Marketing & Business in the 21st Centure
08/02/08 07:09 AM
The news this week
that Chrysler is terminating leasing means that a lot
of people in this country are either going to have to
purchase less expensive cars or that more of their
disposable income is going to cover the increased
cost of car payments. Auto makers are now blaming
American consumers for their poor strategic planning
and expect consumers to “share the pain”. Notice to
Detroit: YOU REALLY SUCK Read
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07/11/08 06:25 PM
Apple’s
meltdown is a classic example of problems that can
result from complex systems that have single points
of failure. In today’s case, the company appeared to
invite disaster by not separating its existing
customers from new ones. On Friday morning, Apple
executives acknowledged the problem and said the
combination of original iPhone users upgrading and
new iPhone 3G users trying to complete their
activation swamped the company’s servers. Does Apple
care? Why should they? After all they are Apple
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07/01/08 03:00 PM
Starbucks
announced that they are closing 600 stores here in
the US. The brand with so much equity is closing
stores and taking a huge writeoff. What happened to
one of the best brands in the world and could it
happen to other top brands? Read
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