First Palm, then RIM and then Facebook?

You might ask what Facebook has to do with Palm or RIM. But at the end of the article you might get the point.

Palm was in the 90th the rising star. They came out in 1993 with their palm pilot and their innovative Palm OS. One of the best OS at its time. Palm in the time did reinvent hand writing rather than the palm pilot needs to learn the users writing, the user had to learn how to write as the palm can understand. At the time all others tried to build complex software for computers to understand different hand writing styles. It took me maybe three days to learn how to write on the palm and then it was just easy.




Palm eventually became big and hired a lot of people. Every year came a new model out, better faster etc, even with a color screen.
Palm allowed other companies to write application for the palm and users could choose from hundreds of extra apps to install on the palm.
The concept was similar to Apple. Palm developed hardware and OS.

Palm was on top and the leading company for handhelds, but their biggest problem was, that they had only one product. Instead of working on new products, besides handled, they focused too much on the handheld competition and lost the race. Palm is today a small devision of HP and only delivers the webOS which is Palm's latest OS based on Linux.


RIM (founded 1984) a Canadian company started in 1998 to sell Inter@ctive pager 950 which had two way paging and wireless e-mail network. About the size of a bar of soap, this device competed against the SkyTel two-way paging network developed by Motorola.

The big break through came 1999.
In 1999, the Blackberry wireless e-mail device, the BlackBerry 5790, was revealed along with the Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) for Microsoft Exchange. The BES provided the conduit between the wireless handheld and the corporate Exchange mailbox, with contacts and calendar, putting current business e-mail in the hands of the mobile worker. New content updated in the mailbox was “pushed” out to the BlackBerry keeping the worker up-to-date. The first fully integrated phones were shipped with the 6200 series after the 5810 and 5820 provided phone functionality only with an external headset. RIM also expanded its network coverage from GSM to add CDMA.

At this time cooperations started to buy cellphones from RIM because they could not only send and receive emails but were easily to connect to Microsoft Exchange and the data transfer were encrypted. RIM grew and grew. RIM was second largest smartphone company in the world in 2008




In 2010 RIM did fall back to 3rd place.






RIM had even a much higher market share in companies. But many companies did start to switch Apple iPhone. Our company had only blackberries for our sales people in 2008, today our salesforce is using only iPhones. We are not big, but we have hundred or so sales people.
RIM lost their momentum because they tried to fight against Google Android and Apple iPhone. RIM announced that they will lay off 2000 people. They should have extend their business to other types of products, when they were still the rising star. Now it is almost too late and RIM can be soon history. A much bigger fall is actually Nokia. Once unreachable number one cell phone company with over 50% market share, did fall down to just 20% in 2011.

Let us look at Apple. Apple was almost bankrupt when Steve Jobs came back in 1997. He did the right thing, he throw all kind of products away and concentrated on building just a few but great products (similar like Palm and RIM), However when the success started for Apple again, he did not stop. Apple did build new products. The trick behind was, that they took time to make the products good.
They started with a revolutionary iMac.



Just one form factor. It got successful. In the meantime they started to work on the iPod but did not release the iPod before it was ready for the world in 2001. And then a few years later the next product came and so on. But different than other hardware companies, they did not just throw products on the market, they took time to build them.

Apple could have just stopped with the iMac and build every year new models and some more sizes. But they did not. They have one product with max two versions. As soon the product does get very successful they bring out something new.

This Apple concept is genius. And any company should learn from it.
Imagine Apple would have stayed just with the iMac or maybe just with the iPod? Apple would be a small company today.

Back to my headline. What does this has to do with Facebook?

Everything.

Facebook did grow tremendous in the last 3 years and grew from 20 million to 700 million users. This is amazing. However Facebook has still one flaw which will kill Facebook (I think FB is already dead, they just don't know it). FB has only one product. The product which gave them success. But instead of building new products they just stay with their social network. Google+ will not kill Facebook but FB will kill themselves. Everything they do is around their FB, new features, layout changes or like recently a business Facebook. Google is smarter, they extend their business with new products. If nobody searches anymore on google, then they have still their ad servers for other companies to serve ads, and they have Android etc.

Bottom line is, that having just one product is great to get big, because you can concentrate just on this and make it perfect and it is easier for marketing. However when a company reaches the point, where they are market leader then they need to have already a different product to redefine their market niche. Jack Welsh once said, it is easier to get to number 1 than staying to be number 1.

