Tag: Apple

  • Learning by Proxy | Anger

    I was watching the formula one race last weekend; it was a useless procession of cars. That sport has never been as boring as it is not. Despite having a commanding lead and having won by a huge margin, the victor could not even feign happiness for the others. Sports is not about enmity but…

  • The evolution of IoT

    There has been a lot of work that has gone into IoT devices and I often find startups which pitch consumer facing IoT solutions to me. Apart from the fact that there is zero differentiation and high reproducibility, my questions often hang around whether people feel the pain or not? Do you ever WANT to…

  • Certainty

    In life the things that you do depend on the degree of certainty. A few days back Salma mailed this image and asked me which company seems to have the best revenue split. The instinctive answer was to say – Microsoft. They seem to the most diversified. They are not dependent on any one stream…

  • What would our grand children consider classics?

    It is safe to say that; content is in a state of 911. I find very few sources where I can get content, where a great deal of though and analysis has been put in. Interestingly, I find many more sources where I can get cat videos and snarky two liners. Truth be told, not…

  • Apple showed me how it cares

    Today, I had to transfer the contents on my old laptop to a new one. Fortunately both the laptops were Macs. About 5 years, back when all of my computing was still being done on windows; if such a situation had arisen, I would get a sinking feeling in my stomach because I was near…

  • Why Apple is in a different league to Samsung

    Apple launched the new iPhone 6 in larger screen sizes. The moment the launch event ended, the entire web was abuzz with jokes about how Apple had done exactly what Samsung had done years ago. There were comparative picture, which were circulating all over the web. Samsung just could not withhold their exuberance! They even…

  • Trolling – Who Benefits?

    There is a lot of discussion currently about the BigBillionDay campaign which Flipkart had run. Flipkart decided to make a splash about certain sale/discount/offers being available on their website on the day in order to generate shopper interest and therefore sales. Given the numbers that the company has ben publishing, we can only conclude that…

  • What I learnt from Beats

    Beats, the company that is famous for their headphones and who also have a fledgling music business recently got acquired by Apple. I have been absorbing all of the commentary surrounding this right from the time that the deal was still a rumour. I really do not know if this acquisition is a good thing…

  • Ramblings on Perseverance

    Steve Jobs is considered one of the most successful entrepreneurs of our times. He was involved in three ventures, Apple, Next and Pixar; of which two can be considered bonafide successes. Next was more of an acqui-hire and we really do not know if it would have been a hit, stand-alone. But if we were…

  • Vision and its role in achieving success

    I travel a lot and I drive very often. I always try to reach the destination as fast as possible. I use to think that the speed at which you drive is related to the width of the road. The wider road affords you a lot of room to make errors and therefore allowing you to…