You are currently browsing the archives for October, 2011.
Here are some quotes about the iPhone – see if you can match them to the people who made them?
1. “We make the whole widget”
2. “I like to dial numbers with one hand, and maybe I’m the only one.”
3. “If there is something good in the world then we copy with pride.”
A. Bill Gates
B. Steve Jobs
C. Anssi Vanjoki (CEO of Nokia)
These are telling quotes and the success of the iPhone is bound up with them. Lets take the first quote first, it’s a bit of a giveaway and could only have been made by Steve Jobs, the inspirational leader of Apple. He is referring to the way Apple are vertically integrated; software, hardware and user experience are all under their control. If there are compromises to be made they will make them, not a badly organised cabal of contributing companies competing for a bigger share of the value chain. In particular this allowed Apple to cut out of the loop any idea that the mobile phone network operator is important in the mobile phone business. That may not even be a bad thing for the operators in the short run, in the long run it will reduce them to the status of a utility, dull but profitable. Also importantly it allowed Apple to produce ‘the whole widget’. GPS, WLAN, Bluetooth, Accelerometer, Touchscreen, Camera; enough to make the application platform so compelling that they could effectively name their price for it, and choose which operators they wanted to work with and not vice-versa.
Bill Gates is more intelligent and has a better grasp of the technology market than the second quotation might lead you to believe. Particularly if, like me, you don’t have a problem dialling numbers on the iPhone with one hand. But to look at a product and see only a perceived minor flaw rather than a huge range of benefits may lead you at best into a false sense of security about your own products, at worst to miss the reason why you are about to go the way of the dinosaurs.
But the most telling quote is from the CEO of the erstwhile number one mobile phone manufacturer. You don’t get to stay number one by copying something better than you have, even if you do it with pride. Why weren’t Nokia striving for that ultimate user experience and the platform which enabled everything that could be done to be done? They had the resources and far more experience in the handheld device industry, Apple Newton notwithstanding. It was not a case of the complacency inherent in the Gates quote but more likely a participation in an industry ‘group-think’. The mobile industry could only see the world the way it was not the way it could be. The mobile world was the way it was because the operators thought they owned the customer and knew the sort of phone platforms that customers would tolerate while giving them, the operators, an easy route to profit.
Oh dear, oh dear, at least for Nokia the world is not the way it was. On the other hand Apple has made not only itself but a whole ecosystem of companies a tidy sum of money. The market for iPhone4 covers, iPhone4 cases, iPhone adapters and chargers iPhone applications etc etc, is (conservatively) in excess of $4bn a year.
Share and Enjoy:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Posted 4 months ago at 9:56 am. Add a comment
Here are some quotes about the iPhone – see if you can match them to the people who made them?
1. “We make the whole widget”
2. “I like to dial numbers with one hand, and maybe I’m the only one.”
3. “If there is something good in the world then we copy with pride.”
A. Bill Gates
B. Steve Jobs
C. Anssi Vanjoki (CEO of Nokia)
These are telling quotes and the success of the iPhone is bound up with them. Lets take the first quote first, it’s a bit of a giveaway and could only have been made by Steve Jobs, the inspirational leader of Apple. He is referring to the way Apple are vertically integrated; software, hardware and user experience are all under their control. If there are compromises to be made they will make them, not a badly organised cabal of contributing companies competing for a bigger share of the value chain. In particular this allowed Apple to cut out of the loop any idea that the mobile phone network operator is important in the mobile phone business. That may not even be a bad thing for the operators in the short run, in the long run it will reduce them to the status of a utility, dull but profitable. Also importantly it allowed Apple to produce ‘the whole widget’. GPS, WLAN, Bluetooth, Accelerometer, Touchscreen, Camera; enough to make the application platform so compelling that they could effectively name their price for it, and choose which operators they wanted to work with and not vice-versa.
Bill Gates is more intelligent and has a better grasp of the technology market than the second quotation might lead you to believe. Particularly if, like me, you don’t have a problem dialling numbers on the iPhone with one hand. But to look at a product and see only a perceived minor flaw rather than a huge range of benefits may lead you at best into a false sense of security about your own products, at worst to miss the reason why you are about to go the way of the dinosaurs.