Why is it bad to have just one product? First of all other can learn from your product and after a while they can make it better, because they saw the mistakes, the things which are missing and have more fresh ideas. Second, consumers needs are changing. Social is big today, but maybe not anymore tomorrow. I think social will not go away, however there will be no need in the future for one big social network because it will be a part of our online life. It is like the internet. AOL got big, because we needed an access point for Internet and there was AOL which offered it for us, but then when Internet got big, AOL was not anymore needed we suddenly could go to the internet without AOL.

Palm, RIM, Nokia, myspace, AOL were once the stars, now their light is out of fading.

And all ends that Palm, RIM and Facebook are so different but similar.


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Where is Apple going?

Shares in iPad maker up more than 3% in after-hours trading after the a financial report from Apple.

Surging demand for iPhones and Macintosh computers sparked a 94.8% jump in earnings for the quarter ending in March, Apple reported Wednesday. The news sent Apple shares up more than 3% in after-hours trading.

The Cupertino, California-based reported net income of $6.0 billion, or $6.40 per share, on $24.7 billion in sales compared to net income of $3.3 billion or $3.33 per share, on $13.5 billion in sales during the year-ago period.

Apple reported gross margins for its fiscal second quarter of 41.4%, compared to the 39% analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had been expecting.

Those results easily surpassed of expectations of the consensus earnings per share estimate of $5.35 per share on $23.4 billion in sales compiled by Thomson Reuters.

While iPhone and Macintosh sales were strong, sales of iPods and iPads fell short of some analyst’s expectations (see “March Quarter iPhone Sales Up 113% Year-Over-Year; iPod Sales Fall 17%; 4.69 Million iPads Sold” for more detail). In the quarter, the company sold 18.7 million iPhones, 4.7 million iPads, 3.8 million Macs and 9.0 iPods.

“With quarterly revenue growth of 83 percent and profit growth of 95 percent, we’re firing on all cylinders,” Apple Chief Steve Jobs said in a statement. “We will continue to innovate throughout the remainder of the year.”






A company which was almost bankrupt in 1998 when Steve Jobs returned to Apple. Today Apple is one of the biggest companies In revenue and is number 1 company as phone manufacture in revenue (Nokia is number 2).

Stock did in 15 year 80 fold. Every quarter Apple is growing more than predicted and stronger than any competition. Microsoft seems now to be a small company in comparison to Apple.






Apple is on steroids since the iPhone and 50% of the revenue comes from the iPhone.
Will Apple ever stop, or just going on like this for the next 10 years. It gets scary. In 2015 will be more mobile devices on the market than PCs. And if Apple keeps going then there might be not much choices other than Apple.

But if a Compnay gets a certain size it might get like an elephant. New innovation will take longer, the quality of the products will go down by releasing too fast new products. The prices will go up when a company has a monopole. The consumer will eventually get frustrated and the company will break down.

Right now is no real competition for Apple on the mobile market. Google has only an OS and the smart phone OS strategy seems not to pay out. Too many versions of Androids are on the market and too many different types of smart phones are using Android. As a result, developers have a hard time to produce qualitative good software. It might run on one device perfect but sucks on the other. The consumer gets which each phone a slightly different OS.

Microsoft has a better OS strategy but no momentum yet. RIM builds the hardware and the OS but is too much concentrated on business than consumer.

How can anybody stop Apple? Do we really want to see in office only Mac computers? Do we want to see companies like Dell, Nokia etc to file bankrupt?

I don't think so, as much as I like Apple I prefer more diversity.

I believe, Apple will stop themselves. In 2013, Apple will have so much market share in mobile, that the regulators will force Apple to split into three companies. Apple hardware, Apple OS and Apple services.

Apple would need to offer there OS for other hardware companies and Apple service must be available for anybody if they run Apple OS or not.

When if comes to this point Apple will lose a lot of market share for hardware and Apple Service will be chased by Amazon and Google.

I don't think that Apple will be in 5 years the same company we know today.

The past showed that going straight up will eventual come down, fast or slowly. This is a physical law. It is not possible only to run on zero gravity. Even in space comes the point of some gravity and if there is no fuel left, then good bye.

