I got a call on a Tuesday from Mike Rashkin, who was Manager of Apple Computer’s Apple Pacific group. He told me (paraphrasing): Tim, I have two guys who have Kanji word processing software that we want for Apple Japan. We want to invest $80,000 in their business but we need them to have a [...]
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I just read Stats: iPad Users Consume 3X Videos As Other Users on Read/Write Web. Here are more details (direct quote from that post): iPad is now the fifth most popular mobile device* *In terms of unique users, trailing only iPhone, iPod Touch, SymbianOS and Android (in that order) iPad users consume 3X as many [...]
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I’m watching with great enjoyment the Apple iPad announcement and especially all the analysis of the iPad vs. Kindle implications. That seems like the big issue. Google “iPad vs Kindle” some time. As I write this, two mornings after the announcement, I get 4.3 million hits on that. For example, PC Magazine calls the iPad [...]
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Once upon a time I was a vice president at a small consulting firm called Creative Strategies. That was in the early 1980s–and it still exists today, due mostly to the hard work and intelligence of Tim Bajarin, who took it over after I left. One thing that struck me as I worked there is [...]
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Stock options can be wondrous things. They can also be smoke and mirrors, or a pea under a whole bunch of walnut shells. So here are some points to keep in mind, whether you’re the founder offering options to your startup employees, or the employee being offered the options. The classic stock option is an [...]
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Noah Parsons shared this photo on his Lighting Out blog. He took it with his iPhone in the Apple store in San Francisco last weekend. Noah described it to me as “wall to wall people.” No recession showing there. Please don’t get me wrong: I’m not denying the very bad economy; it’s just that there [...]
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