Response to Tyler’s Blog: Overspending in America

So who is at fault? The Marketers and the companies for using researched and highly formed techniques to make people buy, or the consumer for giving in to such advertising?

I believe both parties are at fault.  The businesses because they advertise to make people doubt and dis-believe themselves so that they go out to make themselves feel better and try to be better.  It is also the consumers fault, because if you are working a daily job and providing for your family you are doing just fine.  You don’t have to buy thousand dollar jewelry just because you have two jobs and the person which is wearing the jewelry is a stay at home rich woman.

Who do you believe is at fault?

Samsung tops Apple in global mobile phone shipments

“Samsung is on a tear and dominating worldwide mobile phone shipments, according to two market research firms, Nokia is losing steam in a hurry.”

Samsung has started to reach out into the global world with their smart phone shipments.  They have overtaken Apple in the process.  The Samsung share went from 12.2 percent in the first quarter of 2011 to a whopping 30.6 percent in the first quarter of this year.  On the other hand Apple jumped from 18.1 to 24.1 percent.

Do you think this growth for Samsung will increase in the future?

With the lowering percent of Nokia’s shares, what do you believe they will do to get back to competing with Apple and Samsung?


http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57422679-92/samsung-tops-apple-in-global-mobile-phone-shipments/

In response to Evan’s Post: Verizon Sucks

The phone technology is a very strange business.  Like Verizon, the phone companies are more interested in sticking people in these phone data plans, which have many restrictions and several monthly charges.  Each of these plans have specific restrictions which people do not fully understand when they are buying the phone.  The plans are great until you start to have problems with the phone, then the technicians only help you for a price and it is almost impossible to get a new phone.

Do you think this is the right way to do business if you were the phone companies?

Since people keep coming back and continue buying the same data plans, do you think there ever will be a change?  Will the phone companies make these plans user friendly or complicate them more?

New iPad 3 going small

The New iPad Apple announced is going to be much smaller.  They felt they had to change their current design because of the several new tablets which are going to hit the tech world.  The new iPad 3 is going to have a better display along with 4G capability.  The other tablets are The Kindle Fire, The Nook Tablet, The Acer Iconia A500, The Asus Slider, The HTC Flyer, The HTC Jetstream, The Galaxy Note, The Pantech Element, The BlackBerry PlayBook, The Sony S, The Sony P, The G-Slate, The T-Mobile Springboard, The Motorola Xyboard, The Toshiba Thrive, The Asus Transformer Pad Infinity, and The Asus Padfone.  With all of these new tablets and technology coming out, there obviously was a need for Apple to improve on their design.  I don’t know which of these new tablets will be popular but most of them will most likely only last for a few years because the technology world is constantly improving.  This is a marketer’s nightmare.  There are so many new tablets coming out, that each company must try to improve on their design and offer a few function or something the others don’t.  With the large surplus of tablets coming out in the next year, that seems like a difficult task.

Link: showing the competition

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/apples-ipad-3-faces-stiffer-competition-than-ipad-2/2012/02/29/gIQAGhzKkR_story.html

Link: showing more info on the iPad 3

http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/27/ipad-3-rumor-roundup/

What do you think about the new smaller iPad 3?

Facebook buys Instagram for a Billion Dollars

Facebook on April 14^th at 7:07 AM bought the mobile photo sharing network Instagram.  They paid over 1 billion dollars for this acquisition.  They bought Instagram because Instagram’s members ever day snap and share millions of photos every day.  Facebook along with the new money they will get from this new technology will also get more members.  This company will help Facebook a lot.

What do you think about the acquisition of Instagram?

Is Instagram worth a billion dollars?

Link to cite:

http://www.itworld.com/266630/why-facebook-bought-instagram-billion-dollars

Response to Tyler’s Blog: Response to blackberry on the way out

What do you think of blackberry’s downfall?  I knew that the blackberry was not going to last long when everyone started to get iPhones and Droids.  These phones along with internet access also have the cloud.  This program allows you to sink your phone with your iPod and your computer.  The blackberry only has the internet.  At its peak blackberry was hot due to the fact that it had internet access and a keyboard.  As time went on they had to charge more and more for their internet access and the new phones came with more apps and less monthly charges.

Do you think Droids will be the new technology to fall off? 

Google Smartphone Glasses

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/04/04/google-begins-testing-terminator-style-smartphone-glasses/

Google has started testing a new technology.  They are trying to incorporate the internet and GPS into your glasses.  The device would have a direct link to your smartphone, while providing real-time information in a heads-up display.  This is Google’s first venture into wearable computing.  This technology is still in the first stages but the Google staff are asking people for their thoughts.  If you have Google+ you can see their first prototype and their first ideas for the future.  This technology will catapult Google into a new never been touched field, and in doing so they are taking their followers for the ride.  Theses glasses or goggles will also feature a built-in camera.

What do you think about this new technology?

Is this the right step for Google?

If Google creates a workable computer which you can wear as glasses, what is next? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4 (Youtube clip showing the new Technology)