I admire Apple and especially Steve Jobs. He might be not the best employer but he is a genius how he made the company big. Sure thousand of people are involved, but at the end he made the right decisions.

Jack Welch once said. "it is harder to keep being Number 1 than being Number 2 and try to get to Number 1". Apple need to redefine themselves very fast to get down from the King chair if they want keep going.
Anybody who has Apple Stock or does want to buy should consider to exit at $520 (today it is $350).

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Where is Windows in the mobile world?

Despite mounting competition from other operating systems (OSs), Apple's iOS will continue to own the majority of the worldwide media tablet through 2015, according to Gartner. Due to the success of Apple's iPad, iOS will account for 69 percent of media tablet OSs in 2011, and represent 47 percent of the media tablet market in 2015.
The new released numbers from Gartner are interesting in terms of Windows and RIM.

When you look at the report, then you might see that neither Microsoft nor RIM is listed. Both OS are strong in businesses. Microsoft for PCs and RIM for smart phones and email. According to other reports, more tablets will be sold than PCs in 2105 and notebooks might be totally off the radar. If Gartner is correct than more companies and consumer will use in 2015 Android or iOS.

This is hard to believe, especially that Microsoft office is still the market leader for writing, calculation, and presentation. RIM is market leader for secure mobile email and first choice in the government.

Clearly the trend is to mobile and small smart computers. Surely we will have in a few years smart phone like the Motorola Atrix which serves a phone on the road and as a computer at work.  But i cant imagine that Microsoft will not play a big role. MS will not license their office package to Apple, Google or other OS platforms. Therefore i believe the Gartner report is not accurate. It is based on OS which are now available for mobile tablets. This is surely a mistake not to consider RIM or Windows. However Gartner  has a lot of influence. And companies will make their decision on Gardner results which means it will be harder for MS and RIM to get into the mobile tablet market.

My predictions will be slightly different than from Gartner.

Correction:
QNX is RIM. Please count RIM and QNX together as one OS.

Apple, Google or Amazon? I think Microsoft

Google is trying hard with fighting on many fronts which helped Amazon to build something like the underdog empire. Both Amazon and Google are under the top 5 could companies. But Google is so busy with fighting against Microsoft, Apple and Facebook that they totally forgot about Amazon.
Amazon took the chance and did start to offer video streaming, then an android app store and lately the amazon files, document and music cloud.
All three services are based on two things amazon is very good in. Cloud computing and e-commerce.
Google is good in cloud but awful in e-commerce. Apple is good in e-commerce but has yet to get known as a cloud company.

Google is of course big enough to be the GE of the Internet but it is a dangerous and difficult way to get there. This can be only accomplished with a strong leadership and clear defined departments.

Amazon on the other hand had an amazing year behind with a 40% growth and does the right things. Sitting calm in their chair, monitoring want is going on in the world and take two different worlds and make the best of both. Example the Amazon app store:
Google failed to have a store which is in good control and therefore allowed to have a lot of apps floating around which are beyond of good and even harmful for your mobile device. And then the store itself is and was horrible to find apps.

Amazon decided to have their own developer base and to be in charge for approving applications. Similar to Apple but not so strict as Apple.

Another example is the music cloud:
Google is talking since years to build something like this, but Amazon did it without any fanfare before.

Amazon might soon have their own mobile devices (besides the kindle) and if they offer their own OS then Amazon could be a big player in mobile.



The whole world is now following Amazon, since they released in a really short period of time three services.

This is mow the best time for Microsoft. Microsoft could let Apple, Amazon and Google fight (and of course RIM as an active audience) and slowly without noise build their own little mobile empire.

The chances are good for Microsoft. Apple has surly the best looking devices and an awesome User Experience. But their OS is only available on Apple products. Which could be a problem for enterprises. As a company you have to get many times 3 different proposals, but with Apple all three proposal would be very similar, because retailers don't have a lot of margin and choices.

Google Android is free but there are too many versions on the market (which Google wants to change) and no MS office product available. IT does not want to support multiple versions of OS neither use a device which has not a good office integration.

RIM might be a good choice for companies but their products are just not keeping up, even if RIM will soon offer their OS with ability to run Amdroid apps.

Amazon knows cloud but has no OS nor hardware for businesses.

