Apple After Steve Jobs

“There is no company on earth that is set up for the next ten years in the technology space like Apple is, and that’s mostly because Apple is one of the few companies to embrace the fact that to move forward, you have to compete with yourself and your own products.”

Jonathan Geller is the founder of Boy Genius Report

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“As for the iPad 4, I’m not at all upset that Apple ‘obsoleted’ my 6-month-old iPad 3. You’re asking me would I rather the pace of innovation slowed down just so I could feel like the king of the hill for a bit longer? That’s crazy. If there’s one thing you’ll never hear me ask for, it would be that Apple slow down the rate at which iPads get better.”

Fraser Speirs

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Amazon's new Kindles is good news for us

Apple must have been listening to what Amazon had to say this week when then announced their new Kindle devices. I think Amazon is much more competitive than any other Android tablets for Apple. The reason is very simple: they kind of have a similar business oriented model: they have content and they build their own devices. They have  complete control of the stack. This is one of the thing that makes Apple so successful. 

How is Apple going to answer that? Lowering prices is not an option. They don’t go after  market made of lower priced machines. Apple’s answer is going to be the iPad mini: a great device, with plenty of software to run and content from the iTunes store. But, Apple must take into account Amazon’s announcements. From the Betanews’s post:

Apple must be scrambling to retune its iPad Mini announcement for later this month, but what Microsoft has to be feeling (especially with this week’s lackluster Nokia phone intro) is panic.

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Apple wins, Innovation wins too!

So hope that Apple wins all the appeals. Hope that Apple wins every single lawsuit in which their patents are valid. Because the fact is that Apple’s court triumph will drive innovation, not stifle it. Steve Jobs’ ultimate afterlife victory will drive prices down, not up. It will give us, the consumer, more options not less.

And this will not kill Android, it will only make it better. It will just kill the lazy part of Android. It will push Google and its cohorts to innovate, rather than just follow whatever methods and aesthetics come out of Cupertino.

What an interesting point of view!

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Sure it is time for innovation!

“This should be viewed as a perfect opportunity to ‘go back to the drawing board,’” writes Carani in an email. “Indeed, the business folks will need to provide industrial designers more creative license; no longer can they huddle around Apple’s designs. Again, this is good news for consumers as it will mean new exciting designs. Having visited many industrial design schools the world over, I am highly confident that the world’s leading industrial designers, including the impressive young American industrial designers coming out of design schools across the nation, will rise to the challenge of creating unique, appealing and different smart phone and tablet designs.”

Nothing more to add. 

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Innovate or else!

This week, on the same day Steve Jobs resigned from Apple a year ago, Apple won a big victory against Samsung. Beside this good timing, people who create and have innovative ideas won too. Here is why.

You may agree with patents or not, you may be disgusted by the patent system in general but until this whole thing get reformed, that is the way things gets protected against copying other’s work.

Samsung copied many Apple’s ideas and innovations that were protected with patents and they did it on purpose. They diluted (and continue to do so by the way) Apple’s product identity. Many copy the work of others and get away with it but sometime someone has to say “enough”. Apple did it and they won.

To Samsung who think this defeat means less consumer choices, higher priced smartphones, I’m saying you are doing it wrong again. Even in your press release after the verdict, you exhibit your bad behavior. You sound like a child who complains about not being able to copy anymore… Just try to really innovate and work as hard as Apple did and you’ll come up with your own ideas and choices will flourish and customers will still have choices… Your corporate culture is so focused on copying others that you forgot how hard it is to innovate and create original work. Go back to you drawing boards just like anyone doing innovative work.

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