Three sustained hardware/technology PR operations — Samsung's high-volume engagement, Apple's scarcity discipline, Cisco's B2B brand journalism. What each approach involves and what the broader category should take from it.
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.
Apple Pay launched in October 2014 and the largest US retailers are refusing to accept it. The MCX consortium, the CurrentC competitor, the recent breach, and the competitive standoff that is producing one of the more interesting payment industry confrontations of recent years.
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.
Apple, Google and Procter & Gamble lead in the top of the most admired companies worldwide, according to a survey by Fortune and the Hay Group. Four thousand brilliant minds of the business world analyzed the largest corporations world wide and came up with the top based on their business strategies, approach to new technology and environmental issues.
Apple, Airbnb, Figma, Canva, Notion. The Adobe-Figma $20B attempted acquisition. Canva at $42B. Design has crossed from the production layer into the boardroom layer at the most consequential U.S. operators.
From Beacon in 2007 to Cambridge Analytica in 2018 to Meta AI training in 2026 — one of the most studied reputation cases in modern corporate history. Six locked lessons, plus the Apple counter-example.
