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Smartphones as appliances: Different phones for different usages

The growth of the mobile data marketplace is one of the bright spots for business in the current recession. Mobile carriers report increasing demand for data services, and Apple and Research in Motion both reported strong earnings aided by sales of their smartphone products.

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Difficulty is a Great Teacher

What I thought was torture when I worked at Apple - working with 23 different managers in seven years - I now see as an experience that refined by ability to work with many different kinds of leaders. It was...

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Harvard Business Publishing: Umair Haque - What Apple Knows That Facebook Doesn't

Too often, we don't recognize the power of platforms - even in Silicon Valley. Nilofer Merchant, Rubicon's CEO, writes frequently on the topic and ties it together with strategy. The piece below by Umair Haque, draws an interesting difference between...

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Thoughts on Apple's 3G iPhone announcement

Apple's 3G iPhone announcement on June 9 was probably the minimum necessary to please the Apple community. The real news was the things that weren't announced: No tablet device (again). No major changes to the form factor of the iPhone....

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Anticipation ...

Persistent rumors that Google is launching a mobile "platform" based on open business models could culminate tomorrow, November 4, 2007. Here's the link "href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20071103/tc_pcworld/139240" I found. Bunches more online this afternoon so I have to believe that something BIG is...

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Some good reads ...

I'd like to simply point you to some good articles with little commentary that I think are worth noting. Here, a great visual of every product Apple ever made since 1976. I became a customer in 1984, worked there from...

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How to do PR like Apple, or be Einstein, or Win Markets

A friend, Joel West, sent an email on Apple PR...an interesting article on Apple's PR. The article answers: how does Apple do it? Well Graham has you and every other corporation in the world covered by providing seven easy steps...

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Top 10 Trends for 2007

For work this month, I wrote some "top 10 trends" for what my team and I think should matter to those high-tech firms that want to win... details of all of these are available here. Top 10 Trends for 2007...

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Blurred at Web 2.0 Summit

Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley is the only speaker I know that can get away with delivering slide content in such a fast pace that not only can you barely follow, but you can barely connect notes. But she is...

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Strategic Defense Moves: Get Closer to your Customer

You know the best way to build a competitive position? By knowing your customer face-to-face, voice-to-voice. Not some abstract idea of who your customer is, but being able to interchange ideas with them. In a career that seems a lifetime...

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Creativity: build or buy?

Apple is known for creativity, HP is not. Is that random, or a series of choices that accumulates to one direction or the other? Asking what makes an organization or leader 'creative' is bound to get some soft answers....

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