by | | Opinion & Ideas, Other Categories, Strategy
Tech companies have been going up and down during the last years and its been a while since I last checked a comparison chart about the ones that are doing well vs the ones that are “not so lucky”.
It is curious to see how the fastest growing company of the last years (Apple), was once saved by Microsoft 15 years ago back in 1997. At that time around June 1997 Apple shares where worth USD 3.5 now in 2012 they are worth around USD 700, doubling its overall market value in comparison to Microsoft and becoming the most valuable company in the world.
If you are interested to hear Steve Jobs talking nice about the “collaboration deal” with Microsoft that saved Apple at that time here is the video.
As you can see companies that in 2005 were “quiet”, now are screaming of success and others that where successful at that time now are having a lot of problems…
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by | | Mobile & Tablets, Opinion & Ideas
What I am about to write not everybody will understand. I am geek, a person who really love all kind of technology software, hardware, gadgets and so. I really miss my smartphone, and I will tell you why:
My girlfriend and I moved to Switzerland a little more than 6 months ago, the contrast with Argentina (where we used to live) is really enormous, and we really love being here. When we decided to leave our country, we sold everything, including our smartphones. I used to have an old Samsung Galaxy S (yes, the first one) which already feels like a dinosaur old. When we arrived to Switzerland I was given an iPhone 4S at the company where I temporary worked for three months, and I loved it. It was my first experience with an iPhone, the whole experience was “it just works” although I understand that the contrast between this mobile and the one I used to have is also very big in terms of technology…
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by | | Mobile & Tablets, Opinion & Ideas, Strategy
As usual Apple rumours are all along; this time making references to the iPad Mini a 7.85” tablet to be announced soon. The spread word indicates that the new device will be announced around the 17th of October 20012 but no invitations have been received by anybody yet.
Considering all this as true, an iPad Mini could really hit the market and shake things up for everybody, some speculations state that 10 million devices has been ordered to manufacture. (UPDATE: New Image added with a filtered price list in Euros)
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by | | Apple
I’ve just spent 50 minutes in the phone with an Apple representative, when the call dropped after being on hold for 15 minutes. The representative was waiting for a senior supporter to be available.
I think I found a behavior error on the Reminders app on iOS 6. When you try to share a note the sharing menu is not available… (more…)
by | | Apple, Mobile & Tablets
In June 2011 my girlfriend gave as a birthday present an iPod Nano sixth-generation. I loved it. It was a nice iPod with FM Radio and the most important side of it (at least for me) she also gave me an iWatchZ wrist band so I could use it as a watch!
For some reason Apple didnt like the idea of people wearing the tinniest iPod as a watch because the new seventh-generation of iPod Nano announced on Sept. 12 2012, is larger, impossible to use as one…
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Tech companies have been going up and down during the last years and its been a while since I last checked a comparison chart about the ones that are doing well vs the ones that are “not so lucky”.