Posts tagged Apple

They’re not going to just walk in

Ed Colligan, Palm CEO, 2007:

We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.

Chris Moseley, Samsung AV Product  Manager, 2012:

We’ve not seen what they’ve done but what we can say is that they don’t have 10,000 people in R&D in the vision category. [...] So, from that perspective, it’s not a great concern but it remains to be seen what they’re going to come out with, if anything.

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The bizarro-Motorola

MG Siegler:

In order to acquire such a company at the market price Google sets, it would take something like $14 trillion.

Via parislemon

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Steve Jobs Dies

Tim Cook:

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.

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The New Apple Advantage

John Gruber:

But at this point, it seems clear to me that however superior Apple’s design is, it’s their business and operations strength — the Cook side of the equation — that is furthest ahead of their competition, and the more sustainable advantage. It cannot be copied without going through the same sort of decade-long process that Apple went through.

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That day has come

Steve Jobs, August 24, 2011:

To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.

As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.

I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.

I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.

Steve

Damn!

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Resigned

John Gruber:

Jobs’s greatest creation isn’t any Apple product. It is Apple itself.

So true. History will judge Steve Jobs by Apple’s future success under Tim Cook as much as by the iconic products he released in Apple’s 35 years.

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Rope-A-Dope

MG Siegler:

This all begs the question: over the past two years, would you have gained more knowledge by reading Lyons, or by having your head up your own ass?

Tough call, indeed.

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Fiction: Apple Wireless

Jean-Louis Gassée:

That was the reverie…

Back to reality, why can’t carriers stop playing their games and show us some decency?

Read it at Monday Note

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This all happened before

Daniel Eran Dilger:

Google’s Froyo was a bit like Microsoft’s Windows 95: the marked end of any pretense of respect for Apple’s original user interface intellectual property, and the shameless beginning of a wholesale rip-off of any and all intellectual property that might be between it and market dominance.

Full article at RoughlyDrafted Magazine

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Apple’s main product after 10 years


Via TUAW http://lnkd.ca/c4

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