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Fourth quarter mobile phone industry overview
Jan 31, ’11
1:27 PM
The following chart shows the units, sales and profit shares for the top eight phone vendors.
Of Platforms, Operating Systems and Ecosystems
Jan 31, ’11
12:00 AM
In the earnings Q&A Stephen Elop used the word ‘Platform’ once, ‘Operating System’ three times and ‘Ecosystem’ 15 times.
Though they seem interchangeable, the three phrases have significant differences in meaning. Briefly put, a Platform is a business model concept, an OS is a technology concept and an Ecosystem is a marketing concept.
Platform
A platform, as the New York Times recently pointed out, can take many forms.
Steve Jobs on Apple’s priorities
Jan 30, ’11
4:38 PM
To me, Apple exists in the spirit of the people that work there, and the sort of philosophies and purpose by which they go about their business. So if Apple just becomes a place where computers are a commodity item and where the romance is gone, and where people forget that computers are the most incredible invention that man has ever invented, then I’ll feel I have lost Apple. But if I’m a million miles away and all those people still feel those things and they’re still working to make the next great personal computer, then I will feel that my genes are still in there.
Jobs Talks About His Rise and Fall – Print – Newsweek
In the language of innovation theory that Clayton Christensen created, companies are characterized by three attributes
- Resources
- Processes
- Values (or Priorities)
Resources come and go, typically arriving every morning and leaving every evening.
Processes take a lot of hard work to change but they can be changed.
Values and priorities are almost immutable. They are what Jobs refers to as the “genes”.
The fact that Steve Jobs said these words about Apple in 1985 after his first departure gives one hope that in 2011 (after his return and departure and return and departure again) the genes are still in there.
Stephen Elop’s ecosystem messages
Jan 28, ’11
9:51 PM
Yesterday I made my predictions on Nokia’s new platform strategy. They should be treated as pure guesswork, but they are informed guesses. I based them on public information.
That information comes in the form of statements from Nokia’s CEO at the earnings call. I made a table of all the statements that dealt with platform decisions and my interpretations of those statements.
You may do your own interpretation, but to me there is significant evidence here to support my predictions.
