Apple is at its best when it takes giant leaps forward and risks its reputation on a new product or idea that could change the industry. Arguably its biggest successes in the last decade have been of this variety - from the original iPod and iPhone to the iTunes Music Store , the iPad and the MacBook Air , each of which is iconic, and unquestionably a success. The iPad 2 delivered what we expected - faster processors, dual cameras, and a thinner body, great upgrades, but not really much of a stretch. Apple's sales numbers prove that to be true. The floppy disk? MORE >>

Home About Contact Archives Testimonials Speaking Podcast Chat LIVE Social Media Vault My Inner Circle Plugins eBook Hire Me The Apple iPad. February 3, 2010 by Taylor Marek It is a week after all the hubbub around the Apple press conference. Now its time for me to interject my thoughts… Here they are: The iPad is nothing more than a glorified IPhone, only bigger. Secondly, Paul Colligan , the tech guru that he is, ran the numbers on the iPad which proved to be quite interesting. Third, a college friend of mine has 27 reasons against the iPad. MORE >>

I didn’t get an original iPad. did, of course, buy the iPad 2. The more I play around with it, the more I realize that every ounce of online marketing should be positioned around it and other tablets. If It Works on the iPad… Up and down compatibility is always a challenge. Do you gear for the mass populace (which is still doing most of their surfing from desktops and laptops) or do you position your marketing efforts around the middle and make it easier to move up or down? If your marketing campaigns rely on visuals, avoid slow loads. MORE >>

Considering the dramatic success of Apple's App Store for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, it seems remarkable that at the 2007 introduction of iPhone , the device was not set up for third party native applications, with Steve Jobs and crew suggesting standards-based Web apps were the way for developers to design for the device. Meanwhile, the Web Apps directory on the Apple Web site has atrophied, not having updated in nearly five months - while competitors such as Google push for Web app development inside Chrome. iPhone iPad Web applications iPod Apple MORE >>

Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock, you are aware that Apple has flooded the market with impressive state-of-the-art and stylish consumer electronics:  iPhone cell phones, iPod MP3 players, iPod Touch hand-held computers, and now the iPad tablet computer. Apple sold 3 million iPads in the first 80 days after launch. On the front-end of the product cycle (from a marketing point-of-view) Apple is stellar at driving demand. At the end of the product cycle, Apple produces products that customers love.  was excited to setup my new iPad. MORE >>