8:08 PM
For the first time in the 14-year history of the "Best Global Brands" report, Coca-Cola is not the world's most valuable brand. Apple is #1, Google is #2, and Coke fell to #3:
http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/apple-ousts-coca-cola-top-brand-historic-shift-152793
Apple and AT&T settled the lawsuit that claimed that they tricked customers into buying an Apple iPad in 2010, with AT&T switching the data plans from unlimited to usage-based pricing. Anyone in the US who bought an iPad 3G before 6/7/2010 will get $40, where customers who didn't sign up for AT&T service will get a $20/month discount on AT&T's 5GB monthly plan for up to a year:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/apple-att-settle-unlimited-ipad-data-lawsuit/2013-09-29
I knew about Verizon's website's glitch over the weekend that was allowing people to keep their unlimited data plans when getting a subsidized smartphone...but I had just gotten a new phone! It turns out that Verizon will honor the upgrades that people rushed to make while their website was accidentally allowing them to keep their unlimited plans:
http://www.androidcentral.com/verizon-will-honor-upgrades-unlimited-data-resulting-system-glitch
Verizon is dominating the smartphone market--37.1% of the smartphones sold in the US over the past quarter were for Verizon's network, up from 30.2% the previous quarter. AT&T was way behind at 21.7%, with Sprint at 14.6% and T-Mobile at 13.2%. Apple got 39.3% of the US smartphone market, up from 33.9%, while Android dropped to 55.1% from 60.7% the previous year:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/kantar-apple-fueled-40-us-smartphone-sales-ahead-iphone-5s-5c-launch/2013-09-30
http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/apple-ousts-coca-cola-top-brand-historic-shift-152793
Apple and AT&T settled the lawsuit that claimed that they tricked customers into buying an Apple iPad in 2010, with AT&T switching the data plans from unlimited to usage-based pricing. Anyone in the US who bought an iPad 3G before 6/7/2010 will get $40, where customers who didn't sign up for AT&T service will get a $20/month discount on AT&T's 5GB monthly plan for up to a year:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/apple-att-settle-unlimited-ipad-data-lawsuit/2013-09-29
I knew about Verizon's website's glitch over the weekend that was allowing people to keep their unlimited data plans when getting a subsidized smartphone...but I had just gotten a new phone! It turns out that Verizon will honor the upgrades that people rushed to make while their website was accidentally allowing them to keep their unlimited plans:
http://www.androidcentral.com/verizon-will-honor-upgrades-unlimited-data-resulting-system-glitch
Verizon is dominating the smartphone market--37.1% of the smartphones sold in the US over the past quarter were for Verizon's network, up from 30.2% the previous quarter. AT&T was way behind at 21.7%, with Sprint at 14.6% and T-Mobile at 13.2%. Apple got 39.3% of the US smartphone market, up from 33.9%, while Android dropped to 55.1% from 60.7% the previous year:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/kantar-apple-fueled-40-us-smartphone-sales-ahead-iphone-5s-5c-launch/2013-09-30