But Microsoft could be the winner. They just signed a contract with Nokia, number 1 phone manufacture. And MS is already in most companies present with their office products. In the next three years notebooks will be replaced by smart phones or tablets. MS needs to catch up otherwise there office products will be past.

But because office is big in companies the chance is good for MS to be number two mobile OS in 2015. Microsoft is with Azure (like Amazon and Google) one of the biggest cloud companies and with office 360 there products are available in the cloud like google documents, just more sophisticated.

And then is the knowledge MS could build over the last 25 years. The knowledge to build an OS which manufactures can use for their devices and still keep the OS the same.

As hard it sounds for Google, but at the end MS can win over Google in mobile market if Google does fast understand how to offer a solid OS with good service and support for manufactures and consumers.

But till either Google does grow up or MS runs the mobile and cloud world, till then i will watch Amazon.

BTW
Everybody is seeing Amazon a big competition for Apple. Somehow I believe they don't compete but they complete each other. Amazon is even not trying. Their movie streaming is not working on Apple mobile Safari, neither the music cloud. If they would want to compete, they would try harder.

We consumers are building active or inactive our own infrastructure and once in one it is hard to switch. If you did build all around iTunes and iOS then moving to something else is too painful.

Amazon is trying to get the "homeless" and disorientated android world. Android might be a good platform but nobody did try to get order into the chaos till Amazon came. They are more a competition to Google right now than to Apple.

If you use Apple, yo stay with Apple. If you believe in Android, then there is now somebody who understands you both, user and developer.


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Why Google Android might fall down and deep

Android is on over 100 different devices and the number is growing. Android is already third biggest mobile OS in the US (22%, iOS and Blackberry both 27%) but the growth of Android can soon change when when hardware companies are stopping to sell their products with Android.
Google has the idea to offer the OS free and tries to get revenue later through advertisement in when millions of people are using Android. This seems to be a great approach. Make things cheap till they are viral and then when everybody is relying on it get a lot of money through advertisement in.
But exactly this approach can break Androids neck.
This economic benefit is offset by what appears to be a significant problem: When you separate revenue from a product, customer satisfaction will suffers.

For Android this has translated to Google creating products and then modifying them largely in a vacuum because the OEMs aren’t contributing to revenue and therefore don’t get any real vote. The attitude appears to be that if you are getting something for free then you should be happy with what you get.

This pulls the actual solution provider out of the decision process and that is why the Android products generally feel unfinished when compared to their iPhone, RIM (Research In Motion) and even Windows Phone counterparts, and things don’t seem to be improving very quickly.

This would not be the biggest problem if the service providers or hardware manufactures would have a focus on software development. Androids is open source and the OEMs could develop and optimize Android. But this drives to the next problem.

Staffing:
Android and it's Linux base is usually attracting more younger, inexperienced, unprofessional and arrogant developers who are brilliant with small ideas but generally never worked in an enterprise environment where small bugs can be the biggest problem. They never build commercial software which millions of people are going to use. They don't have yet worked where delivering on time is very important.

It is very hard for them to find developers who understand android and can fit into enterprise environment.

The next big problem is Google.

Google itself:
Google is a great company and at least 10 of my friends are working at Google and i am maybe jealous. All my friends working at google are under 25 and I am over 40, I applied at google but I am too old for them.
When i talk to my friends i hear many times how great Google is and how young everybody is, and this is a problem. And as soon a person at Google gets mature, the person starts a new company or goes to competition like Facebook.
I worked with many people in my life, and I worked with great people but the best I ever worked with were the people who worked already 10 years in corporations not the young 23 old high profile with Major from the MIT. It does not matter how brilliant a person is, if the person has no experience or nobody with experience supporting the person, then the results are most likely half as good.

As a result, great new software will be created but with more problems than holes in a Swiss cheese.
Some of the problems that Google is having aren’t unusual. Microsoft had similar staffing issues when they were ramping up to handle enterprise sales in the 90s, and IE6 problems were related to having a free product without a good alternative to revenue for measuring quality. This means that these issues can be corrected, but if one of the primary problems is one of communication, then Google may not yet fully grasp how bad they are. This is good news for challenging products like Windows Phone 7 and bad news for Chrome OS, which will likely have the same issues but be running against Windows 7 and not the mess of aftermarket OSs that Android came out against.
Therefore Android will slide soon down and Chrome OS might never be launched. When a company has not the correct staffing then the consumer will be the loser.
Not working with your partners together and to tell them just take it or leave it, does not work when the product is far from perfect. If google does not try to work with their OEM partners together and keeps this arrogance then Google does not understand how serious the problem is. Android is not a search engine which does not rely on hardware producers. Android raises and falls with the OEM partners.
If the Google management really believes that Chrome will replace 60% of enterprise OS then Google lost the sense of reality.


