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I've been thinking a little more about the issues of cannibalisation of revenue sources that cloud produces for traditional software vendors. I noted that Apple seem to be coping well with the way in which iPhone appears to be eating into the sales of iPod, but of course this is a classic example of an … Continue reading Mastering the downsell

Apple's quarterly results announced today noted one mildly grey spot amongst the (again) record figures - sales of iPod dropped by 7%. It's not surprising really. As more and more people move to smartphones (and iPhones in particular) the need for dedicated music players becomes less compelling. Personally I haven't used an MP3 player for … Continue reading Cannibal instincts

Project achievements this week included: - Short, short listing on the managed print service project - Review of the project programme list with the Group FD - Sign off on the final elements of the London networks project - Agents in place for licence inventory reporting - Deployment approaches for AD project agreed (ish) - … Continue reading Weeknote 33: back after a brief hiatus

We live today in an almost incomprehensibly complicated world. Next week I am going to be visiting the United States. When I send an email from my BlackBerry whilst there it will depend on ast least the following things: - the device's battery - the BlackBerry OS and mail app - no other app on … Continue reading The death of SLAs

My observations yesterday about the new Mac App Store reminded me of a concept that I've been bandying around for a few years now of the Personal Computing Allowance. In the way in which many organisations pay a car allowance to eligible staff from which the staff can choose how to provide for their transport … Continue reading Personal computing allowance

I had a bit of a twitter conversation last week with @joetierney about how Mac OS is expensive to support in a corporate environment. Part of the cost lies in the purchase price (and the disadvantages of dealing with a single supplier) but as we all should know by now (but too often forget) the … Continue reading Mac App Store

An observation from conferences in recent months. Lots of people, when describing Cloud computing, reference the Gartner hype curve, and adopt a lightly sneery voice as they say that Cloud has reached the top of that curve. The sneer indicates that the speaker knows that we've seen all this before, and, hey, the world doesn't … Continue reading Don't believe the hype (curve)

So we find ourselves at January 6th before I've been able to compose my first blog entry of 2011. You can put that down to the arrival of my second son Milo, and the fact that any spare time I have had in the past few weeks has been profitably spent aimlessly staring at walls, … Continue reading Generations

It's that time of year... here are a few reflections on 2010. The year that Imagination went into the Cloud I've spoken way too much about this, but there is probably a whole load more to come because, kids, Cloud is the future. Gone The year the world went tablety Hard to believe now, but … Continue reading Yearnote 2010

Horrible self indulgence, this, but below is a summary of media coverage I've had in 2010. https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1n-0i8dLZSeoTGrl8fcBWkvxcCeB5lKOu0z-eLgolrKM&embedded=true