Linked List: February 1, 2013

Friday, 1 February 2013

CBS Bans SodaStream Ad From Super Bowl ★

Will Burns, writing for Forbes:

CBS banned SodaStream’s Super Bowl spot because, apparently, it was too much of a direct hit to two of its biggest sponsors, Coke and Pepsi.

Please pause and read that sentence again.

Eric Schmidt on China as a Competitor ★

Tom Gara, with excerpts from Eric Schmidt’s new book:

“The disparity between American and Chinese firms and their tactics will put both the government and the companies of the United States as a distinct disadvantage,” because “the United States will not take the same path of digital corporate espionage, as its laws are much stricter (and better enforced) and because illicit competition violates the American sense of fair play,” they claim.

“This is a difference in values as much as a legal one.”

I’m curious where he sees South Korea on this scale.

‘iPhone Plus’ Speculation ★

This is exactly how I think Apple would do a bigger-screen iPhone.