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Windows 7 mobile - better than expected - Android can't keep up

Microsoft did wait long and almost missed the chance to come with the right mobile OS. Windows 6.5 was ugly too much based on Windows XP and just not working well.
Windows 7 mobile OS is awesome it does not only look totally different but Microsoft seems to understand now that mobile devices are different than PCs. Only a few weeks out and already over 3000 applications available. Microsoft has finally, like Apple, a marketplace for their apps (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/apps/default.aspx) but to see all available apps, you need either a Windows 7 phone or Zune software con your PC. It is similar concept like iTunes from Apple.



Before Apple did start the app store it was hard to find software for your phone. A windows phone owner had to go through tons of websites to find the software he was looking for. Now with the windows marketplace ( at the end a thanks to Apple) almost all Windows phone software is available in one place even for Windows 6.5. Mac users are out of luck, there is no Zune software for MacOsX. The only way to have Zune is to use parallels or bootcamp. iTunes is available for Windows and MacOsX but has only apps for Apple phones.

The new Windows OS is a perfect consumer OS, easy to use and a beauty to look at it.







The commercials are not lying when they say you spend less on your phone when doing more with your phone. Chris Hall has a very detailed review of the OS. Take your time to read it.


But the other good part of the phone is, that it works from the start for big companies as company phone. Build in office, outlook, exchange, everything an IT operation team is dreaming of. The browser is of course Internet Explorer mobile which does not support HTML5 (yet) but enterprise solutions like Dynamics CRM or SharePoint seem to work well on windows 7 mobile (Microsoft Corp. will integrate its Dynamics CRM cloud strategy with the Windows Phone 7. According to a blog post by the The VAR Guy, Cindy Bates, Microsoft's VP of U.S. Small and Medium Business & Distribution, previewed some forthcoming CRM Online 2011 enhancements, including integration with Windows Phone 7, at the recent SMB Nation conference in Las Vegas. The VAR Guy said the strategy is an attempt by Microsoft to compete more aggressively against Salesforce.com and NetSuite)

I hear from a lot of people that they do prefer to get Windows Phone over an Android phone and i even don't here anybody talking about Blackberry anymore.

Microsoft came late but will be soon number three in the OS market, especially in enterprises and consumer. None of the other competitors can offer both. Android and Apple are clearly only for consumers despite what they are saying, and RIM is everything but a consumer phone.

Kids watch out, your mobile 7 phone does integrate with your best XBox games.


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Microsoft Mobile 7 phones - all what iPhone and Android have and more

Microsoft released new mobile platform. According to Microsoft their last attempt in mobile. Microsoft will not take another try when it fails, but I believe the new OS will be a very strong contester.
Microsoft worked many years on their new mobile platform and the result is Windows Phone 7, which will make its debut in some European markets on Oct. 21 and in the U.S. Nov. 8. The phone uses an elegant operating system that is very different from the current trend toward app-focused phones. Instead it provides active and configurable interface elements called tiles that update on the fly with real information, allowing users to place the tiles that interest them most where they want on their Start screen. Facebook photos, music and contacts are pulled into the phone and distributed appropriately across Hubs. It also brings together many of Microsoft’s popular offerings from other platforms, including Xbox, Zune, Office and Bing and Sharepoint.





The new phone is an important step for Microsoft in four ways. To begin, it is a completely fresh start for Microsoft in smartphones. Second, it represents a new approach from Microsoft toward integrating products and services from across the company into the phone to create a richer experience and greater productivity. Hence the presence of Office, Zune and Xbox LIVE and their integration within the Hub model. Third the new phone approach is critical to Microsoft’s efforts to make new gains in the huge smartphone market, which despite the success of the iPhone and Android is still relatively untapped globally.



