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Monday, January 16, 2012

Has Your iPad Replaced Your Laptop? Yea, Me Either, But Soon Perhaps...

Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad" @ 02:00 PM

http://www.appleinsider.com/article...ir_laptop_.html

"More than one in ten iPad owning business professionals have indicated that Apple's touchscreen tablet has become their portable device of choice, completely replacing their laptop."

It's getting closer and closer for me all the time, mostly due to the improvements in the work space where I spend most of my day, but also in the fact that more and more content is available for the iPad (i.e. mobile flash sites switching to HTML5). And in meetings it has pretty much replaced pen and paper for me. It is just so easy to use in my opinion. What are your thoughts?


Friday, July 15, 2011

Print Ads From Apple About Enterprise, Has The World Stopped Spinning?

Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad" @ 07:30 PM

http://www.edibleapple.com/apples-l...+(Edible+Apple)

"Apple has historically never been that invested in the enterprise, but the advent of the iPhone changed all that. Slowly but surely, and similar to Apple's interest in gaming, Apple has embraced the enterprise with increased vigor."

Interesting to say the least, and I don't recall ever seeing an Apple ad geared towards businesses, but I could just be very tunnel visioned. They usually don't gear their advertising to businesses but I'm glad they are, as AT&T says, four out of every ten iPhones are sold to enterprise users.


Thursday, March 4, 2010

Apple Gears up for Enterprise

Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple News" @ 12:00 PM

http://blogs.computerworld.com/1567...e+Intelligence)

"Apple is a consumer-focused company first and foremost. They have enterprise sales departments but the bulk of their marketing and support effort go into consumer sales."

Image Credit: www.maconlysource.com

Now that Apple filed paperwork to trademark "Joint Venture" they may be rethinking all of this and heading into the enterprise market. The paperwork they filed described the trademark as including "Maintenance, installation and repair of computer hardware, computer peripherals, computer networks, and consumer electronic devices; information, advisory and consultancy services." Sounds business oriented to me, and also it seems like it is about time they focus on this aspect of the computer market, or at least devote more resources than they have in the past. What are your thoughts? How do you think Apple is going to do in this part of the market?


Thursday, July 2, 2009

Steve Jobs Isn't A Role Model

Posted by Vincent Ferrari in "Apple Talk" @ 09:00 AM

http://cultofmac.com/fast-company-c...ole-model/12497

"Fast Company co-founder Bill Taylor has sparked a bit of a controversy on his Harvard Business Review blog by suggesting the heretical idea that — shock! — Steve Jobs might not be the best role model for other business leaders. Apparently, it’s deeply offensive to suggest that what makes Steve great are the exact qualities that typically make for bad management at most companies. He micro-manages every aspect of Apple, has been known to fire people with minimal cause, and perennially runs the risk of out-shining his company — which is particularly problematic when his health problems continue to cast into doubt his long-term prospects as CEO."

And yet Apple continues to thrive, proving yet again that when you run a company (instead of blathering on in a blog or newspaper about those who do) you follow your guts not some pre-defined formula for success. That's why Steve Jobs is the success he is and Apple is the company it is. In the article, numerous times, Bill Taylor mentions the saying "Trust the art, not the artist." I say it's the artist that makes the painting, not the theory of the painting that makes the artist.

The truth is, there's nothing about Bill Taylor that equates to real-world business experience. Unlike Jobs, Taylor has never been a CEO of a company. In his own bio he calls himself a writer, speaker, and entrepreneur, although except for founding the massive flop Fast Company which, as far as I know, no one outside of Silicon Valley reads at all, none of his business ventures have brought him any great successes otherwise he wouldn't be blogging for a publication.

He may be a successful writer, but he's not been a successful CEO, proving that he's probably spent entirely too much time talking about business theory and not enough time actually doing business. At least he's good at linkbaiting, though.

Jobs succeeds because he broke the mold. That's the whole point. He does things his way. Anyone who claims to know business should understand that. Maybe that's the way business should be done, not trying to see how to fit school training into the real world.


Monday, March 23, 2009

Mac for Business? You Bet!

Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple News" @ 02:00 PM

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2...ith-seminar.ars

"A free seminar from Apple extols the virtues of using Macs for business needs. Titled "Your business on a Mac. A better bottom line," the seminars are being held around the US starting this week."

The seminars are geared to show you how to integrate a Mac into your business, and add to your productivity. The seminars also discuss how to integrate Macs with existing Windows applications and networks. The seminars area about an hour long, and highlight iWork '09 and iLife '09. Currently the seminars are scheduled for only 11 states (Alabama, Arizona, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin), but you can request a seminar for your area at the Apple site. Apple also has a variety of white papers on the subject that you can download.


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