Apple, Peak and Cockroaches
You probably think I am out of my mind – well … hm… no comment. But yes I agree it’s close to madness to discuss Apple’s decline right on the heels of a record-breaking iPhone 5 launch and a stock price that despite some correction is still a rocketship. But bear with me for a [...]
Microsoft: A new era of vertical integration?
As he introduced the Microsoft Surface tablet yesterday, Steve Ballmer kicked off by pointing out Microsoft has long been a hardware player. He is right of course. Lots of accessories – mice, webcams. Lots of devices which did not overlap much with its licensees – Zune, XBox, Kinect, Surface table. With Surface Tablet we may [...]
iSalute : Remembering Steve Jobs
I was about to board my flight at Chicago’s O’Hare when the news of Steve Jobs passing away broke. When I landed in San Fran (My United flight did not have Wi-Fi)- my thoughts were with the family, Apple colleagues and the huge number of Steve Jobs and Apple supporters. Innumerable iPads, Macs, iPods inside [...]
Minimum Viable or Insanely Great? We’ll Miss You, Steve Jobs
We live in a world that has learned to embrace and even worship the notion of a “minimum viable product,” not products that are the best that we can do. This is done for risk mitigation reasons. We are concerned that we may not know what’s best, we need to get feedback, and we need [...]
Steve Jobs: A thousand nos and ten gutsy yeses
I recently submitted the first draft of my manuscript for my next book. It’s about what I call “technology elite” companies and it has 21 chapters most of which talk about attributes of what makes them elite. They include elegance in product design, malleable when it comes to business models, very aware of the power [...]
Living with iPad
Just before Christmas I joined in with the iPad crowd. The last straw was an XBRL event at ICAEW back in November when 5 of my colleagues who were speaking or supporting Twinfield at the show all had iPads and I didn’t. I started to look seriously at the tablet concept to see how it [...]
Scoble Discovers Developers are Schizo About New Platforms
I just listened to Scoble’s bar interview of @longview (Nick Long) and @renatto (Paul Robinett), two Dreamworks developers who are building a mobile app of their own. They’re talking about the Mobile World, and there are some great sound bites coming from the interview. BTW, the Cinchcast tool he used to do the interview was pretty [...]
Part Two – Workday Technology Summit
More on the Workday Technology Summit including information re: an iPad analytics application, Workday Labs interest areas and the role of social media in Workday applications.
Top 10 Reasons Why Steve Jobs and Apple Reject Adobe Flash
Wondering why Steve Jobs and Apple are blocking Adobe Flash from your iPhone, iPod, and iPad (despite the fact that you own the device and should be allowed to make up your own mind)? Here’s a “Top Ten” list examining possible answers.
