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Tanzania Marketing

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Take a minute and guess what the most visible piece of advertising is in Tanzania.  What product do you suppose it is for?  What company logos are most prominent?
Coca-Cola?
Some local beer?  (Kilimanjaro beer.  They got the marketing to tourists thing down)
Nope.  The ads you see plastered on every store in Tanzania are for cell phone [...]

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My first iPhone application, A Deck of Cards, is now available for sale at the iPhone application store.  I am selling it for free so go get it now…………Link
…… OK you got it?  I can wait if you don’t…….
The point of this app is to demonstrate some of the iPhone’s capabilities.  I am planning [...]

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At mobile forums like this one, there is a lot of talk about the iPhone market size.  The traditional wisdom is: if you want to make money selling mobile apps you have to develop for multiple platforms.
This is because of the fragmented mobile device market of which currently includes 10M iPhones or so.
Looking at only [...]

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In a previous life, I designed software systems for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). Among the things I learned was that at mach 2 your UI better be pretty darn responsive. Fighter pilots do not have time to wait for things to load or animate or whatever. In some ways this is true for mobile [...]

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