Apple TV is already outselling the competition

Man, oh man — Apple is going to crush it when they come out with an completely integrated “iTV”. Look at what they did to mp3 players, cell phones, the music industry, and the tablet market. Once they put their mind to it, they crush the competition is seemingly every vertical they tackle.

If I were Sony, Hitachi, Panasonic, JVC, or any other television manufacturer on the planet?

I would be scared shitless.

Because MacBook Air’s ROCK.

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But compared to these guys (3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles), I was never even on the move..

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[via Amber Rae]

It’s unfortunate a few people ruin the whole game for everyone. Software patents wouldn’t be a horrible thing if people didn’t abuse them and use them as their entire revenue model rather than actually building a business themselves.

I found this via via Chris Brogan’s tweet. Interesting to think about the prospects of a totally bare bones computer for as little as $25.

[via RTWDave]

[via BusinessPundit]

Yea, hackers are the wrong people to piss off if you care about your website staying online.

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ATT fail if you ask me. I tried logging in twice, but no luck.

I’m clearly not smart enough to figure this type of thing out; I guess I’ll just keep on trying to make a few bucks blogging and let the smart people worry about technology like self-driving cars.

I’ll be the first to admit I absolutely love my Kindle. But there is a feature that is seriously missing from it — particularly since it has WIFI built in. I want to be able to instantly publish an excerpt, possibly with a few thoughts of my own, to my blog and have that post link to the book with my Amazon affiliate code for those who may want to purchase it. It seems a quick and easy way for Amazon to allow their Kindle Users to spread the word about both Kindle’s and all the great books available on them at the same time.

Or maybe they don’t need ideas like this since the Kindle is currently sold out.

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By the way, thank you to my good friend Andrew Mattie at Diverse Solutions for pushing me to purchase one prior to starting my travels back in May.

“Because of having that electronic device, people have an expectation that they can do something stupid and be rescued,” said Jackie Skaggs, spokeswoman for Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

Come on people – grow a brain. Just because you’re a geek with toys doesn’t mean you are invincible.

Consider a small slice of history. When Steve Jobs was searching for his own replacement after his first tenure as Apple’s CEO, he audaciously said to the front-running candidate, then-Pepsi CEO John Sculley: “Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?”

Perhaps, today, I might gently ask the same question of Steve: “do you really want to spend the rest of your life selling slicker gadgets, or do you want take this chance to change the world radically for the better?”

The future of capitalism isn’t about making prettier, cooler gizmos every year; it’s not about helping sell more movies, music, or apps. It’s about building revolutionary companies, countries, and economies: those that are hardwired to do meaningful stuff that matters the most, and begin making up for the industrial age business-as-usual’s glaring shortcomings; those that can fuel a more authentic prosperity instead.

If the first bullet point on the agenda of 21st century capitalism is discovering a higher purpose for the economy, the second might be said to be building high-impact organizations — those that can change the world radically for the better. Because when you think about it, that’s what’s really scarce.