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Thompsons Autorestorers Guernsey – New Website Online Now
Purple Coffee Guernsey web design is happy to announce that the new Thompsons Autorestorers website is now live! John Thompson Autorestorers Ltd has been established for nearly 40 years and is a local family run business. They are the leading independent car & van accident repair centre in Guernsey, Channel Islands. John Thompson Autorestorers are the first accredited Kitemark PAS 125 autorestorers in Guernsey and the Channel Islands.…Read More
A History of Apple & Innovation: The social price of technological innovation; what would Orwell think?
When looking to the future it is often wise to consider society’s past concerns to provide a framework for contextual analysis. Considering tablet style computing in general conjures up thoughts of George Orwell’s dystopian science fiction masterpiece, 1984. In the novel Orwell depicts the struggle of society as it finds itself in a state of increasing social and economic cohesion with that of machines.…Read More
A History of Apple & Innovation: Google vs Apple; are Apple still “closed” for Business?
One of Apple’s historical problems in obtaining market dominance was that they essentially closed themselves off from the contribution that other companies could make to the software and application driven environments they developed. They in effect historically enabled DOS and Microsoft to always have available a wider selection of competing programs, all of which made…Read More
A History of Apple & Innovation: Defining innovation; is it a matter of perspective?
Many of Apple’s “innovations”, namely the iPad and Apple’s other touch screen devices, have successfully integrated within the consumer market after having gone through a lengthy product evolution that draws influences from science fiction, previous products and existing technologies. So are Apple’s latest generation of touch screen devices truly innovative or are they a timely and intuitive combination of existing ideas, concepts and technology?…Read More
A History of Apple & Innovation: Apple’s “Innovative” use of Existing Technologies & Design Concepts
A great deal of Apple’s contribution to the market place involves the precise aesthetic presentation of their products, ensuring they develop products with appealing physical qualities that even technophobes can admire and appreciate on a purely emotional level; this cannot be defined as innovation in a strict sense, however Apple’s success in the areas of product design and creativity are often misinterpreted as innovation by their audiences.…Read More