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One of the more important ideas Apple put forward at its event was also one of the most familiar. The iPhone is becoming your personal intelligence hub. Think about what

Creative Strategies September 9, 2026

iPhone Duo: What Apple Bought by Waiting

iPhone Duo is what vertical integration looks like when it works. Samsung and Honor have shipped good folding hardware for years. Apple is the first to ship the operating system that earns it.

Creative Strategies August 11, 2026

Google's new event strategy is great

This may sound weird to those who aren't in the media/influencer/analyst/tech event scene, which is likely the vast majority of people reading this, but I

Creative Strategies July 30, 2026

Copilot Seats Are the Bridge for Agents

Microsoft disclosed more than 30 million paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats this week, and the number works best read as an installation count. Every paid seat puts Work IQ inside a customer’s tenant, the context layer over roles, projects, artifacts and institutional knowledge that Microsoft’s agents

Creative Strategies July 22, 2026

The Z Fold8 Widens Samsung’s Foldable Range

Samsung expands its portfolio by adding a new form factor to the Galaxy Z family. The original Z Fold becomes the Z Fold8 Ultra, the Flip remains as the Z Flip8, and the new Z Fold8 slots in between. The lineup now offers three distinct experiences, positioned around productivity, content discovery,

Creative Strategies July 9, 2026

GPT-5.6, the Diligence Stack Agent Bench, and Why Practical Agent Benchmarks Need to Get Real

Most AI benchmarks still do a mediocre job of explaining how useful models are in the kinds of agentic workflows businesses actually care about. That is not because benchmarks are useless. They are useful. But many of them are still optimized around narrow tasks, coding-heavy environments, academic-

Creative Strategies June 24, 2026

Intel’s New G3 Extreme Shows Why PC Handhelds Will Keep Growing

I have a habit when I review gaming hardware: I use the review as an excuse to finally play something I have been putting off. The RTX 5090 was my excuse to play Alan Wake 2, and I loved that game. The MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ became my excuse to restart Marvel’s Spider-Man 2,…

Creative Strategies June 19, 2026

The Web Was Not Built for Agents. AWS Is Starting to Fix That

The web’s transaction model was designed for humans. You visit a page, see an ad, click a link, or buy something. Every monetization mechanism built over the past three decades, advertising, subscriptions, paywalls, affiliate revenue, assumes a person made a choice. That assumption is breaking. At A

Creative Strategies June 9, 2026

WWDC 2026: Apple Kept It Real

No Overpromising, Meeting Users Where They Are At WWDC, the expectation is for a long list of new features rolling across every OS Apple supports in its portfolio. This year, Apple reframed that. Rather than leading with what is new, the keynote centered on perfecting and homogenizing the experience

Creative Strategies June 7, 2026

A Transformed Cisco Steps Into a Familiar Role

At Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas last week, Jeetu Patel took the stage as President and Chief Product Officer in front of 20,000 attendees from 75 countries and delivered on a prediction he made two years ago: that Cisco would be unrecognizable as a company. The portfolio on display made the case wit

Creative Strategies June 6, 2026

Boring is Best: The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x is My Default Snapdragon Laptop

I’m now on day three of product reviewing, and today I’m looking at the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x with the Snapdragon X2 Elite. This is a laptop that gets almost everything right. Good products tend to be boring, and that’s exactly what makes this machine so impressive. I was watching the movie The Hitman

Creative Strategies June 5, 2026

The Asus Zenbook A16 is the first premium Snapdragon laptop, if you buy the right one

Normally I don’t talk about specs in a review. The spec sheet is not the product. The overall experience is the product, and the overall experience on this laptop is good. Not my favorite in the world, but good. I’m breaking my rule this time because the person considering this laptop is the most sp