Am tired - Everyday there is an article on every techblog, speculating on the arrival of the tablet from Apple.
Give it a rest guys, iots just another couple of days, let it rest.
am not so sure i can afford to read another speculative article on that.
my daily dose of techblog reading is so damn limited to this crap now... gimme something new.
Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Thursday, August 7, 2008
iPhone 3G for the Second Time !
The second Generation iPhone, incidentally named - iPhone 3G ( for 3rd Generation services) sold over million phones in three days. wow, that was something.
Now for the Second wave - Singtel will launch the iPhone3G on 9th Aug in Singapore and Airtel confirmed that at the "stroke of midnight on 21st Aug" Airtel would be launching the same in India. Now that means a staggered approach - now very similar to the worldwide launch that they had on 11th July that chocked the apple servers globally.
Another intestering note on the same - where did the million iPhones go ?
From Dev's post - 600,000 in the United States. followed by 70,000 in Japan. Now, Japan is a country where people are used to having phones that are far more advanced than the iPhone, they use their phones on a regular basis to watch live TV, pay for various shopping bills and the likes - and there was much apprehension on how the iPhone would be selling into a market like that?
PS: Did you notice that the largest market bought 8 times more phones than the second largerst - that is over a 100,000 more than all the other countries put together!
Now for the Second wave - Singtel will launch the iPhone3G on 9th Aug in Singapore and Airtel confirmed that at the "stroke of midnight on 21st Aug" Airtel would be launching the same in India. Now that means a staggered approach - now very similar to the worldwide launch that they had on 11th July that chocked the apple servers globally.
Another intestering note on the same - where did the million iPhones go ?
From Dev's post - 600,000 in the United States. followed by 70,000 in Japan. Now, Japan is a country where people are used to having phones that are far more advanced than the iPhone, they use their phones on a regular basis to watch live TV, pay for various shopping bills and the likes - and there was much apprehension on how the iPhone would be selling into a market like that?
PS: Did you notice that the largest market bought 8 times more phones than the second largerst - that is over a 100,000 more than all the other countries put together!
PSS : The Second wave is on 22nd August GLOBALLY. Correcting my previous statement, this would mean another clog at Apple Servers, unless they have geared up themselves since July 13th !
Monday, August 4, 2008
Apple and Steve Jobs. And some cancer.
Its more than just a well known fact that Steve Jobs IS Apple.right from when he and Woz founded Apple in their garage back in 1976, on April Fools day, Jobs has been the face of Apple.
When he was ousted 1985, the company started its nose-dive ( though the dive started much before he left ) and was on the verge of bankruptcy during the mid 90s. Apple picked up, once NeXt ( another Jobs venture) and brought back Jobs. After he took over as CEO, and with the launch of the iMacs, history assured a place for Apple.
Now, this is not meant as a history of Apple, or a dissertation on Steve Job's "Greatest Second Act in the history of business " - but at the striking pattern here. Is Apple Inc. tied to Steve Jobs? Will Jobs be able to distance himself from the company the way Bill Gates has done with Microsoft? Rumors of his cancer has surfaced and plagued Apple image, horrendously.
There are two questions that i want to ask here -
1)Why is Jobs the face of Apple?
For any company to grow up, you cannot just pin down success to any one reason, let alone a person! there are many complex factors and people. Why Steve Jobs? Why not Jonathan Ive? For all we know, he designed the iMac, the iPod and now the iPhone. So what is that drives Apple to fall back on Jobs? True he might just be the best salesman apple has or he might be the most important businessman of 2007 - but how can an entire $25 Billion work completely around one man?
Left, Dabaghian/Reuters; right, Avelar/Bloomberg New
2) Secondly and more importantly, Why on earth should he publish his medical reports? When Andy Grove was ill he informed the board at Intel, but not the investors ! he later published it in his, claiming that his illness in no way affected his running of the company . What indeed is a marvel is the fact that Wall Street is driven by the image of a once chubby Jobs looking lean and lanky.
I am for one who believes that my sperm count is my issue and not exactly international news. for the same reason, i am utterly speechless that Apple's stock seems to be proportional to Steve's "weight".
When he was ousted 1985, the company started its nose-dive ( though the dive started much before he left ) and was on the verge of bankruptcy during the mid 90s. Apple picked up, once NeXt ( another Jobs venture) and brought back Jobs. After he took over as CEO, and with the launch of the iMacs, history assured a place for Apple.
Now, this is not meant as a history of Apple, or a dissertation on Steve Job's "Greatest Second Act in the history of business " - but at the striking pattern here. Is Apple Inc. tied to Steve Jobs? Will Jobs be able to distance himself from the company the way Bill Gates has done with Microsoft? Rumors of his cancer has surfaced and plagued Apple image, horrendously.
There are two questions that i want to ask here -
1)Why is Jobs the face of Apple?
For any company to grow up, you cannot just pin down success to any one reason, let alone a person! there are many complex factors and people. Why Steve Jobs? Why not Jonathan Ive? For all we know, he designed the iMac, the iPod and now the iPhone. So what is that drives Apple to fall back on Jobs? True he might just be the best salesman apple has or he might be the most important businessman of 2007 - but how can an entire $25 Billion work completely around one man?
Left, Dabaghian/Reuters; right, Avelar/Bloomberg New
2) Secondly and more importantly, Why on earth should he publish his medical reports? When Andy Grove was ill he informed the board at Intel, but not the investors ! he later published it in his, claiming that his illness in no way affected his running of the company . What indeed is a marvel is the fact that Wall Street is driven by the image of a once chubby Jobs looking lean and lanky.I am for one who believes that my sperm count is my issue and not exactly international news. for the same reason, i am utterly speechless that Apple's stock seems to be proportional to Steve's "weight".
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