“There are two types of companies: those that work hard to charge customers more, and those that work hard to charge customers less. Both approaches can work. We are firmly in the second camp.”
– Jeff Bezos, CEO, Amazon.com
“There are two types of companies: those that work hard to charge customers more, and those that work hard to charge customers less. Both approaches can work. We are firmly in the second camp.”
– Jeff Bezos, CEO, Amazon.com
Updated – It’s a bad time to be in charge. Lots of major companies have dropped CEOs for unpleasant causes in 2010-11:
Company | Person | Why They’re Gone |
Apple | Steve Jobs | http://zeke.ws/ogcSIO |
BP | Tony Hayward | http://zeke.ws/mUhrNd |
Eric Schmidt | http://zeke.ws/p2N5TL | |
HP | Mark Hurd | http://zeke.ws/pYoID5 |
Léo Apotheker | http://zeke.ws/n3vsbI | |
Nokia | Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo | http://zeke.ws/rgtWOI |
T-Mobile USA | Robert Dotson | http://zeke.ws/oeozcx |
Yahoo! | Carol Bartz | http://zeke.ws/rdzRGI |
Very strange to see the “who’s-who” list of tech – Apple, HP, Google, Nokia, Yahoo! – shaking up their leadership in the same short period.
…But then again, I’d probably rather be a fired CEO than one of the heads of state or government who either resigned or lost their posts amidst human rights outcries and widespread economic instability in 2010-11:
Country | Person | Position | Why They’re Gone |
Chile | Michelle Bachelet | President | http://zeke.ws/psUwPU |
Egypt | Hosni Mubarak | President | http://zeke.ws/nuiJ40 |
Ireland | Brian Cowen | Taoiseach | http://zeke.ws/oT607A |
Japan | Naoto Kan | Prime Minister | http://zeke.ws/pmcECv |
Jordan | Samir Rifai | Prime Minister | http://zeke.ws/nIW8Bu |
Libya | Muammar Gaddafi | Dictator | http://zeke.ws/qulhTp |
South Korea | Chung Un-chan | Prime Minister | http://zeke.ws/oodoP1 |
Syria | Muhammad Naji al-Otari | Prime Minister | http://zeke.ws/qEuFD8 |
Thailand | Abhisit Vejjajiva | Prime Minister | http://zeke.ws/nUfYnT |
Tunisia | Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | President | http://zeke.ws/oDskWY |
United Kingdom | Gordon Brown | Prime Minister | http://zeke.ws/pu9lyQ |
United States | Nancy Pelosi | Speaker of the House | http://zeke.ws/pHUUQv |
Yemen | Ali Abdullah Saleh | President | http://zeke.ws/pXyBf4 |
If it takes the Times $40 million to put a CSS overlay over their text, I have no sympathy for them. The Times’ reporting is unparalleled; their management will be their undoing. Link
eBooks have been a great thing for me- I rarely think to carry a book along with me or have a bag for carrying one, but I always have a smartphone on me, plus an iPad at times. When I was in Spain in 2009, I read a novel on my iPhone that’s over 1000 pages long in paperback form. No, a 3.5″ backlit LCD screen isn’t the nicest reading experience, but I’d like to borrow a saying from the photography world that I believe applies here:
The best way to read a book is the one you have with you.
Man, Apple really means business about that whole freedom from porn on the App Store thing.
Serious business.