Adobe today:
We will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations
Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash, April 2010
New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
Bloomberg Businessweek goes behind the scenes to reveal Apple’s secret to dominating the market through extremely tight supply-chain management and operations.
Apple convinced the seller to sign an exclusivity agreement and has since bought hundreds of [laser equipments worth $250 thousand each] to make holes for the green lights that now shine on the company’s MacBook Airs, Trackpads, and wireless keyboards.
The company locks up air freight costs and schedules far ahead the rest of the industry, giving it dominance in worldwide shipping.
Apple realized it could pack so many of the diminutive music players on planes that it became economical to ship them directly from Chinese factories to consumers’ doors. When an HP staffer bought one and received it a few days later, tracking its progress around the world through Apple’s website, “It was an ‘Oh s—’ moment,” recalls Fawkes.
That mentality—spend exorbitantly wherever necessary, and reap the benefits from greater volume in the long run—is institutionalized throughout Apple’s supply chain, and begins at the design stage.
Apple locks up parts and equipments too and as a result competitors must wait for months to manufacture their products
Before the release of the iPhone 4 in June 2010, rivals such as HTC couldn’t buy as many screens as they needed because manufacturers were busy filling Apple orders, according to a former manager at HTC. To manufacture the iPad 2, Apple bought so many high-end drills to make the device’s internal casing that other companies’ wait time for the machines stretched from six weeks to six months, according to a manager at the drillmaker.
At this point, Apple can’t afford to lose Tim Cook. There’s really nobody who could take the helm of Apple from Jobs other than his former COO. Cook is swift, clinical, and ruthless in operations but he also knows his shortcoming, products, which is why that aspect of the company goes to people like Jonathan Ive and Scott Forstall.
This tightly knit team is what makes this piece of news all the more important. Without all hands on deck, Apple would crumble and competitors will eat them. Apple may have lost a crucially important playmaker but as long as the company locks up its other MVPs, the rest of the team will fall in line.
jmak:
Thanks, Steve.
Posting designs like this one makes me paranoid, because I can’t shake the feeling that it’s not original. I enjoyed the process regardless, but please let me know if somebody else beat me to the idea!
Thoughts?
I don’t know why people are making such a big fuss on whether Apple will release a brand new redesigned iPhone. The current models are fine as they are. If they’re gonna release a new phone, the design doesn’t have to be changed.
Apple didn’t change the iMac’s design for years at a time. The MacBook went through several revisions over two years without a new design. Same with the transition from PowerBook to MacBook Pro. Oh, and don’t get me started on the Power Mac G5 to Mac Pro.
The design of the iPhone 3G was maintained over two versions, so why not maintain the current form for the next release? iPhone 4 is still the top selling phone in the US, followed by the 3GS despite being more than 15 months old and in the case of 3GS, more than 24 months old. That tells you that the designs work pretty well. It’s never form over function.
I mean just look at the packaging, the power adapter, the design of the box, the device itself, the USB cable, they’re different. Right?
It has been almost a month since Steve Jobs officially stepped down as CEO of Apple. Today the stock is literally off-the-charts at a new all-time high.
Apple’s market cap is now nearly $25 billion larger than Exxon’s, the second most-valuable public company in the world. Apple’s market cap will soon surpass $400 billion.
The iPhone 5 hasn’t even been announced yet.
As per the news from Stephen Hackett at forkbombr, Apple has moved to decommission Apple Online Stores in Indonesia and Vietnam. No reason was given for the decision although at least for Indonesia, the writing has been on the wall for quite some time. Those who bought personalized iPods from the online store will no longer be able to receive personalized replacements should they need to exchange them under service terms.
Apple Online Store for Indonesia first opened for business in November 2008 along with several other Southeast Asian store fronts though without much fanfare. The Southeast Asian stores were established as extensions of the Singapore Apple Online Store with all orders processed and managed from the city state.
Apple would love us to believe it’s all “Eureka.” But Apple produces 10 pixel-perfect prototypes for each feature. They compete — and are winnowed down to three, then one, resulting in a highly evolved winner. Because Apple knows the more you compete inside, the less you’ll have to compete outside.
The benchmark is a PowerMac G5 1.6GHz at 1000 points, measured using GeekBench. You can switch between 32-bit and 64-bit performances.
My late 2007 2.2GHz MacBook scored 3281 for 64bit performance, just 50 points ahead of the same speed MacBook Pro released earlier in the same year, which means it’s just over three times more powerful than the baseline PowerMac G5. The base model 2011 MacBook Air with Core i5 though, scored 4988, nearly five times more powerful.
It was more than frustrating,” the former White House aide said. “Here we were, this young hip administration, and we were using stodgy BlackBerrys and old Microsoft programs. A lot of us were starting to get iPhones and iPads and we couldn’t really use them.
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