People are focusing on the wrong thing when analyzing Apple's path forward in the face of slowing iPhone sales.
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People are focusing on the wrong thing when analyzing Apple's path forward in the face of slowing iPhone sales.
Apple Pivot, Will We Care
Agree. Apple is looking for another disruption not looking to milk iPhone / iPad sales. And this is an understatement:
"I suspect most of this has been due to the fact that Apple does not draw attention to its product pipeline and long-term strategy, choosing instead to embrace secrecy and mystery. "
Open vs. Closed
The bigger question, for us, is the OPEN vs. CLOSED question. Apple hasn't made friends in the developer community. Sure we bend, scrape, plead and cry to have apps accepted, but the taste left with us is sour and painful.
Android is trying to tighten standards having played, "Come One, Come All" a tad too loudly, but Apple is fickle and a pain. Yes it is good to be KING, but no one is KING of anything lasting that doesn't also inspire loyalty, trust and love.
Most of the developers I know, even the ones who are rich thanks to Apple's app store, don't look forward to wrestling with Apple again. Some have achieved "trusted" status now, but they remember the blood and tears it took to get there.
So note to Google, never tighten to the point where your tightening feels or seems capricious and mean. Apple has seemed capricious and mean to several developer friends who requested to remain nameless. Were they scared Apple might make a horrible process even harder? You bet.
Apple is testimony to the power of "insanely great". NO ONE jumps through the seemingly arbitrary hoops Apple is known for unless "insanely great" is attached. I'm a huge Apple fan and have been since buying the Apple II back in the day.
Lately I've caught myself wondering if the OVER (what I gain by being an Apple supporter) is worth the UNDER (what it takes to remain loyal). That is a conversation NO BRAND wants their customers to begin EVER since all the negative things leaving brings follows.
The watch left me cold. I rarely wear watches anymore, but when I do I want something from MoMA and their tiny phone on your wrist looked more Dick Tracy than cool watch (to me). I'm wearing a watch to dinner tonight and it won't be an Apple Watch.
My updated AIR is nothing but a pain. It doesn't fit my hands, the keyword is impossible to tune, and the screen too small. I never use it preferring my old Air (from 6 years ago). I love my iMac with the huge screen (what I'm writing on now), but it too was a failure.
We tried moving my 83-year-old father over to the big Mac screen but accessibility features were a torture and he is a Windows guy and will remain one. My Macbook I like, but it is getting long in the tooth and clunky. My iPad Pro I LOVE and that is taking the place of the new AIR (that I hate) and my MacBook.
Long diatribe, but I share my journey as a note of growing Apple frustration. My new EXPENSIVE Air was a disaster I should have sent back, but I kept thinking it was me. I don't think that way anymore and that can't be good for Apple.
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Power BI is not so much a data visualization tool as it is an end-to-end business intelligence platform that ends with visualizing data. Marco Russo approached this well when he explained the differences between a more robust model-based tool and a narrowly scoped report-based tool. While visualizing data in Power BI may sometimes be a bit…
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The tools of augmented analytics will be able to automatically go through data, clean it up, identify data patterns and trends, present them as a visualization or in natural-language narratives such as “50% of web traffic is middle-aged women from US”, and then convert these insights into actionable steps without professional supervision.
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Hell they had me at, "Clean up".
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Machine learning and Big Data are the first two ways AI will change marketing. Discover the other two by reading this Read Write post.
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At Curagami we agree with all four ideas for how AI will change marketing and are working on a post in response.
Jonathan Long's curator insight,
December 22, 2018 2:32 PM
Machine Learning & Big Data....the future??
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Expanding the search algorithm beyond absolute areas like store hours, locations, and historical facts shifted a system designed to create order into chaos.
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Rather than narrow our definition of impact, we should use metrics to explore richness and diversity of outcomes. Via Mark E. Deschaine, PhD
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Agree, the web is complex. We need metrics that help sort the wheat from the chaff.
