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Why iPhone Sales Are Doubling Every Year.

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.

Why iPhone Sales Are Doubling Every Year.

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.

Why iPhone Sales Are Doubling Every Year.

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.

The Moorish Revival And The Arab Spring

It is autumn now and the Arab spring is still a work in progress, but that is probably how it was always going to be. It took hundreds of years for democracy to take hold in the West and even with a template to look at it would be expected that it will be a step by step process in the Arab world. Although the desire for more freedom and self determination in the Arab world is clear the shape of their democracy will not necessarily be the same as ours, it will be impacted by their history, geography and culture. It will also be influenced by the particular challenges of living in a part of the world fought over by competing religions and still bearing the marks of Western interference.

Much has been made of the assistance given to mass protest movements by mobile communication technology, the iPhones and iPads and the like, and the social networking applications that run on them, products of Western culture, at least the technological and industrial part of it. While it is probably true, even in the West, that we haven’t fully assimilated this technology in to our wider culture, it is clear that it has the potential to widen and enhance our daily experiences. There are certainly many more depressing, as well as some more inspiring, aspects of modern Western culture.

Although, in architectural terms, the ‘Moorish Revival’ reached its height in the 1920′s, elements of Moorish style are adopted by Western designers on a more or less continuous basis. Why create pastiches of other peoples style and nail them on to places they don’t belong? some might argue. This is unnecessarily negative, the genius of Moorish garden design, particularly in the transitions between indoor and outdoor spaces has a huge amount to offer to traditional English garden design, without ever needing to be copied slavishly. The colour combinations used in Moorish art, textiles and interior design including, but certainly not limited to, the classic contrast of Adobe with deep indigo and slightly bone white ceramics work perfectly. This is true whether or not you have seen them is situ, in the killing sun and dense shadows of Moroccan courtyards for instance.

So what is the point of linking together the Moorish revival and the Arab spring? Simply that the parts of one culture that transpose usefully or aesthetically into another should be celebrated. As well as implicitly pat ourselves on the back for developing the technology that aided the Arab spring, as the Western media have been apt to do, we should acknowledge the mathematics developed by Arabian scholars that underpinned this technology in the first place. And, while talking of the combination of communication technology and Moorish design, check out this combination of both in iPhone covers and Kindle covers, just one example that works, there are probably many more.

Top 3 Reasons To Invest In A Swiss Chalet

Many people are becoming expatriates nowadays and surprisingly a large number are choosing to buy Swiss property and move to Switzerland. A lot of British ex-pats often choose to move to countries like Spain and Australia as there are large communities of British people living there. Switzerland doesn’t seem to have the same appeal as these countries with warm climates so what is it that draws people to Switzerland?

Switzerland’s Location In Europe – Found at the heart of Europe, Switzerland is perfectly placed for visiting other countries. This means that travelling to other countries for a holiday can be as simple as a car drive rather than a 5 hour flight. Some of the top tourist destinations in Europe such as Germany, Holland and France are literally a stones throw away.

The Swiss Alps – The Swiss Alps border France, Italy and Austria and are home to some of the best skiing facilities in the world. A lot of people have taken up sking and snowboarding as a lifestyle and are now looking to move to areas that provide good snow during the ski season. This has lead to a number of people investing in Swiss chalets and French ski property. Many people buy this type of alpine property purely to use during the ski season as most of them can be found in and around the ski resorts.

Its Good To Be Neutral – In times of war the Swiss have always remained as a neutral party rather than getting involved. The Swiss military has a limited number of professional soldiers but does have national conscription this could explain why they only tend to take part in peace keeping operations. As a result of this Switzerland do not use a large amount of public money to fund the military as it is not needed. This means that more money from tax is spent on public services which is why Switzerland has some of the best public healthcare, transport and other services in the world.