Tag Archives: Steve Jobs

Apple 2011 = Microsoft ’97

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

Brilliant comment from “Chucky” on a post from from Michael Tsai: Microsoft in 1997 had a very specific corporate strategy. They had a temporary situation of great market leverage. And rather than concentrating on making better products for their users, … Continue reading →

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No, Apple isn’t patenting developers’ work. But it still has a bigger problem

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Ian Betteridge

Patents are hard to understand. If any government wants to reduce the costs of running a business quickly and easily, it should revamp the system of patents to make them easy for people who aren’t lawyers to read, and harder … Continue reading →

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ARM’s experience shows why Steve Jobs is right on Flash

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Ian Betteridge

Image via CrunchBase Think that Steve Jobs is talking out of his behind when he says  that Apple needs full control over its platform? Perhaps ARM’s experience with Smartbooks will help you understand: ‘ARM dominates the mobile phone chip design … Continue reading →

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CrunchGear catches the TechCrunch bullshit bug

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Ian Betteridge

Apparently, Apple is now responsible for via killing hardware innovation throughout the industry, at least according to John Biggs. Remember when Apple bought up all the Flash memory? Well, Apple has also cornered the market in touchscreens. A few months … Continue reading →

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Dan Lyons on the lack of Jobs

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Dan Lyons on why Apple needs Steve Jobs: “OK. Deep breath. Let’s admit that Jobs is a royal pain in the neck. Most of us probably wouldn’t want to work for him, or live next door to him, or have … Continue reading →

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Steve Jobs’ health: How much should Apple reveal?

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

There is, unsurprisingly, a lot of talk about Steve Jobs’ illness. It’s understandable: Jobs is a person who thousands of Mac fans around the world think of more as a friend than just the CEO of the company whose computers … Continue reading →

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An iPhone with a keyboard? And some musings on Steve Jobs

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Ian Betteridge

newswireless.net .:. News .:. “An iPhone with a keyboard? Never!” Well,…: “It is an article of Faith, of course, that whatever Steve Jobs does, is Right. And so, since the iPhone currently has no keyboard on it, it must logically … Continue reading →

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The motivations of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Ian Betteridge

Link: John Naughton: Steve Jobs’s presentation | Technology | The Observer. "If Apple’s strategy succeeds, an increasing proportion of internet users will access through a gateway entirely controlled by a single company. For delighted iPhone users, this may seem like … Continue reading →

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