I get so annoyed when the only insight a tech reporter can write about in a product category is market share. Who the hell cares? Of course, lots of people do. But they’re misguided. I believe that market share is just not very relevant to anything these days in most product categories. Tech, being a [...]
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August 25, 2011
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Like a great magician, Steve is leaving the stage before the rest of us have truly figured out how he did it.
By Craig Fitzpatrick in BusinessYesterday was a sad day in tech. Steve Jobs stepping down kinda through me into an hour of reflection about my own career and lessons I’ve learned over the years – many of which gleaned from watching Apple’s meteoric comeback over the last 10 years. It truly is a rise-from-the-ashes story. Any business person who [...]
August 18, 2011
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Don’t Pre-engineer, Re-engineer.
By Craig Fitzpatrick in Business, Managing Software ProjectsIt’s been a long time since I’ve written an article about anything. This topic inspired me of late. So often in the software biz, we the engineers, get tempted to lay down the ground work for something we think may happen in the future. Whether it be optimizing for performance and scale (because OBVIOUSLY everyone [...]
August 12, 2011
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Zombie Competition
By Craig Fitzpatrick in BusinessWhen we think of competition in a marketplace, most good little free-market capitalists (like myself) would say that it’s a good thing. And while you’d never catch me saying that competition ISN’T a good thing, lately I’ve been noticing different kinds of competition – some good, some bad. In the early days of a market’s [...]
