Posts Tagged ‘Steve Jobs’
Time For Entirely New Myths At Apple
Steve Jobs is dead. There’s no bigger, richer company on the planet than Apple. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has repeatedly stated this most American of companies will soon garner more of its sales from China...
Thoughts On Apple
Let’s start with the bad news: The Apple Watch. This beautiful, technological marvel is, in my view, the device our future selves point back to as delineating when Apple changed forever. Not necessarily for the … Continue reading
Apple Watch Claim Chowder
People really love to hate Apple. It should be considered a disorder at this point. ~ J. Gobert (@MrGobert) The Apple Watch may or may not fail, but the analysis of the Watch has already … Continue reading
I Shall Now Make My Apple Event Predictions!
I always like to make my predictions AFTER the fact. Improves accuracy. Yet I’m still bound to get a few things wrong. You can only predict things after they have happened. ~ Eugene Ionesco Truth … Continue reading
Apple Claim Chowder: Events
With an Apple Event fast approaching, I’m reviewing critiques of past Apple events to see how accurate they were. Turns out, not very. Critique is needed and welcome. Repeated errors? Not so much. Events A … Continue reading
Apple Claim Chowder: Introduction
Apple has scheduled an Event for Tuesday, September 9, 2014. Apple’s Events attract critics the way a trailer park attracts tornados. Good analysis and insightful critiques are expected and welcome, however many critics merely repeat … Continue reading
A Bird’s Eye View: The Humbled Steve Jobs
This new series A Bird’s Eye View will feature short stories by Tim Bajarin, a 33 year industry veteran of the technology industry. These stories and anecdotes are ones Tim has collected through his 30-plus...
Tim Cook Has The Know-How But Steve Jobs Had The Know-Why
On June 13, 2014, John Gruber posted his epic, “Only Apple.” In part of his article, Gruber focused specifically on the changes occurring at Apple under new CEO, Tim Cook. Jobs was a great CEO … Continue reading
Losing My Apple Religion. Seeking Salvation At WWDC.
I have crazy-high expectations for Apple’s worldwide developer conference. I expect, at minimum: An iPhone phablet iPad split-screen multi-tasking, necessary for the enterprise, awesome for gaming Touch ID APIs to support mobile payments Seamless inter-app … Continue reading
The Subscription Economy Is Sending Me To The Poorhouse
[UPDATE: See below] Technology is supposed to make our lives better. Shouldn’t we demand the same from business models? Sadly, it seems as if today’s bleeding edge innovations in business and retail are in — … Continue reading
Why Apple Is Not Like A Movie Studio
On April 22, 2014, Walt Mossberg wrote an article entitled: “Why Apple Is Like A Movie Studio.” Is This The Beginning Of The End? “Some have argued that Apple’s era of greatness is over, that … Continue reading
Peering Inside The Apple Rumors Prism
Steve Jobs fully understood the value in surprise, the wonder of magic, and the awe a beautiful, functional, highly personal computing device can evoke when unwrapped for the very first time. Rumors, particularly a stream...
The Genius Of Steve Jobs Or Why Google And Facebook Must Make Big Bets
The ghost of Steve Jobs haunts Google and Facebook. Unlike Apple, which has always aligned its interests with its users, both Google and Facebook must serve two masters: users and customers. They are not the...
The Computer Chronicles
Why are you here? Why are you even reading this? Me? I know why and am grateful for the odd, stirring, mostly unplanned path that brought me here. My father spent over 30 years working … Continue reading
Apple Is The Richest And Most Under-Staffed Company In Tech
Posit: Apple Is The Richest And Most Under-Staffed Company In Tech ~ Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) Anyone who follow Apple closely knows that they are a bundle of paradoxes. One of the most baffling of these...
Trying To Understand How The iPhone 5c Failed
Failure is fascinating. Failure highlights our limits, our strengths, our mortality. My ‘explorations in failure’ will this week examine the iPhone 5c. At the very moment Apple was about to slice deep into the Android...
Silicon Valley Owes A Debt Of Gratitude To The Movie Real Genius. We All Do.
I owe much to the movie Real Genius. I think Silicon Valley also owes this great film its gratitude. Indeed, if you love Silicon Valley, its culture, its vision, its bold, disruptive ethos and hacker creed, … Continue reading
Why Does Tim Cook Even Bother?
Now that the world no longer has Steve Ballmer to kick around, I think it’s time we direct our focus toward Apple’s Tim Cook. After all, just like Ballmer, Cook had to follow a legendary, … Continue reading
The Next Steve Jobs Will Destroy Apple
Apple is the biggest tech company in the world, worth at least $100 billion more than either Microsoft or Google. Apple has over 350 million active users. Within a few short years, I suspect a … Continue reading
Truth And Lies Of Silicon Valley
It’s a privilege to write here, and a joy to focus on the long-term trends in technology, the rise and fall of companies and leaders, and the impact this region has upon not only America, … Continue reading
If Steve Jobs Was Alive What Would Steve Jobs Do?
If Steve Jobs was alive I would not need to write this column. He is not, tragically, and yet as I cover Apple, the smartphone industry, and the rapid spread of mobile personal computing throughout … Continue reading
Microsoft Buying Nokia A Great Move. But iPhone And iOS 7 Are Already Set To Remake Mobile Computing Once Again.
Do not be misled. Microsoft purchasing (the best of) Nokia — at firesale prices — is a brilliant move. Nokia + Skype + Bing + Office + Outlook + Nokia Maps + Nokia imaging. That is … Continue reading
My Mad Crazy Brilliant Ideas To Save Apple From Certain Doom
Apple is doomed. No innovation, no market share, no new products, no Steve Jobs. Death — soon — is all but certain. This is the consensus, at least, from mobile analysts, Nobel-winning economists and tech bloggers … Continue reading
If Only Steve Jobs Were Alive To Witness The Final Destruction Of Microsoft
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, is officially out — sometime in the next 12 months. Another victim of Steve Jobs and the iPhone. Blame that crazy, rebellious vision of Jobs which somehow changed the world, rendering … Continue reading
Steve Jobs And The Radical Innovation Of Fair Prices For Great Products
I’ll trade you one Twitter re-tweet and a Facebook Like for two LinkedIn endorsements. Deal? How about if I throw in a recommendation on Yelp? In a world where it seems as if everything has … Continue reading
