Tim Bajarin
Tim Bajarin
Tim Bajarin is an American technology columnist and a technology consultant. His writing and analysis has been on the forefront of the digital revolution. He was one of the first analysts to cover the PC Industry and is considered one of the leading experts in the field of technology adoption cycles. He is president of a technology company called Creative Strategies, located in Campbell, California...
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I don't think Apple wants to emulate Sony. I don't think they want to do video cameras. I don't think they want to do TVs. They are rounding out the Mac consumer ecosystem. I think they will be extremely cautious about what they brand as an Apple product.
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Every TV set, set-top box, cell phone will have an Internet connection. If every device is connected to the Internet, it requires a different way of thinking about how to create products and how consumers use products.
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There's a lot of potential for it in the upper end of the consumer segment and even the broader consumer market. For this to get the most attention, they've got to get it to a price point of under $500.
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The first 25 years of the tech era was to bring digital technologies to businesses and millions of personal computers. The next 25 years will be focused on bringing digital technologies to billions of consumer devices.
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This hits retailers, and it hits PC makers that were looking toward Vista for a surge in consumer PC sales at the end of the year.
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If you're a consumer and you decided to wait out the Christmas season, you're going to get some great buys from a price standpoint very shortly.
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Consumers buy on cost, and while you can potentially upgrade them to a bigger hard drive or perhaps one with a bigger screen, you're going into new territory with pink or yellow or blue.
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While Apple has done the best job to date, not everybody is ready to just throw in with Apple. Nor are they willing to do so with Microsoft and their store or Real and their store. In some cases, they'd like to do without the middleman and sell direct to customers.
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It has potential. If you can tie a quick payment concept to the cell phone and know it's secure and protected, it absolutely becomes a viable platform for digital payments. But the most important thing is to build a secure system that is impenetrable.
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Microsoft's business model is not to create branded hardware. They're a software company. Normally, when they put these kinds of devices together, they're reference designs.
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Steve's first love is technology. He has always believed that technology has the ability to change the world.
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I think peer-to-peer technologies are starting to become more accepted. Video is a very important part of the Internet and with Internet distribution, they're definitely on the right path. The important factor is to get the content out there, which helps to curb piracy.
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While he was their leader, he had an incredible team around him and has seemed to be grooming them for the time when he would step down. Although it is a loss, I think he has left Apple very capable of carrying their software vision forward and they should not really miss a beat.
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This time, they really made the interface simpler.