Very cool post up at Apple 2.0 right now about the connection between press attention and Apple’s marketing efforts. Essentially, as Leander has argued before, the company lays off the advertising a little bit when interest is high. Phil at Apple 2.0 decided to see if Apple then pumps it back up again when things tail off. None-too-surprisingly, press hits about the iPhone are way down from two months ago. Last week, after the company rolled out “All These Years” and “All the Parts,” the volume of iPhone stories went up again.
Check it out, it’s great.
Pete Mortensen is a design strategist for consulting firm Jump Associates and the co-author of Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, a book and blog that are significantly more interesting than you might initially think. Pete’s particular Apple avocations are both around design–interface and industrial. Follow him on Twitter!
