Aug 29, 2006
General News
Project Management Source has a list of pop business productivity wisdom entitled Lessons from Project Management: 101 ways to organize your lifecomplete with a reference to "ZEN" - my how we love ZEN in just about everything today. Some of this is good advice, most is the commons sense, blah, blah, blah that sells many books and lacks serious reflection.
Calculate your Miles Per Dollar - you know how many miles per gallon you get in your ride...now you can see how many miles you get for every George Washington in your wallet. I get about 9 miles per dollar...so it costs me about $1.96 round trip to my office each day.
Technology
Is there a new evil empire brewing? Google CEO Eric Schmidt joins Apple's board. I had one friend tell me they were boycotting apple because they are becoming "the man" - this indeed looks more likely now that "the man" of Internet searching and page ranking has joined the board.
The Old Evil Empire (you know Microsoft) has just released their first "release candidate" of Windows Vista. Oooo can't wait. Actually, with our next PC purchase we will be choosing between the Old and New evil empires...what to do?
Comments
With Apple only representing 3% of the market share they are far from being "the man." And that's from me, a hardcore Mac user.
Posted by: R. Mansfield | August 29, 2006 11:58 PM
Yes, but a huge percentage of another growing market. In digital media players and content delivery (iTunes) they are very much the man.
But I am contemplating going Mac some day...
Posted by: Reid | August 30, 2006 12:45 AM
Yes, but unless Apple merges the iPod with the cell phone, they've lost the market. Nokia music phones outsold iPods this past quarter. iPods as a standalone product have hit their peak.
Personally, I'd love to see this happen, but Apple is not a cell phone company. There've been rumors for years of an Apple-based phone, but it's never seen the market. And I can't imagine them trying to crack the very tough cell phone market at this stage.
That means that they'd have to partner with an existing company, perhaps in someing like the Motorola iTunes phone that came out a few months ago. But it was not very well received.
Regardless, it's an uphill battle on this one.
Personally, I'd like to see them pour all that R&D they've been spending on the iPod back into the Mac.
Posted by: R. Mansfield | August 30, 2006 07:04 AM
Apple IS the man...like as if you were saying, "You the man, dawg!"
I've never had anything but a Mac. They RULE! Windows Vista? pssssssh....
Posted by: Greg Hardin | August 31, 2006 02:12 PM
Yeah, as my man Mansfield said - 3% is not "the man" in the PC world. They are "the man" in MP3 world - in both senses :)
Posted by: Reid | September 1, 2006 03:38 PM