We manage the company at the top and just have one P&L, and don’t worry about the iCloud team making money and the Siri team making money. We want to have a great customer experience, and we think measuring all these things at that level would never achieve such a thing.
Apple CEO Tim Cook on their one P&L
Apple devices continue to crush Android devices in terms of commerce engagement. Android users just don’t seem to do all that much with their gadgets.
No surprise there.
Apple’s focus remains on The Turn, the process by which they make the ordinary extraordinary.
The Turn… excellent way to look at it.
… everyone should be willing to defend their ideas and work from honest criticism. If a person has no ideas to defend, they shouldn’t be at the meeting.
Amen.
Focus has to permeate every aspect of a company, including meetings.
Double amen.
AirPlay mirroring requires an Apple TV ($100), but lets you perform a real miracle: With one click, you can send whatever is on your Mac’s screen — sound and picture — to your TV. Wirelessly.
I’m excited to see this tech in collaborative environments such as classrooms where a professor can project his computer without wires and can quickly share the screen of students or others.
One of the best parts about this is that it integrates with your lock screen. Thus, apps like Starbucks will set off an alert when you get near a location, so you’ll remember to use your card or coupon.
Not great in NYC where Starbucks are located nearly every other block.
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If we consider all the devices Apple sells, the whittling becomes even more significant and the multiple drops to below 2. Seen this way, Post-PC devices wiped out of leverage faster than it was originally built. They not only reversed the advantage but cancelled it altogether.
Telling.
Patent wrangling between technology companies has become both pathological and pointless. It is also a gross abuse of intellectual property law that uses the courts as tools for gaining competitive advantage.
Some day… maybe… there will be patent reforms.
If Jobs was Apple’s lead singer–the diva that made the tech industry (and the tech media) swoon and occasionally recoil while cranking out incredible art–Cook is its bass player: steady, essential, and comfortable in the spotlight without the need to be the center of attention.
Nicely played, if you will.
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