I resigned from my cushy and safe corporate job the day after Steve to try and do exactly what he says in this quote. Life is short; you have to take chances.
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The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do."Steve Jobs
Gartner Gets It Wrong With Cloud Quadrant#
Gigaom offers more proof that Gartner is irrelevant. Gartner’s Magic Quadrant has Amazon AWS as a visionary reserving the leader quadrant for Verizon Business & AT&T.
Both strange and disconnected from reality.
Who cares about multitasking on a tablet?
One of BlackBerry’s primary talking points for its Playbook is that multitasking is its major iPad-killing feature. For the average enterprise and home user, I don’t understand how this is a feature that anyone would care about.
Every demo BlackBerry gives usually goes something like this:
- Launch Movie, play it
- Launch eBook Store
- Launch Calculator
- Launch Web Browser
- Switch between the applications to show that they are still running
Without fail, they say something along the lines of “this is true multitasking, we aren’t just freezing the applications in the background.” This, of course, differentiates the Playbook from iOS devices since Apple’s implementation of multitasking will freeze all background applications (save for a few functions such as GPS, music, incoming voip calls, etc).
So the PlayBook user can have a calculator and web browser actively running in the background while they buy a book? This offers nothing more than strain on resources, specifically the battery.
Any company who thinks it can innovate the tablet space by replicating a PC experience has already failed. Microsoft tried this for almost a decade and failed miserably. BlackBerry is on course to repeat history.