Author: GMills

Greg’s Bite: The Self-Cannibalism Effect at Apple

By Greg Mills

Apple has a uncanny ability to understate the forecast for the following quarter’s revenue each time they do the quarterly financial report to the analysts who are hanging on every word. Then 90 days later, they wow the very same crowd with unexpected numbers that blow the lid off the highest estimates. It is a game with gigantic money at stake.

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Greg’s Bite: Siri coming to Mac and iPad

By Greg Mills

Guessing what Apple will do, is of course, an inexact science, as they enjoy making monkeys out of tech writers. It has been said that most of the time the weather today is a pretty good indicator for what the weather will be like tomorrow. That cliche is obviously wrong a lot, but odds are that similar weather comes on consecutive days more often than not.

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Greg’s Bite: RIM, BlackOutBerries

By Greg Mills

RIM: RIM may take the “gang that can’t shoot straight” title away from Microsoft and its CEO, Steve Ballmer. We are in day four of a rolling denial of service sort of thing where BlackBerrys won’t send or receive email and surfing the web is faster with a dial-up connection.

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Behr app aids in choosing the right colors

By Greg Mills

My “day job” is doing high end interior painting and Faux Wall Art in Kansas City, Ks. I use Behr Paint and materials exclusively for my painting and wall art.

I go back with Behr many years and, in fact, my first two US patents were licensed to and issued in Behr Process’s name. I was a paid drywall texture consultant, and two of my texture spray devices were of interest to them. While the commercialization of my technology at Behr didn’t happen, I was treated fairly and got my patents back when we parted ways.

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