John Martellaro’s Blog: Particle Debris (week ending 12/4) Corporate Confusion and The Big iPhone Lie
December 4th, 2009 admin
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In this week’s assortment of technical news debris, John looks at confusion on Wall Street about AAPL, Nokia’s strategic confusion about its smartphones, analyst confusion about the iPhone in 2007, corporate confusion about the language they use, Rupert Murdoch’s confusion about his publishing empire’s business model, and Verizon’s attempt to confuse customers with a Big Lie about the gender of the iPhone (with video). Also included, a happy summary of holiday apps for the Mac and iPhone — and TWoW returns.
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