But finally Microsoft does understand that their PC market share is over 95% and a big advantage in comparison to Android and iPhone.
A lot of consumers might switch to Microsoft, if Mobile 7 does seamlessly connect and integrate with Windows OS on PC and at the same time offers same functions for social and games like the competition.

I am only using the iPhone because all my other hardware is Apple and my media hub is iTunes. If I would not be so much relying on Apple I might have switch to an Android phone. Pretty sure a lot of potential Android users would switch to a Microsoft phone if the phone has similar service but better integration to their OS, it should be a no-brainer.

Then we have the business world, the new Mobile 7 phones will be a big threat for Blackberry if a seamless integration to Exchange works. Plus many companies are using Enterprise solutions from Microsoft. To access them through mobile is many times pretty expensive because they won't work on other browsers than IE and companies have to buy expensive 3rd party software for their mobile devices to access MS Enterprise products. This expensive cost could instantly go away with mobile 7 and IE.

Last but not least mobile does not stop with phones there is as well the keyboard less tablets business, which is right now dominated by the iPad but imagine all would be MS.
In order that I can use my iPad for work, i had to buy tons of software like numbers, pages, keynote, iConnect, logMeIn and more software to integrate the iPad for work. This was at least $100. MS could offer this for just $30 if you already have an office license for PC. And because none of these products are Microsoft native I can't convert them 100% and always lose a lot of functions.

I can see MS will get in the business world a market share of 70% within 2 years and in consumer market a 30% share within 3 years, if the concept is right and the phones offer enough service.

We will have again three main platforms and RIM will not be one of these.
Microsoft just needs to stay ahead and keep focused on mobile as an important business.

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The tablet market is heating up

In February 2010 Apple announced their iPad which a lot of critics called then just a bigger iPod touch which nobody needs. Apple did define a new type of computer, slimmer than netbooks and faster and more colorful than ebooks, but less speed, memory and size than notebooks.

Who in the world does need another device? Apple proofed we needed a new device between smart phone and notebook. In April the iPad got shipped and after only 2 months they sold over 3 Million.

Six months after the first iPad got shipped the market has changed. The iPad was just the beginning. Many manufactures did follow.
First the German company Neofonie announced their WePad with memo a Linux based tablet computer which just got released as WeTab starting at $499.



Then Samsung released their Galaxy Tab in the UK with a two years carrier contract which will translate into $1000 running android.



Shortly after Dell announced a 7inch slate as the big brother of the 5inch Dell streak phone. Both are running on android.


Today we did read about the Blackberry playbook a 7inch tablet with two cameras for business customers starting at $499.




HP announced at the CES their slate which is a 9.7inch touchscreen computer with either windows 7mobile, Palm Os or both, price around $500. But not released yet





And there might be many more coming as I posted a few weeks ago.

But really interesting is that none of them are cheaper than the iPad, but have two things the iPad does not.
Flash and cameras (at least one camera). They are all either more heavy or smaller than iPad but interesting not cheaper even if everybody said the iPad is too expensive.

Rumors are around that Apple is already producing the second iPad generation as a 7inch version and with camera. Which is not typical for Apple to come with a second version before a year ends.

Back to the start of this blog, do we really don't need a bigger iPod touch? Maybe not, but interesting that all big players are following Apple. Most of them had netbooks before, but now they are moving to slates and starting to discontinue the netbooks.

Steve Jobs might had his downtime when he was fired from Apple in 1985 (The Man Who Fired Steve Jobs From Apple, John Sculley, Is Now Getting Fired By His Wife). And struggled 10 years with Pixar and Next till he came back to Apple. But since his comeback it seems that he can create any products he wants and we buy them and the rest of the manufactures try to follow him.
Note:
Next was not a total failure, iOs is using objective C, which was the base for nextstep the Next OS. Pixar needed long till it made money with Toys story. But a lot of UI inventions of Mac OsX are products which were originated by Pixar developers in the early years. Steve was not a software guy, he loved hardware but Pixar helped him to get a feeling for Art in software (Source "the second coming of Steve Jobs").

2011 will be hot with slates, and as a friend of mine says: "if it is released, it is already old, go to the next thing". He is so right, all the companies who are right now copying Apple to bring faster and better products to compare with iPad, are so busy with this that they will be late with the next big thing because Apple will have it already.

It is time that somebody steps out and does their own thing, the only way to be ahead of Apple, at least right now.

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