Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts

Monday, April 15, 2013

Can Amazon’s Kindle Fire turn the heat on Apple’s iPad?

The iPad has spawned an array of wannabes and clones but Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet is being hailed as a truly disruptive product that could shake Apple’s hold on the tablet market.

A100 years from now, when a Pulitzer prize winning author of that generation pens down a book on the consumerisation of IT, he’ll probably pick up year 2011 as the starting point. In more ways than one, 2011 will be remembered as the year that kick-started a train of events, which transformed the technology landscape once and for all. First it was Hewlett Packard (the world’s largest IT corporation) announcing its exit from the PC business. Then Steve Jobs, the world’s most definitive authority on technology passed away. In between the Jeff Bezos led Amazon.com jumped on to the IT (hardware) bandwagon — a domain that had hitherto been left largely untested by the online mega-store.

And on the topic of Amazon’s IT ambition, despite its sensational and bold gambit in the arena of consumer technology, it calls for an audacious leap of faith to even imagine that there can even be a formidable competitor to Apple. Legions of techno geeks will avow that there is none to match Apple when it comes to integrating hardware and software so brilliantly. All the same, none can fail to observe how a single product — the Kindle Fire — launched by Amazon recently, gives this company the potential to achieve a feat that in every way matches Apple’s technology and design prowess.

But before dwelling on how the launch of Kindle Fire can help Amazon grab an enviable standing in the IT industry, it would be pertinent to go over how the company has been faring under founder and CEO Jeff Bezos over the past few years.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
 
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Sizzling Apples, Burning Berries!

With RIM’s Traditional Stronghold Under Attack, Balsillie is hoping to do a Counter Attack in the Tablet Space. But it would be much more Important to Ensure that the Smartphone Battle is not Lost Forever

Apart from his role as Co-CEO, RIM, Jim Balsillie is well known for his repeated unsuccessful attempts to buy a hockey team and take it to his home state of Ontario, Canada. For those who know him, he is the ultimate fitness expert and sports enthusiast. But one would certainly doubt whether Balsillie would count apples as one of his favourite things, given the tit-for-tat slanging match that Jim is into with none other than Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

The match is now more than a mere one off altercation. First we give a quick snapshot of the prologue. Simmering sentiments were spurred among all competitors when Apple was in the midst of Antennagate, the negative backlash linked to iPhone reception problems. Even that time, Apple had chosen to make a generic statement to the effect that smartphones from RIM, Samsung and HTC had similar problems with attenuation and signal loss; a claim to which RIM reacted vociferously. The RIM standoff really started with the Apple quarterly result announcement, where Steve Jobs bragged that RIM would not be able to catch up with Apple any time soon. He got those bragging rights when Apple posted sales of 14.1 million iPhones in the quarter compared to 12.4 million Blackberrys (IDC). Also, on Job’s firing line was the Blackberry OS (RIM plans to upgrade to Blackberry 6 and also bring in the QNX for its upcoming Playbook tablet) as well as the concept of small 7 tablets (like Playbook); in fact he called the latter tweeners! Jobs said that with 3,00,000 applications on Apple’s app store, RIM had a “huge mountain to climb”. Balsillie has responded by taking potshots at antennagate, Adobe Flash (which Apple does not support), reiterated his confidence that 7” tablets will succeed and his belief that Apple’s app centric approach is no longer relevant, since all apps that developers really need are available online. He summed it up by saying that customers were now “getting tired of being told by Apple what to think” and dividing the world into people living within and beyond Apple’s “distortion field”. If recent reports are to be believed, Apples ‘field’ has extended to some of RIM’s enterprise sales personnel, who joined Jobs’ forces recently.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Nokia tries N9 ahead of Windows

Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop unveiled a new smartphone on Tuesday that uses software the firm plans to ditch, a move analysts said would probably condemn the device to obscurity. The model — Nokia's first and last to use MeeGo —can be navigated by a single finger swipe and comes in black, cyan and magenta colours in a polycarbonate design.

Once the undisputed leader in hand phones, Nokia has rapidly lost ground in the smartphone market to Apple's iPhone and Google's Android devices, and at the low end of the market to Asian rivals such as China's ZTE and India's Micromax.

An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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