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The Mythical Silver Bullet Dashboard
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We don't believe in silver bullets. The web moves too fast. This new dashboard suffers from some of the same "clouding" problems we are all too familiar with, but there's more of it (lol).
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AI & Creativity
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This post does make one think about how "human" tasks will change once automated by AI and robots.
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Revenge of the Nerds
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Cool kids and algorithms are eating the world...what else is new?
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Clutter of Digital Marketing Added a postscript to our Curagami post entitled The Gravity of Digital marketing. Somehow I stumbled over a very cool chart from the "Opte Project" showing the web's density 2003 versus 2010.
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Branding in a Revolution
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People are focusing on the wrong thing when analyzing Apple's path forward in the face of slowing iPhone sales. Via Philippe J DEWOST
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Apple Pivot, Will We Care
Philippe J DEWOST's curator insight,
May 15, 2016 3:57 AM
Drowning by Numbers ; Apple might be surprising us again by opening entirely new product / service categories and they have the resources for doing so.
Juan Ortega's curator insight,
May 20, 2016 4:34 AM
Historia de Apple con número de unidades vendidas de cada producto
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Cool Use of Google Analytics Reports
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Great blow by blow of a creative way to use Google Analytics Reports. Too Good.
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The documentary is being reinvented for virtual reality, but what challenges does this pose to content creators? Via Os Ishmael
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Marty Note Os Note Here's a fascinating article about the problems with virtual reality storytelling and empathy.
Virtual Reality (VR) is all the rage and very popular at SXSW. We know storytelling is a powerhouse for building our empathy muscles. But what is the impact of VR on empathy?
Turns out, it's not what you think.
The aim of VR is to encourage a human connection and understanding between those wearing a headset and the characters in the story.
Problems around empathy rise when certain stories simply generate a feeling of helplessness in the participant that leads to greater detachment -- not greater human connection.
I love what one of those interviewed for the article says near the end: "But the empathy idea presents another problem for me – the notion that the world's problems arise from a scarcity of feeling rather than from issues of power, inequality and exploitation of people and planetary resources." Hear hear.
There are more details and insights to read in this long-very-long post, and it will make you go, "huh".
What do you think about VR, empathy, and this storytelling trend?
Andreas Christodoulou's curator insight,
March 24, 2016 6:12 AM
Marty Note Os Note Here's a fascinating article about the problems with virtual reality storytelling and empathy.
Virtual Reality (VR) is all the rage and very popular at SXSW. We know storytelling is a powerhouse for building our empathy muscles. But what is the impact of VR on empathy?
Turns out, it's not what you think.
The aim of VR is to encourage a human connection and understanding between those wearing a headset and the characters in the story.
Problems around empathy rise when certain stories simply generate a feeling of helplessness in the participant that leads to greater detachment -- not greater human connection.
I love what one of those interviewed for the article says near the end: "But the empathy idea presents another problem for me – the notion that the world's problems arise from a scarcity of feeling rather than from issues of power, inequality and exploitation of people and planetary resources." Hear hear.
There are more details and insights to read in this long-very-long post, and it will make you go, "huh".
What do you think about VR, empathy, and this storytelling trend?
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March 24, 2016 6:28 AM
Marty Note Os Note Here's a fascinating article about the problems with virtual reality storytelling and empathy.
Virtual Reality (VR) is all the rage and very popular at SXSW. We know storytelling is a powerhouse for building our empathy muscles. But what is the impact of VR on empathy?
Turns out, it's not what you think.
The aim of VR is to encourage a human connection and understanding between those wearing a headset and the characters in the story.
Problems around empathy rise when certain stories simply generate a feeling of helplessness in the participant that leads to greater detachment -- not greater human connection.
I love what one of those interviewed for the article says near the end: "But the empathy idea presents another problem for me – the notion that the world's problems arise from a scarcity of feeling rather than from issues of power, inequality and exploitation of people and planetary resources." Hear hear.
