Apple launches ResearchKit – secure, private, open source medical research
Apple announced a new initiative at its Spring Forward event yesterday – ResearchKit. What is ResearchKit? Apple’s SVP of Operations, Jeff Williams, described it as a framework for medical researchers to create and deploy mobile apps which collect and share medical data from phone users (with their permission), and share it with the researchers. Why […]
Wearables Revolution
The wearables market heated up last week with Apple’s introduction of its Watch and payment processing service and the implications for CRM are interesting. First off the announcement shows how very young the wearables marketplace is and how far it has to go. Second, even though wearables are by nature devices intimately connected to us […]
But Wait, There’s More
A second article in the Times (following up on yesterday’s reporting on Apple’s smart Watch) says Apple has been oh-so-smart to produce a developer’s kit so that the market can decide the killer app for the device. Killer app here is code for justifying the product’s purchase in the first place. All hardware goes through […]
Where’s the Soul of These Tiny New Machines?
I can’t be sure if Apple jumped the shark or not. Introducing the long awaited iPhone 6 and Watch wearable device made me do a lot of thinking. First the iPhone. iPhone They obviously need some better naming conventions to describe the bigger and biggest iPhones and ideally the naming should come from the suitability […]
Broken Cloud
Trust is a cornerstone of the Apple brand… the company that pioneered the notion of “the stuff just works”. The damage the brand has suffered this week is yet to be calculated and the “hey it’s not our fault, users should manage passwords better” statement didn’t help. All this a week to the day before […]
Apple Killjoy
There are so many amazingly positive visuals of Apple. Customers leaping for joy after they have lined for hours outside a store for their new device. My kids when we traded their Blackberries for iPhones. My kids and wife when they traded their Windows laptops for MacBooks (I am sole Windows holdout in the household). […]
The move to “rich” mobile apps
Many enterprise vendors and customers view mobile UI as just another more convenient portal to their back end processes. A growing number of companies are, however, building “rich” mobile apps to get more face time with their customers and even using their apps to reengineer their processes to delight their customers. Here are some examples […]
Forget the Poor, Build it for the 1%
There are some very interesting startups that are taking the technology to the masses and solving problems for the bottom of the pyramid. The mobile phone has allowed innovations like mCommerce to reach banking and healthcare where not earlier possibl…
The Wisdom of Being Safe
I was reading this article on the wave of executive departures at HTC on the heals of a successful product, the HTC One, and a clearly unsuccessful launch of the HTC First. The reporting is actually good and highlights the phenomena of the death spiral that many in Silicon Valley are familiar with, as influential […]
10 Ways Cloud Computing Is Revolutionizing Manufacturing
The best manufacturers I’ve visited this year all share a common attribute: they are obsessed with making themselves as easy as possible to work with from a supply chain, distribution and services standpoint. Many are evaluating cloud-based manufacturing applications including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and several have adopted cloud-based applications across their companies. With so much interest, […]