But the most telling quote is from the CEO of the erstwhile number one mobile phone manufacturer. You don’t get to stay number one by copying something better than you have, even if you do it with pride. Why weren’t Nokia striving for that ultimate user experience and the platform which enabled everything that could be done to be done? They had the resources and far more experience in the handheld device industry, Apple Newton notwithstanding. It was not a case of the complacency inherent in the Gates quote but more likely a participation in an industry ‘group-think’. The mobile industry could only see the world the way it was not the way it could be. The mobile world was the way it was because the operators thought they owned the customer and knew the sort of phone platforms that customers would tolerate while giving them, the operators, an easy route to profit.
Oh dear, oh dear, at least for Nokia the world is not the way it was. On the other hand Apple has made not only itself but a whole ecosystem of companies a tidy sum of money. The market for iPhone4 covers, iPhone4 cases, iPhone adapters and chargers iPhone applications etc etc, is (conservatively) in excess of $4bn a year.
Share and Enjoy:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Posted 4 months ago at 12:47 pm. Add a comment
Here are some quotes about the iPhone – see if you can match them to the people who made them?
1. “We make the whole widget”
2. “I like to dial numbers with one hand, and maybe I’m the only one.”
3. “If there is something good in the world then we copy with pride.”
A. Bill Gates
B. Steve Jobs
C. Anssi Vanjoki (CEO of Nokia)
These are telling quotes and the success of the iPhone is bound up with them. Lets take the first quote first, it’s a bit of a giveaway and could only have been made by Steve Jobs, the inspirational leader of Apple. He is referring to the way Apple are vertically integrated; software, hardware and user experience are all under their control. If there are compromises to be made they will make them, not a badly organised cabal of contributing companies competing for a bigger share of the value chain. In particular this allowed Apple to cut out of the loop any idea that the mobile phone network operator is important in the mobile phone business. That may not even be a bad thing for the operators in the short run, in the long run it will reduce them to the status of a utility, dull but profitable. Also importantly it allowed Apple to produce ‘the whole widget’. GPS, WLAN, Bluetooth, Accelerometer, Touchscreen, Camera; enough to make the application platform so compelling that they could effectively name their price for it, and choose which operators they wanted to work with and not vice-versa.
Bill Gates is more intelligent and has a better grasp of the technology market than the second quotation might lead you to believe. Particularly if, like me, you don’t have a problem dialling numbers on the iPhone with one hand. But to look at a product and see only a perceived minor flaw rather than a huge range of benefits may lead you at best into a false sense of security about your own products, at worst to miss the reason why you are about to go the way of the dinosaurs.
But the most telling quote is from the CEO of the erstwhile number one mobile phone manufacturer. You don’t get to stay number one by copying something better than you have, even if you do it with pride. Why weren’t Nokia striving for that ultimate user experience and the platform which enabled everything that could be done to be done? They had the resources and far more experience in the handheld device industry, Apple Newton notwithstanding. It was not a case of the complacency inherent in the Gates quote but more likely a participation in an industry ‘group-think’. The mobile industry could only see the world the way it was not the way it could be. The mobile world was the way it was because the operators thought they owned the customer and knew the sort of phone platforms that customers would tolerate while giving them, the operators, an easy route to profit.
Oh dear, oh dear, at least for Nokia the world is not the way it was. On the other hand Apple has made not only itself but a whole ecosystem of companies a tidy sum of money. The market for iPhone4 covers, iPhone4 cases, iPhone adapters and chargers iPhone applications etc etc, is (conservatively) in excess of $4bn a year.
Share and Enjoy:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Posted 4 months ago at 12:42 pm. Add a comment
Here are some quotes about the iPhone – see if you can match them to the people who made them?
1. “We make the whole widget”
2. “I like to dial numbers with one hand, and maybe I’m the only one.”
3. “If there is something good in the world then we copy with pride.”
A. Bill Gates
B. Steve Jobs
C. Anssi Vanjoki (CEO of Nokia)
These are telling quotes and the success of the iPhone is bound up with them. Lets take the first quote first, it’s a bit of a giveaway and could only have been made by Steve Jobs, the inspirational leader of Apple. He is referring to the way Apple are vertically integrated; software, hardware and user experience are all under their control. If there are compromises to be made they will make them, not a badly organised cabal of contributing companies competing for a bigger share of the value chain. In particular this allowed Apple to cut out of the loop any idea that the mobile phone network operator is important in the mobile phone business. That may not even be a bad thing for the operators in the short run, in the long run it will reduce them to the status of a utility, dull but profitable. Also importantly it allowed Apple to produce ‘the whole widget’. GPS, WLAN, Bluetooth, Accelerometer, Touchscreen, Camera; enough to make the application platform so compelling that they could effectively name their price for it, and choose which operators they wanted to work with and not vice-versa.