There are more details and insights to read in this long-very-long post, and it will make you go, "huh".
What do you think about VR, empathy, and this storytelling trend?
Stephania Savva, Ph.D's curator insight,
March 24, 2016 6:33 AM
Marty Note Os Note Here's a fascinating article about the problems with virtual reality storytelling and empathy.
Virtual Reality (VR) is all the rage and very popular at SXSW. We know storytelling is a powerhouse for building our empathy muscles. But what is the impact of VR on empathy?
Turns out, it's not what you think.
The aim of VR is to encourage a human connection and understanding between those wearing a headset and the characters in the story.
Problems around empathy rise when certain stories simply generate a feeling of helplessness in the participant that leads to greater detachment -- not greater human connection.
I love what one of those interviewed for the article says near the end: "But the empathy idea presents another problem for me – the notion that the world's problems arise from a scarcity of feeling rather than from issues of power, inequality and exploitation of people and planetary resources." Hear hear.
There are more details and insights to read in this long-very-long post, and it will make you go, "huh".
What do you think about VR, empathy, and this storytelling trend? |
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While consultants are keen to tout machine learning (ML) to gain more work, they may find it will ultimately have the opposite effect. As a former consulting leader, I believe ML-based disruption will have a greater impact on consulting than the globalization of work. This is because eliminating work altogether is more disruptive than lowering its cost.
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It’s essential to take some time at the end of every year to assess what’s worked well, what hasn’t, and where you can improve in the new year ahead.
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Jeff's stuff is always helpful and his year-end reporting guide is no exception to that rule.
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Artificial intelligence is booming in Europe, China, and the US, but it’s still a very male industry. Via massimo facchinetti
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AI is self-reinforcing i.e. it makes life easier and thus makes money. Combination of AI with big data, or the use of large blocks of data exposing patterns, will change e-commerce...and everything else.
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Even with publishers grousing about Facebook's shortcomings as a source of revenue and organic traffic, publishers are putting a lot more resources into dark posts, according to Keywee data.
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This report showing publishers buying more Facebook traffic isn't a huge surprise since FB is pushing us in that direction. What is surprising is the apparent efficacy of the spend.
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Blockchains Are Bigger than Bitcoin Blockchains, those distributed, networked, verified and shared transactions, are going to eclipse Bitcoin and blow up how we do business online. Once you know what I know and we all know everything about everyone, a point we are headed toward anyway, imagine what predictive analytics and the Internet of Things can do for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Money is already dead man walking and blockchains promise to kill it the rest of the way - and that's a good thing as we share in this Curagami post.
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Eric Siegel is an expert in predictive analytics and data mining and a former computer science professor at Columbia University, where he won th
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Good video on how big data and predictive analytics should and will live harmoniously together.
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Chatbots Are Coming
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Chatbots and keychains are what's next.
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June 27, 2017 6:53 PM
Get a free crash course on everything chatbots, straight from the experts
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Content & RankBrain What we have here is a failure to communicate. Cool Hand Luke's famous quote applies to SEO and content marketing in the age of a semi-autonomous almost sentient ranking algorithm as this excellent INC post shares.
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Flipboard's Analytics
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These content marketing tools will help you automate and improve the performance of your content marketing strategy.
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Data is a sizzling hot topic these days. Marketers are learning how to use the right information to drive leads and close sales in record time.
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Telling Stories with Data
Data without a story is something only an accountant could love. Data with a story and a few charts, graphis and infographics and anyone can understand, join and help.
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As Google's head of artificial intelligence takes charge of search, deep learning is already changing the way Googling works.
Via Lockall, Andreas Christodoulou
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Read our post on seo life after RankBrain: http://www.curagami.com/google-rankbrain-scorched-earth/
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March 25, 2016 7:33 AM
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Drowning by Numbers ; Apple might be surprising us again by opening entirely new product / service categories and they have the resources for doing so.