Post Tagged with: "retail"

Best Buy: With Lots of Unbiased Advice
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Best Buy: With Lots of Unbiased Advice

Best Buy has been running a commercial for the past few weeks where they are positioning themselves as THE place to buy a mobile phone. The commercial was very well done. The commercial included many who invented recognizable aspects of the mobile phone experience. People like Philippe Kahn who created the camera phone. Or Ray [...]

Published by on February 13, 2012 7:59 am
Why Amazon Will Create Brick and Mortar Retail Stores
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Why Amazon Will Create Brick and Mortar Retail Stores

Over the years, in my various discussions with Steve Jobs about Apple and their products, there was one theme that always came out when we discussed any of his product designs; they had to be easy to use. In fact, he was the consummate customer of Apple products. If he deemed them not “easy-to-use” then [...]

Published by on February 13, 2012 6:43 am
Tablet Price Promotions to Boost Demand
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Tablet Price Promotions to Boost Demand

Staples is the latest retailer in the tablet market to offer a price promotion on tablets. The company is offering a coupon for $100 off tablet purchases (excluding the HP TouchPad) through July 30. The coupon is the latest price move by a tablet player to spur demand. Tablet brands have recently been lowering prices [...]

Published by on July 27, 2011 1:43 am
Why Apple’s Loss of Retail Chief to JC Penney is Apple’s Gain
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Why Apple’s Loss of Retail Chief to JC Penney is Apple’s Gain

I have written in various columns over the last few months, that once Apple moved the center of our digital life from the Mac and to the cloud, they could be freed up to offer many more devices that are Apple branded and gain greater features from their cloud offering. This idea became crystal clear [...]

Published by on June 20, 2011 3:47 pm
Apple Retail is Key to Their Competitive Advantage
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Apple Retail is Key to Their Competitive Advantage

Apple has several things I consider to be keys to their competitive advantage. Fundamental advantages that when you study become clear differentiators as well as roadblocks for Apple competitors. However if I were to prioritize, their retail strategy would be near the top as a key to their competitive advantage – here is why.

Published by on June 5, 2011 11:38 pm
Why Apple Has a Strong Competitive Advantage
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Why Apple Has a Strong Competitive Advantage

One of the primary things about being an effective technology industry analyst is that I have to clearly communicate our perspectives about the technology industry as a whole to my firms clients. This requires more than just the regurgitation of information as we gather it in the field. It requires explaining more fundamental elements of [...]

Published by on June 2, 2011 7:37 pm