The tone for 2011 in high technology was set in early January: fast, bold, aggressive action and sweeping management changes. In the first four months of the year, high-tech vendors moved quickly and decisively to seize opportunities in established sectors (smartphones, virtualization, data backup and disaster recovery) and emerging markets (cloud computing, tablet devices and unified storage management). As 2011 unfolds, it’s apparent that high-technology vendors are willing to shift strategies and shed executives in order to stay one step ahead of — or keep pace with — competitors.
2010 saw the iPad laying of the foundation stone for change in popular computing. It was a make-or-break year for change. Had the iPad failed to impress, there might have no prospect for raising the issue of Post-PC ism for years.
The iPad succeeded though and it has won hearts around the world and across all kinds of cultural barriers. Like visual humour, the iPad leaps over cultural boundaries of language and interpretation of meaning. I have seen the very old and the very young cleave to this device with a passion - they just don't want to give it back after a 30 minute play/tryout. So I am satisfied that, whether the iPad dominates the new tablet market or not, the world of computing has changed.
imo, 2011 is the year when this change in attitude and expectations begins to gain full traction. When iOS 5 and Mac OSX Lion are released, we will see the fruits of the cross-fertilisation of ideas. We will see the results of feedback and feedforward working in tandem. We will see a readiness in companies (starting with Apple as change agent) simply to implement ideas in either platform because they work and make computing life easier, better or just more fun.
The iPad and its imitators may become, more or less, a truer form of the 'computer for the rest of us'. It is certainly an affordable way forward and it is evolving so very fast.
Gosh! It took you what, a year, to decide to write to Jobs?
And what exactly are your credentials for saying what you say?
Are you a part of the world's best-loved brand?
Have you created the largest tech company in the world?
Were you weeping into your hot milk as you wrote this blast of crybaby nonsense?
I think it is also important to raise awareness regarding Apple's scams and abuses related to mobile application and digital entertainment markets, their strategy to destroy the web by pushing HTML5 (which they do not truly support and implement themselves) in order to kick users out of the web into Apple's walled garden taxed at 30% is outrageous! Apple's ban of Flash is not acceptable, turning consumers and developers into collateral damages in a corporate war is not acceptable.
I invite you to read my email sent to Steve Jobs this week in response to his "Thought on Flash" posted on Apple's website last year:
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2011: The Year to Date, Part 1
Posted by: Laura DiDio May 2, 2011 12:14 PMThe tone for 2011 in high technology was set in early January: fast, bold, aggressive action and sweeping management changes. In the first four months of the year, high-tech vendors moved quickly and decisively to seize opportunities in established sectors (smartphones, virtualization, data backup and disaster recovery) and emerging markets (cloud computing, tablet devices and unified storage management). As 2011 unfolds, it’s apparent that high-technology vendors are willing to shift strategies and shed executives in order to stay one step ahead of — or keep pace with — competitors.
The iPad succeeded though and it has won hearts around the world and across all kinds of cultural barriers. Like visual humour, the iPad leaps over cultural boundaries of language and interpretation of meaning. I have seen the very old and the very young cleave to this device with a passion - they just don't want to give it back after a 30 minute play/tryout. So I am satisfied that, whether the iPad dominates the new tablet market or not, the world of computing has changed.
imo, 2011 is the year when this change in attitude and expectations begins to gain full traction. When iOS 5 and Mac OSX Lion are released, we will see the fruits of the cross-fertilisation of ideas. We will see the results of feedback and feedforward working in tandem. We will see a readiness in companies (starting with Apple as change agent) simply to implement ideas in either platform because they work and make computing life easier, better or just more fun.
The iPad and its imitators may become, more or less, a truer form of the 'computer for the rest of us'. It is certainly an affordable way forward and it is evolving so very fast.
And what exactly are your credentials for saying what you say?
Are you a part of the world's best-loved brand?
Have you created the largest tech company in the world?
Were you weeping into your hot milk as you wrote this blast of crybaby nonsense?
Pray, do tell.
I invite you to read my email sent to Steve Jobs this week in response to his "Thought on Flash" posted on Apple's website last year:
http://tinyurl.com/65w3bop