Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" A platform is essentially a business model that thrives because of the participation and value added from third parties with only incremental effort from the owner of the platform. "

Related Quotes:

" Apple has always been, and always will be, a hardware-first company. It produces beautiful devices with elegant designs and humane operating-system software. "

Om Malik

Always

Apple

Will

" Sure, Google's and Apple's ecosystems look a little different, but they are meant to do pretty much the same thing. For the two companies, innovation on mobile essentially means catching up to the other's growing list of features. "

" A lot of what people are calling 'artificial intelligence' is really data analytics - in other words, business as usual. If the hype leaves you asking 'What is A.I., really?,' don't worry, you're not alone. "

" As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day. "

" If you're texting a friend about dinner, Google will give you restaurant reviews and directions automatically. "

" Pokemon Go, which involves trying to 'catch' Pikachu or Squirtle or other creatures with your smartphone, is an inherently social experience. You need to be walking around - on the streets, in public places - to catch the Pokemon. "

" In the digital realm, companies are free from the friction of producing physical goods, and as a result, we see companies like Google go from zero dollars in revenues to billions at a much faster rate. "

Om Malik

Digital

Free

" I want fewer interruptions in my day. I have eliminated a lot of things from my life. I'm on a declining scale of wanting things. "

" For a while, I have had this theory that we, as a society, are coming to the end of the mass production, industrial phase of the human race. "

" I love my paper and ink, but I see the benefits of the iPad and Apple Pencil. "

" Google came of age when search was inefficient and cluttered, and made it simple and easy to find what you wanted online. "

" By now, we all know that our every move online can be tracked and traced, and that, ideally, services learn from and adapt to customers based on an artful deployment of that data. "

" As an online journalist, newswire journalist, newspaper writer, I wrote every day. My whole thing was, 'I have to write and report and write every day.' That was my thing. "

" Our ubiquitous mobile access has made time and location important data points in how businesses can now be built and managed. "

" When I see Kickstarter, I don't see a company. Instead, I see a social movement. I see people doing things for people. "

" Compared to Apple, Internet companies like Google and Facebook don't have strong perspectives on the way they want the world to work. "

" Twitter is short-form, real-time, and text-based. It's built for instant alerts and rapid consumption. It is an ideal system for delivering sips of information from an abundant stream. "

" Facebook has gone from a nice-and-boring social network to becoming an identity layer of the web. It is where nearly a billion people are depositing the artifacts of civilization in the 21st century - photos, videos, and birthday wishes. "

" The lens through which I view the media world is pretty simple: If you are in the business of sucking up attention, then you are in the media business. "

" Why don't we face up to the fact that many of us in Silicon Valley are living lives that involve telling ourselves a lot of lies. "

" Finding your soul begins by discovering our ability to listen! Alternatively, by sharing a smile, a laugh and just by being human to everyone - from friends, colleagues, family, and especially strangers, including those who are not from the same station in life as you. "

" When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so powerful that the company name has become a verb. "

" There's only one way to succeed: Show up, work hard, and do everything right. Regardless of who you might be or what kind of job you may have. "

" In 1947, Porsche began work on its 356. In many ways, it was like the original iPhone. It wasn't perfect. It was underpowered. But it was streamlined and aerodynamic. "

Om Malik

iPhone

Original

" Writing works when publications are writing and serving the best interest of their users; numbers are good yardstick but not a way to compensate a person. "

" Uber, like Google, is taking a highly disorganized business - in its case, private transportation such as taxicabs and private limousines - and ordering it neatly. "

" People pay little attention to banner ads - in fact, everyone dislikes them - and that leads to infinitesimally small click-through rates that make marketers unhappy. "

" Apple continues to make ever-thinner devices with a superlative build and a luxurious feel. What the company has achieved beneath the surface is worth even more praise. "

" Ideally, Facebook would take all our clicks and information and would magically give us everything we want, without us even knowing we want it. "

" Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new? "