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Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO

Aug25
2011 Leave a Comment Written by hotrao

Yesterday Steve Jobs, one of the most influential persons of all times in tech resigned from Apple.

Many sites have launched the news and the question of what will be the future of Apple (and technology) without this guru (among them Matthew Humphries at geek.com, Tim Stevens at Engadget.com, Michael Trei at Dvice.com, Ken Mingis at Computerworld , Geeks are sexy.net, Betanews.com).

As I wrote many times, first of all the first sign of respect should be towards Steve Jobs’ health and privacy. From now own there will be no reasons to continue invading is life.

On a operational and leadership POV, Steve leaves a company solid and well ahead of other players (a study from this days says that Apple has leadership on tablet market at least for another 2 years).

This means Apple managers will have enough time to strengthen their position.

On a financial POV Apple can rely on the first (or second depends on times) value in stock market with over 320bln USD.

Overall I’m confident that Apple will continue in its market leadership and envisioning new ideas, despite the absence of Steve Jobs.

This post also at geek.com , at Engadget.com, at Dvice.com, at Computerworld , Betanews

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Why I bet that Apple future without Steve Jobs is as bright as the past

Jan18
2011 Leave a Comment Written by hotrao

Many sites and authors (among them Matt Hartley at Lockergnome, full article at http://www.lockergnome.com/it/2011/01/17/is-steve-jobs-critical-to-apple/, Joe Wilcox at Beta news, full article at http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Apples-future-without-Steve-Jobs-wont-be-as-bright/1295327829 and at http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/What-future-does-Apple-have-without-Steve-Jobs/1295286850 and at http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Steve-Jobs-takes-another-medical-leave-from-Apple/1295278306, Juan Carlos Perez at Computer world, full article at http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9205362/With_Apple_s_Jobs_on_leave_many_questions_and_few_answers, Peter Sayer at Computer world, full article at http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9205342/Update_Apple_CEO_Steve_Jobs_to_take_medical_leave_of_absence, Chris Foresman at Ars Techinca, full article at http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/01/apple-ceo-steve-jobs-back-on-medical-leave.ars, Matthew Humphries at Geek.com, full article at http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/steve-jobs-goes-on-medical-leave-of-absence-20110117/, Mike Halsey at ghack.com, full article at http://www.ghacks.net/2011/01/17/steve-jobs-to-take-leave-of-absence-from-apple-for-health-reasons/) covered the anouncement of Steve Jobs leave for absence due to medical problems. Most of them also told that Steve Jobs is strictly related to Apple future in terms of positive impact. On top of this Apple shares declined after the announcement has been made.

In my opinion, Steve Jobs is very important for Apple because of charisma, innovation, leadership and vision. But times are different now form those when Steve came back and reseurrected Apple from ashes.

Apple is now a company with a stronger brand, that goes over the geeks and is more linked to marketing.

Apple is a strong company with cutting edge technologies and more patents that can turn in billion dollars ideas.

Apple has now an industrial approach for going live.

Apple has also grown or acquired lot of professionals and managers that can continue the business.

Apple also has a marketing and commercial model for applications selling that is something that is a step beyond also for new coming devices.

I don’t work for Apple (in fact I work for another very big company that is a competitor for part of Apple business), but I think the Cupertino company is stronger than ever.

With Steve at the helm also has the plus of a Guru, but without can continue the business without problems.

This post as a comment also at http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Apples-future-without-Steve-Jobs-wont-be-as-bright/1295327829, at http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/What-future-does-Apple-have-without-Steve-Jobs/1295286850, http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Steve-Jobs-takes-another-medical-leave-from-Apple/1295278306, http://www.computerworld.com/comments/node/9205362#comment-716336, http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/01/apple-ceo-steve-jobs-back-on-medical-leave.ars?comments=1&p=21225850#comment-21225850, http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/steve-jobs-goes-on-medical-leave-of-absence-20110117/comment-page-1/#comment-3975084, http://www.ghacks.net/2011/01/17/steve-jobs-to-take-leave-of-absence-from-apple-for-health-reasons/#comment-1295892 and at http://www.lockergnome.com/it/2011/01/17/is-steve-jobs-critical-to-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-250537

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VLC pulled from Apple app store

Jan08
2011 Leave a Comment Written by hotrao

Matthew Humphries at geek.com informs us that Apple has excluded VLC player form Apple store due to supposed terms of licence under GNU (full article at http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/vlc-media-player-pulled-from-the-app-store-2011018/).

Could be for this or to avoid that the service for renting and selling films is put under discussion by the ability to read divx films inside Apple devices?

I really love iPhone, iPad and Mac, though I use mainly Linux and windows for work. But is not with this kind of things (or by trying to exclude porn) that Apple can reinforce the position against competitors.

This post as a comment also at  http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/vlc-media-player-pulled-from-the-app-store-2011018/comment-page-1/#comment-3968386

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Facebook informations download

Oct09
2010 Leave a Comment Written by hotrao

Matthew Humphries at geek.com and Martin at ghacks.net report that Facebook rolled out a new features that enables the download of all information on local (full article at http://www.geek.com/articles/news/facebook-now-lets-you-download-your-information-2010106/ and at http://www.ghacks.net/author/martin/)

Really usefull to have on local what you and your friends posted online.  Maybe to double check what is going to be made public at next security flaw? ;-)

This post as a comment also at http://www.geek.com/articles/news/facebook-now-lets-you-download-your-information-2010106/comment-page-1/#comment-3894496 and at http://www.ghacks.net/2010/10/07/facebook-adds-download-your-information-feature/

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Google url shortener open to the public

Oct01
2010 Leave a Comment Written by hotrao

Tom Krazit at Cnet (http://www.cnet.com/profile/Tom+Krazit/) reports that Google service to shorten urls (goo.gl at http://goo.gl/)  is now open the public, while previosuly available only through Google toolbar. (full article at http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20018212-265.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20).

Same argument is covered by Nancy Messieh at Make use of (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/google-url-shortener-launches-website-news/), Matthew Humpries at Geek.com (http://www.geek.com/users/Matthew/, full article at http://www.geek.com/articles/news/now-everyone-can-use-the-google-url-shortener-goo-gl-20100930), Martin at ghacks (http://www.ghacks.net/author/martin/, full article at http://www.ghacks.net/2010/10/01/goo-gl-google-url-shortener-do-we-really-need-it/), Adam Dachis at Lifehacker (http://lifehacker.com/people/adachis/posts/, full article at http://lifehacker.com/5652533/google-url-shortener-finally-gets-its-own-web-site)

I think is a good service and I understand the option of make it available through a dedicated site. On the other side, I don’t think will be a remarkable service from Google (Maybe I don’t catch where is the innovation,while I understand where is a differentiator).

This post as a comment also at http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20018212-265.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 and at http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/google-url-shortener-launches-website-news/#disqus_thread and at http://www.geek.com/articles/news/now-everyone-can-use-the-google-url-shortener-goo-gl-20100930/comment-page-1/#comment-3889247 and at http://www.ghacks.net/2010/10/01/goo-gl-google-url-shortener-do-we-really-need-it/ and at http://lifehacker.com/5652533/google-url-shortener-finally-gets-its-own-web-site

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