Apple’s iPhone Business Alone Is Now Bigger Than Microsoft
Henry Blodget, businessinsider.comTech writer MG Siegler just noted a remarkable fact:
Apple’s iPhone business alone is now bigger than Microsoft.
Think about that.
The iPhone did not exist five years ago. And now it’s bigger than Microsoft.
Not Windows. Not Office.…
Ok, so now Apple dwarfs Microsoft. Which company will dwarf Apple in the future?
Apple to announce tools, platform to "digitally destroy" textbook publishing
Apple is slated to announce the fruits of its labor on improving the use of technology in education at its special media event on Thursday, January 19. While speculation has so far centered on digital textbooks, sources close to the matter have confirmed to Ars that Apple will announce tools to help create interactive e-books—the “GarageBand for e-books,” so to speak—and expand its current platform to distribute them to iPhone and iPad users.
Now I am becoming really curious about this…
The iPad’s other life: medical device extraordinaire — gigaom.com
Much of the iPad’s use in medical settings so far has been in the form of pilots and trials, but it’s getting ready to take off in a much bigger way. The Veteran’s Administration in the U.S. is looking at rolling out as many as 100,000 tablets across 152 hospitals, says Wired, based on the success of the 1,500 trial iPads it currently has in use. Over 80 percent of U.S. hospitals have similar trials in place, according to recent comments made by Apple CEO Tim Cook, which means that many more could soon take the plunge, resulting in a huge uptick of orders from medical organizations for the generally consumer-oriented device.
The Personal Computer Is Dead - Zittrain in Technology Review
A flowering of innovation and communication was ignited by the rise of the PC and the Web and their generative characteristics. Software was installed one machine at a time, a relationship among myriad software makers and users. Sites could appear anywhere on the Web, a relationship among myriad webmasters and surfers. Now activity is clumping around a handful of portals: two or three OS makers that are in a position to manage all apps (and content within them) in an ongoing way, and a diminishing set of cloud hosting providers like Amazon that can provide the denial-of-service resistant places to put up a website or blog.
An important point. This development might lead to a closure of the innovation boom around phones, computers and tablets – and, some would say, back to order again when a few large operators are managing ecosystems in which we reside in an embedded and cozy environment, and innovation is steered into the areas these giants are supporting.
But, it might also lead into a completely other direction since these platforms also open up innovation capability to a much broader community. When Internet and the PC was born, the nerds tha drove that development wasn’t that many in numbers due to the relatively difficult and new technology. I would guess that the number of innovators that now are competing to redefine our world by creating iOS and Android apps are much higher, even if they in some sense are more restricted by what the controlling ecosystem manager wants.
It is important to note that the lion part of the historical innovation made possible by electricity took place AFTER the standards of AC 110 or 220V was in place. Yes, it probably stiffled a lot if things you might be able to invent around basic electricity distribution, but on the other hand it enabled an explosion of electricity drive machines that created the 20th centuries homes.
The Rise of Digital Civilizations Will Define Our Post-PC Future « if connected
These great digital powers [Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and maybe Microsoft] are now building Digital Civilizations, rather than a series of mere products, individual platforms or even ecosystems (around a platform). They are pursuing strategies that reach far beyond the confines of existing markets. They are causing widespread market collisions as they push industries to overlap, merge or cease to exist. They are outflanking and disrupting companies that follow less ambitious corporate strategies.
These new Digital Civilizations use identity to tie numerous disparate products, many devices, multiple platforms and product portfolios together into their long term strategy. Each Civilization has hundreds of millions of active users — often with credit cards attached — far more than even the largest telecom operators or media companies. They straddle industries rather than operating within legacy market sectors. They have an organizing ideology underlying their strategy that motivates and attracts talented employees, excites partners, and is the foundation for the marketing that entices users to become their customers.
This is an interesting analysis of what is going on… Well worth reading and thinking about!
Forrester to your IT dept: Let them use Macs
Employees are not only asking IT departments for Macs at work, they’re bringing their own into the office. The Forrester report finds that 22 percent of enterprise businesses foresee the use of Macs owned by employees “increasing significantly.” But at the same time 41 percent of those same companies don’t allow those employees to access e-mail or the company network on those machines, either at the office or from home. As analyst David Johnson writes, that just encourages people to spend their own time figuring out how to bypass these rules:That leaves a lot of employees to find their own ways to get around corporate prohibition. Companies Forrester spoke with for this document described a gray market emerging internally, where employees share tips and strategies to use their Macs at work and bypass corporate roadblocks.
Stowe Boyd: iPhone5 Case Tells A Lot
The important reason to read this might be the addition of Stowe Boyd:
So, the next market that Apple plans to destabilize is retail purchasing: credit cards, point of sales systems, back office financial processing, and everything connected to that.
This is an interesting claim and since Apple have more pieces of this puzzle in place than most of the other players this is definitely not impossible…
Source: The New York Times
How Tablets Looked Before and After the iPad
Since Apple introduced the iPad in January of 2010, the rest of its competition has been trying desperately to play catch-up. If you’re curious, here’s how tablet design looked before and after the iPad was introduced. As you can see it’s pretty self-explanatory. Apple innovated, everyone else reiterated.
(via: iDownloadBlog)
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Source: idownloadblog.com
