The Critical Path, The First Year is now available on the Asymco Store.
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5by5 | The Critical Path #60: Innovation Anxiety.
A talk about the iPad mini, my trip to Taiwan, the cycle time of Apple's breakthrough innovations and the new Asymco Store.
The Asymconf 2012 videos are now available for purchase from the new Asymco Store.
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I talk to Jean-Louis Gassée about the early years of personal computing. The conversation spans from 1968 to 1991 and covers his roles at HP, Exxon Office Systems and his years at Apple. The story takes us back to a time and place that seems so distant and yet so familiar.
via 5by5 | The Critical Path #59: Gut-level Affection, An interview with Jean-Louis Gassée.
We discuss composing presentations on an iPad while on the road and, at long last, the completion of the Critical Path book. We examine Apple's honing technique in design, and how it contributes to forging products that are as uniquely experiential as the traditional samurai sword.
What job is there for the iPad mini to do? How do we stay focused on fundamentals when it comes to analyzing Apple's stock price?
A conversation with Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Apple's relationship with the media. How did the relationship evolve, is it changing and how is Apple addressing different media channels. Philip brings 30 years of experience to Apple journalism and provides some poignant anecdotes about Steve Jobs, the folklore of Apple and the disruption of journalism itself.
via 5by5 | The Critical Path #57: There Were Too Many Newspapers in New York.
James Allworth, Harvard Business School Forum for Growth and Innovation fellow and co-author of How Will You Measure Your Life joins Horace for an in-depth discussion of the vulnerability of Apple to low-end disruption. Specifically, assuming the iPhone reaches a point of over-service, did Apple arm its suppliers with the means to create its replacement? We dip into case studies of Dell, HP, HTC and Microsoft and touch on how iPod escaped this fate.
via 5by5 | The Critical Path #56: Strategic Disadvantages: A discussion with James Allworth.
Horace and Moisés discuss the early consumer response to iOS 6 (Maps in particular), and how people appear to greatly prefer native apps to their web app counterparts. They also dig into just how large an opportunity cost Apple is capable of absorbing in the interest of protecting their platform. In doing so, they examine the native app vs. HTML5 debate.
Horace and Moisés discuss Apple's iPhone 5 announcement. Was there a strategic shift? Whatever happened to targeting the low end of the market? Also, what's in store for the iPod touch?
Horace is still out crossing the globe on secret missions, so Moisés Chiullan, host of Screen Time, fills in for Dan. This week, Horace covers his Swipe Conference presentation on the history of personal computing and the shift to new platforms that foreshadows the dawn of a new era, the state of the US mobile market and where Lumia fits into the fold, and how Samsung moves forward in the wake of the litigation.
A recorded interview Peter Wells at Swipe Conference. We discuss the rise and fall of the PC, and some of the parallels that can be drawn from the rise of mobile platforms today. Which mobile platforms are destined to succeed, and who will fade away? And why can't some analysts count the iPad as a PC replacement? Horace also discusses the amazing iPad app he used today in his presentation.