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Where would your customers stick yours?

Thursday, 6 May, 2010
By: marc

Opposite me on the train sits a man woking on his Lenevo lap top. The Lenevo logo is small, on the top right handside of the lid. Taking pride of place, in the middle of his lap top lid is a large Apple icon. I’ve seen this before, people with Dells sticking the Apple sticker on the back or by the mousepad. Genius thinking by Apple, to include their logo sticker in product boxes, getting customers to promote their brand on competitors products. Enabling people to make a statement; I’d rather have an Apple, but work gave me this lousy windows machine.

If you gave your customers your brand logo, where would they stick it?

When google fails…

Friday, 26 September, 2008
By: marc

…I’ll see if I can get an answer on the blog. My two year old daughter has managed to put two DVDs into the Mac Mini and I can’t get them out. Tried all the usual suspects for ejecting – eject button, F12, Cmd-E, rebooting with mouse key pressed, disc utility, terminal and drutil tray eject plus turning it upside down and no joy. Does this mean a trip to the Apple Doctor?

Apple in the Big Apple

Wednesday, 23 May, 2007
By: marc

New York. Went to the Apple store last night with the intention of buying a MacBook. The Apple retail experience is pretty cool, lots of space, Macs and ipods to play with, sales people in the background – letting the Apple products sell themselves, being available to answer specific questions and take orders.

And then cold feet. I’ve been taken in by the hype. Do I really need a new MacBook? It would be for work and work already provide me with a reasonably decent Dell laptop. Can I really justify the $1200 outlay (even though it is cheaper than in the UK? And there’s a thing that bugs me about the retail experience in the UK. Lack of pricing transparency. The ticket says one thing, but then you’ve got to add the sales tax. In the UK, unless you are buying in the B2B space the price you see is the price you pay). And my final decision was no. I can’t really justify it. So instead I’m going to give Ubuntu another go and try and have the best of both worlds, a cool operating system on my old Dell machine.