Browsing Tag Steve Jobs
Is Spotify the Kingmaker in the mobile and iOS wars?
I've posted earlier about the epic battle thats just getting underway bertween apple and google for ownership of mobile and search. But the Kingmaker has been largely ignored. Now I love music. And for the past 35 years +, I've bought all my favourites over and over again. From vinyl down the record shop, then cassette, then CD, then pirated MP3 and latterly legal more...
The new mobile format “Betamax” wars – Google Android vs Apple ioS – Who wins?
In what seems like a Galaxy Far Far Away (sorry George Lucas) in my misty distant past, there was a format war between rival companies aiming too control the extremely lucrative home video recorder / player market. It got messy over a very long drawn out period during the early nineties. There were winners and losers in the Corporate side, and mostly losers in the home more...
“If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will”
"If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will" The famous quote from Steve Jobs really strikes a cord with today's traditional print based news publishers. In the light of Johnstone press announcing record losses and extremely meagre digital gains, Steve's words ring truer than ever. In this context, his statement applies to Apple's electronic devices, but swap more...
Are we heading for another dotcom crash as a result of Facebook’s $100bn valuation?
As investors flock to buy a piece of the action from Facebook's recent flotation of shares, I can't help but feel we're fuelling the fire for another internet financial disaster. Haven't we been here before? Bad enough that the West's economy is in ruins. But with investors pouring money into products like Groupon, and Angel investors backing seemingly endless more...
Real Legacy of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, one of the greatest visionaries of our generation has left us. What remains to be seen is if Apple Computer can continue Steve's pioneering achievements beyond the 4 year road map that he has reported to have left behind. Is Apple greater than one great man? Time will tell. Till then, delight in this YouTube clip of his Stanford more...
