product that marries the Web with TV. It’s a product category that I’ve been excited about for several years. But creating new product categories is hard. Retail is hard. Doing both together is … Continue reading →

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iPhone design pet peeve #2: moving app icons

Posted on September 20, 2008 by Rakesh Agrawal

The App Store is one of the key strengths of the iPhone. You can easily find, purchase and install applications that increase the utility of the iPhone. Steve Jobs claims that more than 100 million downloads have occurred in the … Continue reading →

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iPhone design pet peeve #1: address book access

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Rakesh Agrawal

I’ve had the 3G iPhone for a couple of months now. During that time I’ve had the same complaints that most others have had: virtually nonexistent 3G coverage, anemic battery life and frequent crashes. But there are also details of … Continue reading →

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I am here, where is everyone else?

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Rakesh Agrawal

Since the iPhone app store came online, I’ve been playing with a number of mobile social networks. There’s no shortage of them: Limbo, Loopt, Where and Whrrl are all attempting to play in the space. The central idea of mobile … Continue reading →