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vansmack

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Lessons from Apple
« on: June 13, 2007, 12:08:00 pm »
Two Good Articles from last weeks Economist about Apple before the launch of the iPhone:
 
 Things other companies could learn from Apple:
 http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=9302662
 
 FOR a company that looked doomed a decade ago, it has been quite a comeback. Today Apple is literally an iconic company. Look at your iPod: the company name appears only in the small print. Some of the power of its brand comes from the extraordinary story of a computer company rescued from near-collapse by its co-founder, Steve Jobs, who returned to Apple in 1997 after years of exile, reinvented it as a consumer-electronics firm and is now taking it into the billion-unit-a-year mobile-phone industry (see article). But mostly Apple's zest comes from its reputation for inventiveness. In polls of the world's most innovative firms it consistently ranks first. From its first computer in 1977 to the mouse-driven Macintosh in 1984, the iPod music-player in 2001 and now the iPhone, which goes on sale in America this month, Apple has prospered by keeping just ahead of the times.
 
 
 Apples Third Act:
 http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9298983
 
 IN ANY other setting, it would have been corny to quote from a Beatles song to sum up a three-decade relationship that has encompassed partnership and alliance, rivalry and enmity, as well as defeats, triumphs and reversals on both sides. But not when Steve Jobs of Apple was talking to Bill Gates of Microsoft after reminiscing about the old times on a conference stage last week. ??You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead,? he said. And there were moist eyes in the audience.
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K8teebug

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Re: Lessons from Apple
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2007, 12:28:00 pm »
Not to mention that the design element of everything they make is superb.
 
 And, my macbook worked when I took it out of the box.  Unlike my previous pc.
 
 I heart apple.

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Re: Lessons from Apple
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2007, 12:41:00 pm »
<img src="http://arkitekturnytt.no/uploaded_images/apple_cube-777513.jpg" alt=" - " />
 
 Well, the Mac Cube wasn't so hot (hey, look, it's a CD toaster!)

vansmack

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Re: Lessons from Apple
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2007, 12:53:00 pm »
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Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
 
 Well, the Mac Cube wasn't so hot (hey, look, it's a CD toaster!)
I liked the description in the article:  "conveniently forgotten"
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Re: Lessons from Apple
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2007, 01:29:00 pm »
I've thought of renaming my boat from THE BENICASSIM to THE IPOD, because if it weren't for that little bugger and some blind faith in all things Apple about 20 years ago, there would be no BENICASSIM on the Potomac.  Long live Steve Jobs!

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Re: Lessons from Apple
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2007, 03:19:00 pm »
is anyone here actually getting an iphone?
 
 i finally upgraded from my 4-year-old 3rd generation iPod to one of the new-fangled 5.5g video thingys, and it's fucking great
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Re: Lessons from Apple
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2007, 03:20:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
  is anyone here actually getting an iphone?
 
Strongly considering it. My contract is up with Cingular and I was going to stay with them anyway. I'd like to use someone else's first before I buy it though (or at least hear a review from someone I trust).

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Re: Lessons from Apple
« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2007, 03:24:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
  is anyone here actually getting an iphone?
 
 
We are being offered the phones through work in exchange for our Blackberry or Smartphone, but there's no way I'd give up my Verizon 3G network as 99% of my work phone is used for data usage.
 
 When at&t's network catches up and the phone moves to 3G, I'd likley give it a good look.
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Re: Lessons from Apple
« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2007, 03:53:00 pm »
i would really think about it
 
 but they are building a verizon tower a mile from my new house, so i doubt it
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Re: Lessons from Apple
« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2007, 05:22:00 pm »
i'm really tempted by the iphone (hello, consumer fetishism!) but i'm going to try holding out for the second generation.
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Re: Lessons from Apple
« Reply #10 on: June 13, 2007, 05:50:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
  is anyone here actually getting an iphone?
 
 
We are being offered the phones through work in exchange for our Blackberry or Smartphone, but there's no way I'd give up my Verizon 3G network as 99% of my work phone is used for data usage.
 
 When at&t's network catches up and the phone moves to 3G, I'd likley give it a good look. [/b]
But does the Iphone have an enterprise messaging app?  I didn't think it did, but I'm waiting for it to, then when it does and gets release for t-mobile i'm in.

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Re: Lessons from Apple
« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2007, 06:01:00 pm »
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  But does the Iphone have an enterprise messaging app?  
Nope.  And that was the first thing I asked our tech guys when they were offering it as a solution (I'm guessing at&t was cutting us a favorable deal to get them in the market with their $500 price tag).  The iPhone isn??t a true enterprise device: you can't synchronize the phones contact and calendar applications with Exchange or Lotus Notes servers.  Less important to me, you can't edit office documents, but more importantly, you can't even view them, which I do often.
 
 Our guys said Apple is working to allow third-party applications that will fix these shortcomings, particularly since Apple made third-party development possible by using its OS X operating system on the iPhone (the Economist article even alludes to it, but says that they have not done so as of now).
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Re: Lessons from Apple
« Reply #12 on: June 13, 2007, 06:05:00 pm »
..argh..too much mountain dew.
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vansmack

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Re: Lessons from Apple
« Reply #13 on: June 13, 2007, 06:05:00 pm »
..my bad..triple post.
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Re: Lessons from Apple
« Reply #14 on: June 13, 2007, 07:59:00 pm »
I'm strongly considering getting an iPhone. My contract's up and my Motorola has served me well but it's starting to die, so it's time to replace it. I travel a lot for work so a phone/music combo would be great.  I've had several music-capable Treo-like devices from work and all of them are OK for 5 or 6 songs but not for a 6-hour flight, so I am hoping the iPhone will be the ticket. One less gadget and charger to drag across the country.