The release of the Zune Player has been, despite the concerted PR effort, as exciting as a new flavour of Heinz beans. Unlike the chaos and excitement of the launching of the Wee Wii and …

The delivery of the Zune player to the market came and went on Tuesday. There were no long lines of bleary eyed gamesters, no mad rush, crushing crowds or excited Japanese teenagers unlike the cult …

Continuing on the topic that intrigues me is how much vertical integration is needed in consumer products to make them a great consumer product. Just like the Palm Pilot before it, the IPod is the …

As you have seen from previous posts I have been pondering why Sony failed to match the success of the iPod with it’s Walkman line of products when all of the good money was on …

Steven Levy (Insanely Great) has a new book out called “The Perfect Thing”. A gushing rendition on the whys and wherefores of the most successful consumer device ever.
On October 23, 2001, Apple Computer, a company …

Mike Elgan, who is the author of last weeks Computer world article “Opinion: Why Microsoft’s Zune scares Apple to the core” has kindly responded to my posting last week. I have taken the time to …