Companies like products, have life cycles. Apple is very unusual because it was able to reinvent itself. In particular, Apple went from being a niche PC player with a relatively small market share to the leader in revolutionizing music (iPod), the cell phone (iPhone) and creating and leading the tablet market (iPad). But each of … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Do I really need to travel with seven devices
This is nuts. Look what I am traveling with: 1)Macbook Air, 2) iPad, 3) Kindle Fire, 4)Kindle, 5), iPhone , 6) iPod Touch and 7) AppleTV. In addition I carry various thumb drives, a digital camera and wear a flitbit. And guess what? They all do different things well. Continue reading
Steve Jobs Bio: A review sort
I just finished Walter Isaacson’s bio of Steve Jobs. I would say it is informative but not insightful. For tech junkies, especially of the Apple genre, the book has detailed information about the history of Apple and especially how product and business decisions were made. This history is presented in a clear and factual manor. … Continue reading
Facebook stop stealing my blog posts
I listened to an interesting interview (aren’t all) on Fresh Air about the war between google, amazon, facebook and apple (notice Microsoft was not even mentioned. By the author of this article on the same topic in Fastcompany Magazine. Clearly many companies are fighting to control the user/customer. When I was at Intel in the … Continue reading
Avram, the Merchant Seaman
Reading the Steve Jobs bio made me want to share a bit more about my past just in case Walter Isaacson does not write my bio. Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 