Category: Business
Apple is not about tech so stop judging it as if it was
“So, seriously Alex, do you think Apple has a problem?” Financial analysts call me up some times for “insights”. It is usually when their job is on the line and/or…
Advanced marketing:A tobacco company sponsoring a smoke free future
It appeared in my Facebook timeline and took me by surprise. A Greek island is aiming to be smoke free. Nice initiative. Nice touchy feely video and all. Oh, wait…
Apple is gay. But not as gay as the world needs it to be.
When Tim Cook came out to the media as gay I was not surprised. We all knew that Apple products were disproportionately favored by gays. The statistics occasionally cropped up…
Television is dead. And nobody goes to trade shows. So why is everyone at IBC again?
It was almost two decades ago. After a dozen times at the International Broadcasting Convention I felt ready to summarize the trends and predict the future. “TV and the internet…
Don’t buy a house on the beach in Greece after the 20th of August
If you think Greece has made progress in the past three years, you really should tell me how you get informed. I need that sort of optimism and selective perception. …
Here is your first class action suite for GDPR (and why it is stupid)
As an experiment, I decided to ask Google to remove all my contributions to the Google Maps Local Guides scheme. For those of you not aware, Google Maps uses volunteers…
This is a coup! How does Europe get the right to tell the internet what to do?
As the world watches him flip flop over major topics like migrant families and trade war threats, I have to grant Donald Trump a point. Take all the nasty stuff…
GDPR is so stupid it is scary
I can picture the scene. Some EU bureaucrat, on his low tech EU email client, had to go through the EU complicated way of reporting yet another viagra spam email. …
Facebook killed 14 people in May
That is what the headlines ought to be. Not “A Facebook bug changed suggested sharing settings to ‘public’ for up to 14 million users“. Think about it. Assuming Facebook is telling…
The Cryptocurrency backstory is all wrong
If you ask Google how many UK pounds you get for 100 US dollars you will get the result immediately. Ask it to convert 10 0xBitcoin to FlorinCoin and you get…