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All points pretty valid even today, and RIM has pretty much sealed its fate.
Simply said by the creator of Instapaper:
"Previous-me tried to persuade everyone to switch to my setup, but I now know that it’s not worth the effort. I’ll never know someone else’s requirements, environment, or priorities as well as they do...
You should use whatever works for you. And I no longer have the patience or hubris to convince you what that should be. All I can offer is one data point: what I use, and how it works for me."
The article also includes images from Susan's sketchbook where she designed many of the "iconic" icons
The % share picture changes drastically depending on whether you are considering the OS share, revenue share or profit share. Not to mention the kind of product segmentation difference between Apple & the others (Samsung shown as an example here)
Changing your design with every new launch kind of defeats the purpose of coming out with a good design. This is another area Apple seems to get much better than its competitors. In fact, Apple has stuck to designs inspired from others longer than its original creators.
It's not just enough to have a good idea. It's the execution and final polishing that counts. Explained with a nice metaphor.
I don't suppose Steve Jobs envisioned that Apple would be making money (the 30% App store cut) through sales of Smurfberries & barrels of cash & the likes...
A nice piece on Steve Jobs, and the anecdote on how close he was to meeting Tim Berners-Lee and his demo of what became the www (it was apparently written on a NeXt machine) makes you wonder "what if" that meeting had happened...
Supply chain is an area where Apple & Amazon have really capitalized & seem to share similarities.
Two simple laws to remember:
"If you’re not paying for something, you have no reason to expect it to be there tomorrow."
"If you’re not paying for something, you’re not a customer; you’re the product being sold"
And, as Apple showed with its MobileMe to iCloud transition, your data may not be safe even if you pay for the service. So, keep your expectations in check - "The “cloud” is not your friend; it’s where your data goes when it ceases to be yours."
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If you’re not paying for something, you’re not a customer; you’re the product being sold
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The “cloud” is not your friend; it’s where your data goes when it ceases to be yours.
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All very good, but it is a very narrow view based solely on the US. The real so called Blue Ocean is actually in the developing markets where the number of mobile phone users makes the US market pale in comparison. That would be the actual chart that you need to understand.
Malcolm Gladwell on Steve Jobs, based in particular on Walter Isaacson's biography. Offers a very different view of Jobs - was he a visionary or a tweaker?
If you ever wondered what Tim Cook was doing in the last decade, then this is pretty much the article that defines his role as the COO
Definitely not an Android fan. I agree with the bit about the feel of the OS, but not the app variety on the market\app store.
Edwin H. Land, the genius domus of Polaroid Corporation and inventor of instant photography, and in many ways similar to Jobs both in terms of taste and in terms of the career path
Not all are Apple to apple comparisons, but does have some interesting stats nonetheless. It uses Apple's market cap for comparison.
Proposed redesign of the iTunes agreement. One aspect that Apple has not been able to simplify thus far.
It's not enough to just have a vision & supreme taste. You need to be able to really refine them & make them a reality.
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But the idea, so common in this week's media coverage, that Jobs was an inspired savant who succeeded by taking big risks on personal hunches, is way off the mark. Rather than worship at the altar of inspiration and "going with your gut," the rest of us should use this moment to consider the fundamental strategies that drove Apple's success.
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And, oh, the marketing: brilliant marketing. No one is better at creating attention than Apple. But attention without fulfillment is a straw fire. The magicians say "Presto!" and we gasp in delight. But they deflect our attention from the back-breaking labor that goes into assuring a perfect customer experience, hundreds of times a day, at 300 stores around the world, and countless conversations on the phone.
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