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There great new business book, Apple in China, is currently number one on the business bestseller chart. Check out John Stewart’s interview with the author, Patric McGee.   As noted in my review of two-weeks ago, the fast-paced book traces how Apple’s first foray into Asia,… Read More »Apple in China – it all began here

There was a big announcement this week from Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, that his company is buying a device startup called io, launched by former Apple designer Jony Ive, for $6.5 billion. Altman said they will be “figuring out how to create a family… Read More »The Whisper: Imagining the Device Jony Ive and Sam Altman Might Be Building

Throughout my product development career I’ve used Asian resources to supplement the work being done in the U.S. to bring new consumer tech products to market more quickly. When designing cameras at Polaroid in the 80s, I worked with Japanese camera manufacturers. Years later when… Read More »Apple in China – How Apple was captured by China

It’s the time of the year when the rumors begin about the new generations of iPhones due out in the Fall and whether it’s worth upgrading to a new model. Let me get to the point. Absolutely not. The iPhone is falling behind in incorporating… Read More »The iPhone upgrade question answered

Low cost manufacturing in China has taken manufacturing jobs from this country, but that doesn’t tell the real story of its economic impact. It misses one of the great benefits of China manufacturing: by being able to have China produce products at lower costs, it… Read More »How China manufacturing has actually created American jobs

Newark’s recent air corridor failures are not just about radar outages or overworked air traffic controllers. They’re about something much bigger — the convergence of negligence, performative politics, and Silicon Valley hubris. What was it’s cause? There is blame to go around: the gutting of… Read More »Don’t let the doges in

It’s the time of the year when the rumors begin about the new generations of iPhone 17 due out in the Fall and whether it’s worth upgrading to a new model. It’s a ritual that began ever since Apple introduced their iPhones eighteen years ago.… Read More »iPhones are becoming boring

Throughout my career in product development I’ve used Asian resources to supplement the work being done in the U.S. to bring new consumer tech products to market more quickly. When I worked at Polaroid in the 80s designing cameras, I used companies in Japan that… Read More »Apple in China, the story of Apple’s capture by China

Low cost manufacturing in China has taken manufacturing jobs from this country, but that does not tell the entire story about the economic impact it has had. (Why it happened and what can be done about it is a column in itself.) That viewpoint misses… Read More »The false economics of China manufacturing