As simple as this: CIOs don't have enough experience selling (if they have any). The CEO is your marketer-in-chief: (s)he's selling how good the company is to your stakeholders, clients, and even suppliers (want a better, big, deal? ask 'em to talk with your CEO). CIOs are not trained for that.
Sancho, OpenBSD (as this is the case) is a great software for embedded systems / appliance hardware.
Selling stuff (all kind) to the embedded systems community (much bigger than the 3% non-windows consumer electronics you mention) is hard since they *must* have excellent hardware (=driver) suport.
You cannot get hardware running with confidence on embedded systems if you have to load a blob and cross your fingers hoping that blob/firmware code won't have (many) bugs inside you won't be able to fix, and the manufacturer won't fix for me since they have other people source code to blame...... and *please* don't ask me to use XP Embedded, QNX, Neutrino, etc... embedded systems are expensive enough *just* running Net/OpenBSD.
Sorry, I don't get it: OPEN drivers are good for manufacturers.
Their products get good support, and good drivers written by others; and they also get more sales without spending money in marketing (unless your product is a mess; if that's your case, you've got a different problem;-).
Interesting patent. It's just describes what a (IP) telephony switch does. Seems funny they're just suing Skype (direct competitor), but not MSN.
BTW: Their algorithm looks very similar to a P2P tracker (like bittorrent) without the peers telling anything about how much datablocks they have/want.
This move makes sense: now they're working with (more or less) the same hardware, they must hava a common benchmark to measure their hardware performance.
Does it mean Apple will use new Intel CPUs as soon as they'll be available ? AFAIK - that's the only way to play the speed game in the Intel world.This move makes sense: now they're working with (more or less) the same hardware, they must hava a common benchmark to measure their hardware performance.
Apple must be very confident about their benchmarking results.
I see no *revolution* on YouTube, Flickr, blogging, etc.. You could post, and share photos and/or videos on the Internet back in 1994.
IMHO - The "difference" between now and 1994 are just Demographics and Usability: * Nowadays, we have much more people online than in 1994, 1998, or 2001. * Back in 1994 you had to be a computer whiz to post photos/videos, etc... most "business" built then assumed their users had some kind of "computer skills" normal people usually lack of.
*IF* you lower your product entry barrier (making it easy to use), WHILE there's more and more audience available, you're business will likely succeed;-)
I know about another system called Tractis that will have a public beta soon.
Its parent company, Negonation won some bussiness-developement contests with Tractis.
*Every* consumer-products company MUST have something NEW ready for Christmas (aka. peak sales period).
If M$ *cannot* deliver Vista by September 1st, hardware vendors won't be able to ship their PCs with Vista on Christmas. In this case, I bet they will postpone their shipping date to late-January / mid-February 2006.
As soon Vista is released, PCs with XP pre-installed will be sold at discount. M$ can't "punish" their customers (OEM, not end users) on their peak sales period:
That's why the $100 MIT Laptop makes sense: It's "cheap" for developing countries.
Any *serious* developer should have one on hist desk just to see how his applications perform on the next half-of-the-world-hardware-standard.
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As simple as this: CIOs don't have enough experience selling (if they have any).
The CEO is your marketer-in-chief: (s)he's selling how good the company is to your stakeholders, clients, and even suppliers (want a better, big, deal? ask 'em to talk with your CEO).
CIOs are not trained for that.
Sancho, OpenBSD (as this is the case) is a great software for embedded systems / appliance hardware.
... and *please* don't ask me to use XP Embedded, QNX, Neutrino, etc... embedded systems are expensive enough *just* running Net/OpenBSD.
Selling stuff (all kind) to the embedded systems community (much bigger than the 3% non-windows consumer electronics you mention) is hard since they *must* have excellent hardware (=driver) suport.
You cannot get hardware running with confidence on embedded systems if you have to load a blob and cross your fingers hoping that blob/firmware code won't have (many) bugs inside you won't be able to fix, and the manufacturer won't fix for me since they have other people source code to blame...
Sorry, I don't get it: OPEN drivers are good for manufacturers.
;-).
Their products get good support, and good drivers written by others; and they also get more sales without spending money in marketing (unless your product is a mess; if that's your case, you've got a different problem
... or maybe they just want to be bought from eBay/Skype, not from M$ ? Never underestimate VCs stock options ;-)
Interesting patent. It's just describes what a (IP) telephony switch does.
Seems funny they're just suing Skype (direct competitor), but not MSN.
BTW: Their algorithm looks very similar to a P2P tracker (like bittorrent) without the peers telling anything about how much datablocks they have/want.
There's one big advantage with National ID Cards tied to contracts: the bills go to the person, not to an address.
For instance, if you relocate to the UK you may receive bills in your address for the previous renter. And you have to pay them.
This move makes sense: now they're working with (more or less) the same hardware, they must hava a common benchmark to measure their hardware performance.
Does it mean Apple will use new Intel CPUs as soon as they'll be available ?
AFAIK - that's the only way to play the speed game in the Intel world.This move makes sense: now they're working with (more or less) the same hardware, they must hava a common benchmark to measure their hardware performance.
Apple must be very confident about their benchmarking results.
I see no *revolution* on YouTube, Flickr, blogging, etc.. You could post, and share photos and/or videos on the Internet back in 1994.
;-)
IMHO - The "difference" between now and 1994 are just Demographics and Usability:
* Nowadays, we have much more people online than in 1994, 1998, or 2001.
* Back in 1994 you had to be a computer whiz to post photos/videos, etc... most "business" built then assumed their users had some kind of "computer skills" normal people usually lack of.
*IF* you lower your product entry barrier (making it easy to use), WHILE there's more and more audience available, you're business will likely succeed
I know about another system called Tractis that will have a public beta soon.
Its parent company, Negonation won some bussiness-developement contests with Tractis.
*Every* consumer-products company MUST have something NEW ready for Christmas (aka. peak sales period).
If M$ *cannot* deliver Vista by September 1st, hardware vendors won't be able to ship their PCs with Vista on Christmas. In this case, I bet they will postpone their shipping date to late-January / mid-February 2006.
As soon Vista is released, PCs with XP pre-installed will be sold at discount. M$ can't "punish" their customers (OEM, not end users) on their peak sales period:
$peak_sales = $christmas ;
big_profit ($christmas) unless ( ( $peak_sales == $discount ) || failed_business_model ) ;
Yep. You're right - it was the TitanumPowerbook. ;-)
Don't let your subconcious comment for you on slashdot
The announcement date (Jan 2006 at Macworld San Francisco) makes sense: January sales figures are flatline.
Apple, usually makes new product announcements on January:
* 2005 - iPod Shuffle
* 2004 - iPod Mini / XServe G5
* 2003 - 20" Cinema Display + New Powermacs + New iBooks + iLife + Safari + Final Cut Express
* 2002 - New iMacs + 12" iBook + iPhoto + OSX installed by default on new machines...
* 2001 - Titanium iBook.
That's why the $100 MIT Laptop makes sense: It's "cheap" for developing countries. Any *serious* developer should have one on hist desk just to see how his applications perform on the next half-of-the-world-hardware-standard.
Their servers just choked (before being slashdotted).
(See http://flickr.com/photos/igonzalez/63231271/ -- That's the Message you get after logon on. )