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We live in the age of Big Brother! No silly, not the TV show. I am talking about the Orwellian talk coming to life. When I was just a young lad there was a commercial ad run by Apple Computers (yes, they USED to make PC’s LOL). They bought a spot on the Superbowl in 1984 Apple Macintosh PC.

It was THE most talked about commerce that year and launched the phenomenon that is Apple today. This commerce was actually a spoof of the George Orwell novel called 1984. 

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Big Brother is a fictional character in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the enigmatic dictator of Oceania, a totalitarian state taken to its utmost logical consequence – where the ruling elite (‘the Party’) wield total power for its own sake over the inhabitants.

In the society that Orwell describes, everyone is under complete surveillance by the authorities, mainly by telescreens. The people are constantly reminded of this by the phrase "Big Brother is watching you", which is the core "truth" of the propaganda system in this state. Big Brother’s physical characteristics are intended to resemble Joseph Stalin although in the film his moustache more closely resembles Adolf Hitler’s.

This is somewhat for the geek in me, but also just to reiterate what Brent Leary and I spoke about last year on his interview call. The iPhone and cellular technologies are not kids toys anymore. These are the pocket PC of the NOW. It is not something down the road, it is today!

• 13.7 Million Units Sold
• 25,000 Applications
• 800 Million Downloads
• Application eCommerce (hmmm…what’s could be next?)

The iPhone 3.0 is pushing the market forward and making business, transaction and payment easy. Should you be planning for the coming wave of users that ONLY have phones? Why will this new generation lug around big laptops any more? How will you keep up and stay relevant?

These are the questions I am asking my team, are you asking yours?

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Was it just me? Or did you also get a charge out of the iPhone commercial on The Office this week? That took me by surprise, cause that is my favorite TV show and to see an iPhone commercial, you got to watch. To my surprise they were showing off eBay on the iPhone. I actually dug it…here it is for replay