Magical act in branding & miniaturization. Charistimatic builder of great business with attitude. Sony Walkman, Sony Handycam. "It's a Sony" slogan. Build Sony from scratch, turning the tiny setup into the crown jewel of Asia, and the darling brand of the world.
Dedication, tinkering persistence, passion & strong vision to make horseless carriage a reality. "Car for the people". "Assembly manufacturing concept". Years of consistent dedicated act, tinkering and passion. One of the greatest, finest and bravest tinkerer of all time. Modern mobile society as the result.
Passion for excellence & master of continous magical act. Make things happen greatly with style. Leaders with strong sense of vision and with "no limit" nor "no boundary" for next great cultural possibility to explore. Mac. Next. iPod. iPhone. Apple. Next. Pixar. Think Different. Mix innovation & culture at its best. Modern digital culture is born, and consistently turns greater under his act. 
The greatest people manager and most charismatic people-centric business leader of all time. Think. Respect to individual. People first. Under his great leadership turns the tiny IBM into a mighty organization of its time. The "king" in the annal of "business kingdom". A rare business person with great business persona and legendary people-centric attitude of our time.
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... it would become not only a great iPod player, a great 'portable browser', a great 'portable PDA/computer' ... but also a great digital camera and a great digital videocam!!
Oh, Apple's baseline-platform to build its next 'great innovation and future' seems to be totally solid, sound and strong!
People say that Apple is currently working in redesigning the classic polycarbonate MacBook, so it could become the seed of a birth of a 'cheaper macbook' (a.k.a new gene of 'netbook computers') in the apple's product lineup.
If the information is true, I imagine it would mean: (1) Soon we would have slimmer, smaller, cheaper polycarbonate Macbooks available in the market, (2) The price range for such 'device' would be below $999 (or ideally in the range of $500-$600) which would shake and redefine the 'netbook market' to a new level. We shall take a look whether such rumor is true. If it is indeed is correct, it would truly shake up the netbook market to a new degree.
As predicted few months ago, seems what Oracle had in mind with its Sun acquisition attempt is to package its entire suite of software onto a stack of hardware that is being optimized for performance, security and scalability.
The so called "Sun Oracle Database Machine" is may be the earliest attempt in such direction. With such, the 'traditional fine-line' between hardware and software business blurs once more. While in the past, people could talk about "buying software separately from the machine", as software's completeness (and complexity) grow even more, embedded-software approach start to make sense. We will continue see how Oracle move forward with this. Especially what will it do with its MySQL software asset. On personal side, my key question -- and perhaps the most interesting 'speculation' -- in this direction is: Would we eventually have an 'Sun Oracle MySQL Database Machine' one day? Something that is being scaled, optimized and designed for the cloud computing's web-scale era? It would just take a few twist and turn before Oracle eventually rolls out more and more 'business suite machine' into the marketplace. Yet the most interesting question to ask is: Would it eventually rolls out its 'cloud computing machine' as well ??Such is something that is remain to be seen. But -- my guess -- the probability of such happening is actually really there!
Oracle seems serious with its plan to enter the 'database hardware' business. This is recent announcement made by its CEO -- Larry Ellison -- in a characteristically truly Oracle style. With this, let's watch and see how computing landscape might transformatively change into the future.
Seems the battle of the smartphone heating up stonger everyday. Similar to what happen to netbook vs ultra-thin-netbook battle, eventually smartphone market might be divided into high-end 'ultrathin' smartphone, versus the mass-consumable netphone (which offer similar functionalities at cheaper price -- just like what the android phone does today).
As of now, it is too early to say who will eventually dominate the marketplace. Nobody know yet whether the ultra-thin smartphone or the mass-consumable 'netphone' which would eventually become the winner. However, from seeing new smartphone offerings emerging very quickly in the marketplace, it might not be considered too 'optimistic' to assume that year 2010 might be the year when netphone vs. ultramodern-smartphone competition will heat up in a major way. As such: year 2010 might be the timeframe when we will start seeing the initial indication of who (a.k.a which brand) would potentially become the de-facto-winner of this competition; as well as to be able to predict (or see) whether these two opposing business-model will eventually morph and merge into 'one', or will remain separate for the following years to come. Because of these important change and transformation, I guess Q4 of 2009 as well as Q1 until Q4 of the year 2010 -- in regards with smartphone market -- would be a very interesting to follow, watch and see. By doing that, we might be able to eventually 'see' who would start dominating smartphone market to be; and what smartphone form factor and model that would be very popular and successful in the marketplace. Such valuable insight would been proven very very powerful and useful.
As predicted, the best form of synergy for Oracle's acquisition on Sun Microsystems will be in the form of establishing machine (or appliances) that will combine hardware and software seamlessly for business purpose.
On September 15, Oracle's Larry Ellison will start introducing the world's first OLTP database machine. It would be interesting to see what kind of 'next generation machines' that Oracle will come up with, and how the database competition and business will stack-up and transform in the future. Seems we are 'back' to the era of the 'mainframe', whereby hardware and software is once again integrated in one package. The 'only difference' is: now software and services -- instead of the hardware -- take the center stage. What an amazing transformation!The future of newspaper is digital. And with that will come totally new way of how people, community and society would produce/consume information, and the way they would act and interact to each other around such info.
Above transformation is probably not something that traditional 'paper-based' newspaper will be ready to embrace immediately. Nor would it become something that they wanted to transform immediately too. Nevertheless, like it or not, such change and transformation will happen and it will come true. As such, the old media must decisively act and decide. They got no time to waste. They must make their own change and transformation happen immediately and decisively; before it would already become too late for them to survive, nor to recover.
In the age of innovation, every nation had to establish innovation as its core foundation, unless it will fail to prosper.
In this book John Kao describes the essence and foundational structure of innovation process; and describe his key thoughts of how innovation framework for a nation could look like.
So far, this is the most convincing picture of how an Apple Tablet later on will look like.
You might want to try the new facebook lite. While the functionality is not (yet) as complete as facebook 'pro', the tremendous speed that facebook-lite bring gives hope for an even better, simpler, and lighter facebook of the future!
You can give it a try by typing http://lite.facebook.com/ on your browser.
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