Hard News: 2011: The Year Of What?
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Rich of Observationz, in reply to
Yeah, I'm wondering about whether that's a cue to buy Apple stock. Even if the new guy does nothing creative, they've got a good few years of coasting in them,
(Of course, they might instantly go down the HP path(1). If I bought stock, I'd confidently expect them to put in a bid to buy Acer within the year).
1. For the younger ones, HP used to be this great company which made stylish and innovative gear and was a smart place to work. Then they bought Apollo, Dec, [Compaq], Tandem, EDS....
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Sacha, in reply to
I heard the stairs were popular, to avoid being caught in the lift with him.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
I've been a few cubes over when he was tearing a strip off of someone (his first time around) - people are plain scared of him -
In that case I would suggest investing in One of These, could be handy around the Office.
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If they lost Jonathan Ive as well (as hinted in the Guardian earlier this year), that would definitely be a disaster for Apple.
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Sacha, in reply to
Jonathan Ive
Quite. People seem to miss that the "i" prefix in Apple's products doesn't stand for "Jobs".
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Lucy Stewart, in reply to
Quite. People seem to miss that the "i" prefix in Apple's products doesn't stand for "Jobs".
Maybe they're just fans of the original Roman alphabet.
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to be fair the "i" more likely stands for "a vowel different from 'e' just to make us different" - if apple was from elsewhere we might have ended up with üPhones
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people are plain scared of him
At least at Apple (and in most American and British companies) senior management actually talk to people.
I've worked for at least two largish NZ firms where I've never met my direct manager's boss. It's wierd and dysfunctional.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
And Google has an eye to vertical integration with its Motorola buyout proposal. While Samsung & Apple are engaged in a bunny-ears lawsuit over who really invented digital tablets.
Then again, what does it mean for the future portability of Android?
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
I’ve worked for at least two largish NZ firms where I’ve never met my direct manager’s boss. It’s wierd and dysfunctional.
Don't be stupid. Management don't talk to staff, that would be demeaning for them. They might sometimes tell you what to think but they certainly don't want your thoughts. They're managers they don't need your input just your slavish loyalty.
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While Samsung & Apple are engaged in a bunny-ears lawsuit over who really invented digital tablets
Stanley Kubrick, apparently :)
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Rich Lock, in reply to
There was also the Star Trek PADD.
#geekknowledgeshame
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Sacha, in reply to
to be fair the "i" more likely stands for "a vowel different from 'e' just to make us different"
no.
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Paul Campbell, in reply to
At the time it came in everything was eThis and eThat .... hence my comment
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Sacha, in reply to
I'll let you have that one :)
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actually my time circling Apple predated the internet explosion, I was doing a non-apple hardware startup during the .com boom - we had e everything eCash, eStocks, eMail, etc etc there for a while - I think Apple (Steve who was back by then) brought in the "i" to differentiate themselves
I did work on the 2nd generation of a hard drive based mp3 player that came out a few years prior to Apple's firstiPod - tried to make basically the iPod but couldn't get enough parts (the 1.8 inch small disk drives or the batteries) to build something in that small form factor in volume - turns out they were all on allocation to Apple ..... who weren't yet a player - our 2nd generation never reached the market, for that and a bunch of other reasons - the people I was contracting for (DEC WRL) had been bought by Compaq who were bought by HP ... who eventually tried to build their own iPod killer ....
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Sacha, in reply to
could have been worse #zune
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heh - there's probably books that could be written about M$'s various attempts at hardware ...
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Lucy Stewart, in reply to
turns out they were all on allocation to Apple ….. who weren’t yet a player
I read a fairly convincing article a couple of months ago arguing that Apple's dominance in the "i" markets was largely due to their massive capital and the ability it gave them to buy up basically the entire world's output of promising technologies years in advance - which meant when their products came out everyone else was always left playing catch-up, especially on usability. Sounds like a pretty good example of it.
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possibly - I don't think they did this on purpose to stop my design in particular, there probably just weren't enough tiny disk drives, a brand new technology to go around - and Compaq just wasn't focused on the tiny corner of its company I was consulting for at the time.
At the time our problem was really that we didn't have the muscle to convince a disk drive manufacturer that there was money in making cheaper (but somewhat less reliable) disk drives rather than denser ones - at the time drive prices were constant but density kept increasing, the sweet spot in the curve was already heading away from "the amount of music any normal person who can afford one of our products is ever likely to have".
We wanted a $50 drive rather than another $100 one with twice the density - the disk people just didn't see the volumes or money to be made because they'd been fighting a density war for so long - it was an alien business plan - having Apple throw a lot of money at you can change that, an after a runaway product like the iPod they started throwing read money at the issue
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So they can finally poll as well the the Greens?
This morning's poll is probably an outlier, but the Green vote seems to be going up and Labour's going down.
I'd think that 25% must be close to the core tribal vote for Labour.
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Rich Lock, in reply to
Probably "Psychopaths and big money - it all adds up" from NZH.
Dr Robert Hare puts the incidence in the general population at 1%.
Apparently, this can rise to 4-5% in upper management, although I don't have a handy reference for that.
Still, this is an interesting article.
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