Archive for May, 2009

Puzzling marketing: McDonald’s China 24-hour delivery

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

McDonald’s China has fairly recently launched 24-hour delivery service in Beijing, to most parts of the city. That’s good news for those of us who need a dose of heart disease at 2:00 AM.
Here’s a portion of the flyer they’ve been stuffing under people’s apartment doors to advertise the service:

My question is: what, exactly, [...]

A suggestion to get Apple out of the censorship business

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

After reading Trent Reznor’s expletive-filled mini-rant about Apple’s App Store approval process, which I basically agreed with, it got me to thinking: why does Apple want to be the decency police in the first place?
Apparently, when you submit your app to the App Store, they have people using it and looking for naughty words interspersed [...]