by Mark P. McDonald | August 27, 2012 | Submit a Comment
Last week was a huge week for the company in Cupertino. They broke the record on the NYSE for the largest market value. They also won a landmark patent infringement case with a billion dollar damage award. The big question is can the company ignore all of this and keep moving forward. I wrote about [...]
Category: Digitalization Strategy Technology Tags: Apple, iPad, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | April 26, 2012 | 3 Comments
Note: this is a personal post. It reflects my personal views, not the views of my company or the site. It is not research or analysis of the company. Dear Apple: Congratulations on an outstanding quarterly performance. Apple’s success over the past ten years has been built on a foundation of creating insanely great products [...]
Category: Personal Observation Tags: Apple, personal musing
by Mark P. McDonald | March 16, 2012 | 4 Comments
This morning the UPS driver delivered the latest iPad to my house and a few things are immediately obvious. The third generation iPad continues to build on its role as a media syringe. The retina display is truly stunning. You notice how bright the screen is out of the box and the sharpness of the [...]
Category: Fun Personal Observation Technology Tags: Apple, customer experience, iPad, personal musing, Personal Observation, Technology
by Mark P. McDonald | September 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
I was working with a colleague this week and we were sitting across a conference room table. He had is MacAir out as we were working. Me, I was working on my iPad 1.0, yes an iPad One, which is in a Gorilla mobile case from Joby and accompanied by an Apple wireless keyboard. The [...]
Category: Innovation Personal Observation Technology Tags: Apple, iPad, PC, Personal Observation, Technology, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | August 26, 2011 | 3 Comments
The news wednesday night that Steve Jobs will be stepping down as CEO at Apple has probably generated as more blog activity than the announcement of the iPad. Earlier this week, I put up a post about the potential for Apple’s success to lead it to ‘jump the shark.” I had no idea that latter [...]
Category: Leadership Management Personal Observation Technology Tags: Apple, iPad
by Mark P. McDonald | August 24, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Three things over the past few weeks have come together and sounded little warning bells as I think about Apple, where it is and where it might be going. Apple has been so successful and is so hyped in popular culture that it finds itself ideally positioned to ‘jump the shark’. Jumping the Shark is [...]
Category: Leadership Management Personal Observation Technology Tags: Apple, iPad
by Mark P. McDonald | August 11, 2010 | Submit a Comment
Our niece is going away to college. She is the next to last of our nieces and nephews to go and we wanted to help her out by buying her a laptop for college. So began a quest of scanning the websites, CNET, the news paper offers, etc all to find the best combination of [...]
Category: Personal Observation Technology Tags: Apple, Computers, consumers, Personal Observation
by Mark P. McDonald | May 4, 2010 | 3 Comments
The Internet is a rich with information and different ways to deliver it. That information is exclusively visual, displayed on flat screen separated from you by a computer keypad. While surfing the web is easy, its more difficult to share that information by passing it along to your friends. Handing someone an open laptop is [...]
Category: Innovation Personal Observation Tools Tags: Apple, Information, iPad, personal musing, product innovation
by Mark P. McDonald | April 14, 2010 | 3 Comments
I picked up my iPad a week ago and I have been using it around the home office, house and on a few business trips. Here are the impressions so far and they build on the comments I made earlier. Warning this is a long post. Please note that I am trying to find ways [...]
Category: Personal Observation Technology Tags: Apple, iPad, Technology
