Anand Shimpi joins This Week in Tech in the wake of Apple’s iPhone 4 antenna issues and offers an expert opinion due to his unique coverage over at Anandtech. They tread the issue extensively but not too far beyond the plethora of coverage up to this point, ultimately reaching the conclusion that most people who buy the iPhone could really care less about reception issues.
The recent financial success of both Intel and AMD has inspired some optimism about PC computing, though John takes a little issue with that. While mobile products are taking most of the mindshare of the tech crowd, Anand insists that the increasing power and optimization of desktop processors will continue until it simply can’t be done anymore. Steve adds that desktops are ideal for content creation, while mobile devices are alternatively ideal for content consumption.
Isaiah “Old Spice guy” Mustafa has been massively successful this past week, cranking out over 100 videos targeted to individual people on various social networks to virally advertise Old Spice body products. It’s been a rallying cry for much of the tech audience, including TWiT, due to the simple fact that it shows the power of social networking synthesized with well made advertising content.
iPhone woes, Intel profits, AMD sales, Facebook 500 million, Old Spice, and more.
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