Tag Archives: Apple

Our long romance with Apple technology

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Ray

  We all heard last night of the passing of Steve Jobs.  But rather than going over his life I would like to here discuss some of the Apple products I have used over my life and how they affected … Continue reading →

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What’s wrong with the iPad?

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Ray

We have been using the wi-fi iPad for just under 6 months now and I have a few suggestions to make it even easier to use. Safari Aside from the problem with lack of Flash support there are a few … Continue reading →

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Commodity hardware always loses

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Ray

A recent post by Stephen Foskett has revisted a blog discussion that Chuck Hollis and I had on commodity vs. special purpose hardware.  It’s clear to me that commodity hardware is a losing proposition for the storage industry and for … Continue reading →

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To iPad or not to iPad – part 2

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Ray

(Length post warning – 1200+ words) We had discussed using the iPad in a prior post and although, it was uncertain up to the last minute, I ended up taking the iPad to a conference early this month.  My uncertainty … Continue reading →

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Strategy is dead, again

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Ray

Was talking with a friend of mine this week and he said that strategic planning has been deemphasized these last few years mainly due to the economic climate.  We have discussed this before (see Strategy, as we know it, is … Continue reading →

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Better storage through hardware

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Ray

Chuck Hollis from EMC wrote a post last week on Storage is software about how hardware parts are becoming commoditized and so highly functional that future storage differentiation will only come from software.  I commented that hardware differentiation is also becoming … Continue reading →

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R&D effectiveness

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Ray

A recent Gizmodo blog post compared a decade of R&D at Sony, Microsoft and Apple.  There were some interesting charts but mostly it showed that R&D as a percent of revenue, fluctuates from year to year and R&D spend has been … Continue reading →

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Future iBook pricing

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Ray

All the news about iPad and iBooks app got me thinking. There’s been much discussion on e-book pricing but no one is looking at what to charge for items other than books.  I look at this as something like what … Continue reading →

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