Individuals and businesses are always trying to find ways to increase their level of success. This drive and will to succeed leaves folks scouring around trying to find advanced methods to foster success. This search for success leads to trying many of the latest greatest ideas from their industry.
Some will try a new idea a month, others will come back from a conference and implement ten new ideas and some may make drastic changes as a result of an article or book they’ve read.
Some of the greatest success stories and brands that other’s are trying to mimic are built on a couple of good ideas. Not 5, 10 or 20, but rather a couple of good ideas. As a consultant I’ve had the opportunity to work with organizations ranging from Fortune 100 Corporations to Personal Brands. No matter who I’m working with, my goal is to help organizations and individuals come up with and implement couple of good ideas.
If you want to succeed and you want your brand to be successful, stop trying to come up with a million ideas and simply devise and implement a couple good ideas.
Apparently the iPhone Siri has been hacked or maybe another word for it is a Siri Proxy has been developed by @Plamoni aka Pete Lamonica. Siri can now be used to start your car, unlock you car and do about anything else a remote control can do. It’s crazy that we are only years away from being the Jetson’s. If you would like to learn more about the Siri Proxy, you can read a complete interview with the hacker inventor himself by clicking here.
What do you think? What are some future things that you would like to see Siri be able to do?
This is a great 60 minutes interview with Walter Isaacson, the author of Steve Jobs autobiography. There are some great nuggets from Steve Jobs’ life, family, style and some crazy cool twists and turns. Then end of the interview focuses on how the iPad has changed the lives of families of and individuals living with autism. Really Good Stuff!
This is a great video and reminder of an iconic figure whose legend lives on. As a matter of fact I’m typing this post on some distant version of the 1984 computer that Steve Jobs introduces in this video.
Outside of the people yelling and screaming for the introduction of this product. The one thing in this video that I really liked was the simple 2 word cursive writing that showed on the screen. The words were simply Insanely Great! One thing is certain, Mac and iAnything are all insanely great.
Below (Video #2) is the video for the iPhone 4s which is being released this Friday. There are some cool additions to the iPhone 4s including: The dual-core A5 chip, 8MP camera with all-new optics also shoots 1080p HD video, iCloud, Retina Display and the highly anticipated voice recognition personal assistant Siri.
Siri is actually ridiculously amazing and is the feature that I’m anticipating the most, the unusual thing is that this feature has been around the App store for some time now. Yes Siri was a start-up company that featured a voice recognition, personal assistant app. The app quickly gained notoriety and the rest is a part of Apple history.
Apple Inc. acquired Siri Inc. just a few months after the start-up’s voice-activated personal-assistant program launched in the App Store. Apple’s purchase was originally confirmed Robert Scoble aka “Scobleizer” who theorized that the Cupertino, Calif., company might have paid about $200 million to purchase Siri. Previously, Scoble had declared that Siri was “the future of the Web.” You can check out Siri’s original promo video in (Video #1) below, pretty similar to Apple’s, however Apple’s is better. Great companies move things from good to great.
If you can’t invent it — buy it. I remember reading this old Steve Jobs quote that may speak to Apple’s purchase of Siri. Jobs said this, “We’ve demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don’t let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don’t allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we’d like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.” With the iPhone 4s having record pre-sales, many due to Siri — I guess you could say that Siri is one of those strategic opportunities for the future.
Oh and if you were one of the lucky folks to have previously downloaded Siri, enjoy it while it lasts. You only have a couple of more days to enjoy it. It has been removed from the App Store and will be removed from all non iPhone 4s devices on October 15th. Existing Siri Customers are receiving messages like the one shown below in (Image 1).
The Legend of Steve Jobs. They should change the Siri female voice to Steve Jobs’ voice and change the name of the technology to Steve instead of Siri. ”Hi this is Steve, How May I Help You?”
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Will you be grabbing the iPhone 4s? Is Siri your primary reason for the upgrade?Share your thoughts on Apple’s approach to Siri and it’s existing App owners.
Steve Jobs was a a brilliant innovator and iconic CEO. He will be remembered for the many contributions that he has made to culture via Apple inventions. Below are 15 Steve Jobs Quotes from over the years that he can also be remembered for.
Top 15 Steve Jobs Quotes:
1. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. ~Steve Jobs
2. Design is not what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. ~Steve Jobs
3. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ~Steve Jobs
4.A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them. ~Steve Jobs
5. You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. ~Steve Jobs
6. 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
7. One of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex. ~Steve Jobs
8. Picasso had a saying: ‘Good artists copy, great artists steal.’ We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas… ~Steve Jobs
9. There’s nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the UK and tells me the story about how it’s the coolest product they’ve ever brought home in their lives. That’s what keeps me going. ~Steve Jobs
10. No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. ~Steve Jobs
11. I have looked at myself in the mirror every morning and asked myself, ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ and whenever the answer is ‘no’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. ~Steve Jobs
12. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that’s what I try to do. ~Steve Jobs
13. Why join the navy if you can be a pirate? ~Steve Jobs
14. Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. ~Steve Jobs
15. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. ~Steve Jobs
People will remember not only the quotes that you say, but the quotes that you live. How will you be remembered?
Share your favorite Steve Jobs quotes from this list or others.
If you have not seen this Apple commercial, it’s definitely worth your time – especially on the eve of Steve Jobs’ passing. I have been inspired by this commercial for years, I talk about it in my book, my mantra of dream BIG. think BIGGER. has a kindred spirit. Thinking different is where it’s at.
Steve Jobs helped us to Think Different… he helped to move a generation to think beyond what is, to what could be. dream BIG. think BIGGER.
Today is the highly anticipated release of the iPhone 5, or at-least that’s what I’ve been told. As I was in the air at about 30,000 ft. in route to NY, I decided to send Apple a Txt Msg. Maybe since I was in the iClouds they will receive the text. Sometimes you just think about things that make you go hmm.
Will you be getting the iPhone 5? Can you relate to my text msg.?
Individuals and businesses are always trying to find ways to increase their level of success. This drive and will to succeed leaves folks scouring around trying to find advanced methods to foster success. This search for success leads to trying many of the latest greatest ideas from their industry.
