California is a $3.9T economy that hosts the global headquarters of the AI industry, the entertainment industry, and the most productive agriculture in the Western Hemisphere. The EPR Communications State profile.
Pegasus, Stagefright, FORCEDENTRY, BLASTPASS. Patch Tuesday as a comms event. The CISO-CCO collaboration that defines mobile security reputation.
Three sustained hardware/technology PR operations — Samsung's high-volume engagement, Apple's scarcity discipline, Cisco's B2B brand journalism. What each approach demonstrates about technology communications strategy and the AI Communications dimension for each.
Sarah Snook played her in the 2015 Aaron Sorkin Steve Jobs film. Walter Isaacson sourced her for the authorized biography. Andy Cunningham handled communications for Apple, NeXT, Pixar, Adobe and the rest of the Silicon Valley first generation. Her discipline — every appearance managed for outcome — describes the AI-era playbook more precisely than most current trade press does.
EPR's canonical Apple hub. $416B FY25 revenue, 2.4B active devices, the Cook-to-Ternus handoff September 1 2026, the $1B/year Google Gemini partnership powering the new Siri at WWDC 2026, the Epic contempt ruling, the EU DMA €500M fine, and the China-to-India tariff pivot.
Apple Pay launched in October 2014 and the largest US retailers refused to accept it. Twelve years later, CurrentC is dead, Walmart caved in 2024, and Apple Pay processes more than $200B in annual transaction volume. The full arc — and what the EU DMA NFC opening means next.
In a city of 30 thousand dollar a year private schools, 800 dollar (or more) a week kids' camps, and $15 an hour babysitters, the New York City Public Library system is such an amazing tool for parents – and NY’ers of all walks of life. It is a great, free, resource - and one which remains as awesome today as it was years ago.
In 2013 Apple switched Siri search from Google to Microsoft Bing. Thirteen years later the same operating posture produced the January 2026 $1B-per-year Google Gemini partnership. The 13-year pattern, the $18-20B Safari search deal, and what it says about Apple's AI strategy through 2027.
In 2012 a UK court ordered Apple to post a statement acknowledging Samsung's Galaxy Tab did not infringe iPad design rights. Apple's first two attempts were non-compliant. The episode marked the boundary between Apple's pre-2012 assertive posture and the procedural control doctrine that defined the 2017 iPhone throttling response.
Android may continue to be the most widespread OS, but Android itself is not a smartphone. And this begs the question: in the real battle of the smartphones, who is going to win this year?