I’ve often thought I would do a [tag]Top 100 songs[/tag] list like in [tag]Broken Prey[/tag] from [tag]Sanford[/tag], but I haven’t. I would have a different list. Thanks to the [tag]usa series[/tag] [tag]Psych[/tag], I just realized that Nena and [tag]99 Luft Balloons[/tag] may actually make the [tag]top 25[/tag].
So here’s your 4 minutes of productivity impact from the 80’s.
“Customers aren’t going to have an issue with this price move.”
Clearly Apple didn’t overlook this fact, it has become a holiday promotional activity. This is like a captain obvious situation for a promotional event! So Apple has effectively created a $100 coupon for a holiday purchase (additional iTunes, a new laptop….).
Apple has essentially created a compelling market event to purchase more Apple stuff. More people on the iPhone may help establish apple as a new mobile computing leader and people that may have been just been introduced to the Apple brand, will need to spend more in-store. A n typically spend beyond the credit, I’ve always spent more money than I have ever had on a gift card. Store credit/Gift cards are just a catalyst for incremental spend.
This also increases the consumers investment into the Apple platform guaranteeing an increased share of wallet within the iPhone community across the product porfolio.
It benefits both Apple and every iPhone user to get as many new customers as possible in the iPhone ‘tent’. We strongly believe the $399 price will help us do just that this holiday season….
Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store.
More people with iPhones will extend the apple platform and drive an i-centric application developer community. Apple has the opportunity to be the “on-the-go OS” for the next generation of computing. This market seeding event will help justify AT&T’s upgrade which is sorely needed for high speed wireless.
to balance the thought a little – another view below from bold investors friday round up:
I give AAPL a thumbs up and advice people to buy Apple shares AAPL while its still down since Wall st. simply gets it wrong, as American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu thinks the price cut on 8GB iPhones to $399 from $599 to be both positive and necessary.
“We have had reservations with its high price point and are glad to see Apple address this problem,” he explained. “In addition, we believe this lower price is necessary to reduce cannibalization with the new iPod touch, which is essentially a thinner iPhone without the cell phone, e-mail, and Bluetooth.”
So every day I have something to [tag]blog about[/tag], but I don’t always have the time. So I just put down notes and hope I come back. I have like 7 years of post content, but it will take me 49.3 years to get it done. Guess I need to prioritize better.
The only upside I see is, at least I’m not tricking myself into thinking I’m almost ready to [tag]write a book[/tag].
A good amount of people in most workplaces work a real day’s work, but there are few/a small handful that believe being a pass-thru entity who provides verbose email updates qualify as work. The visualist is mainly focused on visibility and will eagerly sign up for any action. That’s when the real fun starts.
FAST FORWARD: Meeting end +30 minutes: The visualist stops by the office and meanders his/her way to a discussion on “who might know this” or “who might know that” or “who could”. After the information is divulged in a way that he or she can comprehend – they disappear – so they’re kinda magician’s as well.
Action item due time -30 minutes: Visualist stops by and plays back their assessments of the status, asks for input and thoughts around next steps. You give it up and – WHOOSH – gone like a phantom.
Status Meeting -12 minutes: Some how in the time you chatted a 3 page missive is sent which is effectively only 3 bullets of update, 2 bullets of next steps and a bunch of “here’s how tough it was” and “thanks to xxxx”. Ah the visualist value add – bloated communication, kudos and poor word choice.
Meeting: He or she boastfully brings in their update printed and reads it, like they aren’t sure they know it outside of the script.
So the fun part with this type of self-proclaimed leader starts when you go for the details. Go into the details, he or she will need to publicly engage the person who did the work or state they need to follow up with the work doer for additional validation and clarity, after fumbling towards an answer.
The other slightly mean thing to do is to send them off to the wrong people, this only works with short deadlines. Or goof with them on next steps… So while the stuck series speaks to leadership and middle management influence, the visualist is typically a climber who believes they are a leader. I mean they typically are in the office early.
These people typically think note taking and action management with the leadership is leadership. Some time’s note taking is just note taking. Typically these peoples ego’s will provide a quick burn from which only a phoenix will rise.
