Nov 16
How to Avoid the ‘Peter Principle’ in Your Startuphttp://blog.startupprofessionals.com/2010/11/how-to-avoid-peter-principle-in-your.htmlAn excellent insightful article. I liked "Executives get paid to manage the job, not to do it". Transitioning into a management role can very difficult, almost impossible for some, but I feel competence, though is the most important factor, is not the only one. It also depends on you finding and working with the right coach/mentor within or outside your organization.
Also startups are focussed on delivery and not a lot of turnover occurs at the executive level, unless things go bad. In larger organizations, there may be more opportunities.
Nov 5
Liability or security and usability most of the times seem to end up being competing forces at least in large organizations. Is the cloud the answer to mobile device liability? If that is your only problem to solve, then it could be, but that is not the goal. The goal of mobility is to increase productivity and lower costs. This can only be achieved by increasing adoption of mobility by your employees. That is only possible when highly usable mobile services are made available. The "on demand" nature of cloud data with the current loose definition of broadband means that those services will suffer from poor network performance.
Web 2.0 did bring rich highly interactive applications to the cloud. Phones and data rates are getting faster, but until data rates get closer to ITU-R requirements, highly interactive, exclusively cloud based mobile applications have a long way to go.
Nov 5
Galaxy and other Android phones have closed the gap. They will continue to get better. Apple cannot keep off Motorola, HTC, Samsung and LG from keeping pace and coming up with phones with much better spec. It is going to be very difficult for Apple to innovate to further leap frog the competition in the phone space. There was plenty of innovation in iPhone 4, but it did not raise the bar as much as the previous versions. Hence it may be difficult to repeat the growth in iPhone sales in 2011, but it does not matter.
When only incremental improvement was possible with iPod, Apple focused on iPhone, it will continue to make incremental progress with iPhone and focus on iPad for its radical innovation. iPad has already proven to be the fastest selling electronic device ever and will probably do many times better next year.
http://www.bgr.com/2010/11/04/samsung-galaxy-s-now-1-in-japan-displacing-iphone-4/
Nov 2
I do not think market share really matters in an exploding market . iPad has created this market and others with ride in it's wake for sometime. IPad will probably more than double it sales next year.
Nov 1
Verizon, by bundling MiFi is also trying to get a piece of the iPad pie.
Sprint may not stock the iPhone or the iPad, but that hasn’t stopped them from reaping the benefits (or even making a case) of the iPad’s success. In an interview with GigaOm, Dan Hesse,CEO of Sprint pointed out that the fastest selling iPad’s were the WiFi variants, which bodes well for Sprint. Sprint’s Overdrive 3G/4G mobile wireless hotspot, has been selling well, allowing iPad owners to blitz the net at 4G speeds. “The company has seen an uptick in demand for its Overdrive (3G/4G) MiFi wireless hotspot device, as people use it to connect their iPads to the Internet when on the go.” Although Dan stopped short of giving us some actual numbers, we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Sprint has been rolling out their 4G network gradually across the major cities in the U.S., and from the looks of it, their Overdrive sales aren’t going to pipe down any time soon. [Via Engadget] Read 
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Oct 29
With so many expeditions trying to make it to the top, this probably is also a good economic decision.
Oct 29
As usual, Seth Godin is right on target!!. Like everything else in life, there are people who are happy with doing just enough.
Others who want to push the boundaries need better choices or will have to push harder to make those choices for themselves.
Steve Jobs?
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Oct 28
Verizon is selling an AT&T product, never thought this could happen. The reason is either iPad is such a great product and Verizon could not wait to get a piece of the Apple pie or a genius at Verizon came up with an idea to boost the sales of MiFi 2200 or both. Either way the consumer wins.
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/10/28/apple-ipad-now-available-from-verizon-wireless-and-att/
Oct 27
Hybrids are not "value for money" to the average consumer. Tesla cars, even the new sedan, is targeted at the high income group, hence the 8% number seems logical. Tesla would be more than happy with a small slice of that pie.
Nissan Leaf seems to be a better bet to change the equation. With a $25k price tag ( after rebates) and $.03c (claimed) cost per mile ( about 1/4th the cost of an average sedan) it is a lot more appealing, at least in terms of value. The look may not appeal to everyone though.
A two seater electric car, similar to the Smart car with a lower price tag will spur adoption even further.