Bill Gates is more intelligent and has a better grasp of the technology market than the second quotation might lead you to believe. Particularly if, like me, you don’t have a problem dialling numbers on the iPhone with one hand. But to look at a product and see only a perceived minor flaw rather than a huge range of benefits may lead you at best into a false sense of security about your own products, at worst to miss the reason why you are about to go the way of the dinosaurs.
But the most telling quote is from the CEO of the erstwhile number one mobile phone manufacturer. You don’t get to stay number one by copying something better than you have, even if you do it with pride. Why weren’t Nokia striving for that ultimate user experience and the platform which enabled everything that could be done to be done? They had the resources and far more experience in the handheld device industry, Apple Newton notwithstanding. It was not a case of the complacency inherent in the Gates quote but more likely a participation in an industry ‘group-think’. The mobile industry could only see the world the way it was not the way it could be. The mobile world was the way it was because the operators thought they owned the customer and knew the sort of phone platforms that customers would tolerate while giving them, the operators, an easy route to profit.
Oh dear, oh dear, at least for Nokia the world is not the way it was. On the other hand Apple has made not only itself but a whole ecosystem of companies a tidy sum of money. The market for iPhone4 covers, iPhone4 cases, iPhone adapters and chargers iPhone applications etc etc, is (conservatively) in excess of $4bn a year.
Share and Enjoy:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Posted 4 months ago at 10:44 am. Add a comment
Here are some quotes about the iPhone – see if you can match them to the people who made them?
1. “We make the whole widget”
2. “I like to dial numbers with one hand, and maybe I’m the only one.”
3. “If there is something good in the world then we copy with pride.”
A. Bill Gates
B. Steve Jobs
C. Anssi Vanjoki (CEO of Nokia)
These are telling quotes and the success of the iPhone is bound up with them. Lets take the first quote first, it’s a bit of a giveaway and could only have been made by Steve Jobs, the inspirational leader of Apple. He is referring to the way Apple are vertically integrated; software, hardware and user experience are all under their control. If there are compromises to be made they will make them, not a badly organised cabal of contributing companies competing for a bigger share of the value chain. In particular this allowed Apple to cut out of the loop any idea that the mobile phone network operator is important in the mobile phone business. That may not even be a bad thing for the operators in the short run, in the long run it will reduce them to the status of a utility, dull but profitable. Also importantly it allowed Apple to produce ‘the whole widget’. GPS, WLAN, Bluetooth, Accelerometer, Touchscreen, Camera; enough to make the application platform so compelling that they could effectively name their price for it, and choose which operators they wanted to work with and not vice-versa.
Bill Gates is more intelligent and has a better grasp of the technology market than the second quotation might lead you to believe. Particularly if, like me, you don’t have a problem dialling numbers on the iPhone with one hand. But to look at a product and see only a perceived minor flaw rather than a huge range of benefits may lead you at best into a false sense of security about your own products, at worst to miss the reason why you are about to go the way of the dinosaurs.
But the most telling quote is from the CEO of the erstwhile number one mobile phone manufacturer. You don’t get to stay number one by copying something better than you have, even if you do it with pride. Why weren’t Nokia striving for that ultimate user experience and the platform which enabled everything that could be done to be done? They had the resources and far more experience in the handheld device industry, Apple Newton notwithstanding. It was not a case of the complacency inherent in the Gates quote but more likely a participation in an industry ‘group-think’. The mobile industry could only see the world the way it was not the way it could be. The mobile world was the way it was because the operators thought they owned the customer and knew the sort of phone platforms that customers would tolerate while giving them, the operators, an easy route to profit.
Oh dear, oh dear, at least for Nokia the world is not the way it was. On the other hand Apple has made not only itself but a whole ecosystem of companies a tidy sum of money. The market for iPhone4 covers, iPhone4 cases, iPhone adapters and chargers iPhone applications etc etc, is (conservatively) in excess of $4bn a year.
Share and Enjoy:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Posted 4 months ago at 10:43 am. Add a comment
