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Apple To World: “Doomed? I Know What You Are, But What Am I?”
Last week, I talked about Apple: The Splendid Failure. How Apple was viewed as a failure because they prioritized product and customer experience over profits. This week, I try to put things into...
View ArticleDid You Hear The One About How Eric Schmidt Got Hired At Google?
Perhaps you’ve heard that Eric Schmidt called Android ‘more secure than the iPhone.’ Did you hear the one about how Eric Schmidt got hired at Google? Google had a tryout for the leading CEO candidates....
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The Tao Of Apple
“There are three rules for running a successful business. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. The Now Of Apple A man is known by the company he organizes. ~ Ambrose Bierce Steve Jobs’ Greatest...
View ArticleBeware Geeks Bearing Hybrids
Anyone that has been paying attention to the evolution of OS X and iOS will have at some point noticed that the two operating systems are slowly acting more like each other.1 Agreed. Mark Shuttleworth,...
View ArticleHuman Nature And Nature Of IT
“It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.”~Svetlana Alliluyeva It is in our nature to think that what works best for us is what works best for the company we work for. We...
View ArticleWhere’s The Hat And Other Miscellaneous Thoughts On Today’s Apple Event
Unmet Expectations A grandmother is watching her grandson play on the beach when a huge wave comes and takes him out to sea. She looks up and pleads, “Please God, save my only grandson. I beg of you,...
View ArticleApple’s Grand Strategy
Grand Strategy Grand Strategy is not about winning the war, its about winning the peace. It’s not about destroying your competitor, its about preserving who you are. It’s not about moving toward a...
View ArticleTablets: The Future Of Education
“(O)ur share of tablets in education is 94%. I mean, it’s sort of unheard of. I’ve never seen a market share that high before. ~ Tim Cook Which Computing Form Factor Is Most Likely To Dominate...
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Apple’s Definition Of “Winning”
We are winning with our products in all the ways that are most important to us, in customer satisfaction, in product usage and in customer loyalty. ~ Tim Cook, Apple earnings call Customer...
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Tech Intolerance (Part 1)
There’s something I don’t understand… there is this thing that people do – a lot of people – that I just do not understand and I will likely never understand…it’s been going on for years, almost a...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Bing Is Bad Strategy
There’s been a lot of talk, of late, of Microsoft possibly abandoning Bing. Lets’s set aside the reliability of those rumors, the political intrigue involved and the practicality of implementing such a...
View ArticleMocking Our Customers (Part 2)
Recap I hate people who are intolerant. ~ Dr. Laurence J. Peter I hate intolerant people. ~ Gloria Steinem Last week I wrote about intolerance — how we tend to believe that everyone is entitled to...
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Microsoft: Failing By Design
Microsoft Achieved Its Goal Microsoft had one of the greatest corporate mission statements of all time: “A computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software.” And guess what?...
View ArticleFurther Thoughts On The Future Of Education
On November 20th, fellow Techpinions writer, Steve Wildstrom, wrote an interesting column on Education and the Future of MOOCs. As Steve put it: (MOOCs are) massive, open, online courses that were...
View ArticleTech Thanksgiving
In the United States, today is the holiday known as Thanksgiving. So rather than write my normal column, I thought I’d devote today’s article to some of those things that I’m most thankful for — but...
View ArticleIt’s Bottoms Up For The Windows Phone
Recently, I’ve been reading a lot of upbeat reports regarding Microsoft’s share of the smart phone market. This has been accompanied by claims that Microsoft has finally gotten developers to adopt...
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The Mobile Wave
1) We all know that sales of smartphones and tablets are are growing fast, however… 2) Those sales are growing even faster than we may realize, and… 3) The implications of this new wave of computing...
View ArticleTablet Metaphysics
Are you ready for some Tech Metaphysics? “Aristotle drew a distinction between essential and accidental properties. The way he put it is that essential properties are those without which a thing...
View ArticleLessons Learned (And Unlearned) From The iPad’s Success
The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds ~ Mark Twain I tripped across a January 2010 article that absolutely skewered the introduction of the iPad, and it was just too, too,...
View ArticleOver-Serving And Under-Serving The Marketplace
Today, I thought I would explore the concepts of over-serving and under-serving the marketplace. The terms “over-serviing” and “under-serving” are used a lot nowadays, but I can’t believe that they’re...
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