Plunge and Squish: Hugo Pinto's Blog

Hi Pedro, You're right regarding profitability be...

2010-05-21T19:19:37.703+01:00

Hi Pedro,

You're right regarding profitability being the best indicator of a company's health.

Nonetheless, Apple must stay relevant to keep up that huge growth - and I believe being the niche player it once was with high-end PC's will make it hard to influence an increasingly silo-ed marketplace.

Fingers crossed.

Hi, cool article and I liked most of it, but you ...

2010-05-21T18:09:05.410+01:00

Hi,

cool article and I liked most of it, but you have parts of your history wrong. In the 80's, Mac lost because it was poorly mis-managed by inferior CEOs. Even with less than 10% of the market share, Apple was a profitable company around 2003.

The growth to $200Bn is of course based on iPod, iPhone and iPad, but the market share of Apple is not an indication of success.

My best indicator for Apple success is the profit margin that they have on each device they sell. Compared to industry peers, it is **huge**. Last quarter it was above 35%...

As for "open" vs "closed", the open is clearly superior in my view, but I'm still waiting for the market to respond to that. For now, they seem perfectly happy to buy the closed, "curated", experience that Apple is selling.

So no matter how many jokes Google makes in their presentations, remember this: Google has 1 successful profitable business - ads; Apple has 3: Macs, IPhone+iPad's, and Media retailer. On all of those Apple is either number one in sales (US, don't know in the rest of the world), or (in the Macs) number 1 in the most expensive categories.

I wouldn't be worried.

Bom, claro que podes nao gostar de nenhuma delas.....

2010-05-21T14:08:11.311+01:00

Bom, claro que podes nao gostar de nenhuma delas... :)

Ois. Tens razao - a minha experiencia de UI's é so...

2010-05-21T14:05:29.123+01:00

Ois. Tens razao - a minha experiencia de UI's é sobretudo baseada nos HTC... vou clarificar no artigo.

O que e que queres dizer com "Android's interface"...

2010-05-21T13:58:48.837+01:00

O que e que queres dizer com "Android's interface"? User interface ou API? E' que user interfaces ha muitas, HTC, Motorola, Samsung e Sony Ericsson pelo menos criaram as sua proprias UI's...

OK We are now in the last third of October and the...

2008-10-21T04:27:00.000+01:00

OK We are now in the last third of October and there hasn't been an update. Can you please just acknowledge that things are running behind?

Silence is more disheartening than saying you are late

I have been anxiously awaiting the release of Jaip...

2008-10-05T13:07:00.000+01:00

I have been anxiously awaiting the release of Jaiphon. Any chance we can get an update?

I know complex software projects tend to run late, but I wanted to point out that http://www.jaiphon.com still mentions september?

Any news on jaiPhone ? Half of the september is go...

2008-09-15T14:24:00.000+01:00

Any news on jaiPhone ? Half of the september is gone and there are no updates on the project, which is now due in 14 days for forst release. This is not a good sign...

waiting to see a demo :)

2008-08-30T22:41:00.000+01:00

waiting to see a demo :)

Hi!You're absolutely right! Fortunately, we have a...

2008-08-29T13:08:00.000+01:00

Hi!

You're absolutely right! Fortunately, we have a team a bit larger than one :) - and, we're investing heavily into having a demoable product in the next few weeks.

Thanks for your interest and keep in touch.

Hugo

This is really cool. Especially for those of us th...

2008-08-29T08:02:00.000+01:00

This is really cool. Especially for those of us that don't have Apple hardware besides the iPhone. It does sounds like a big project for just one man.

Felicidades e saúde,Amigos Carlos e Ana

2008-08-22T13:08:00.000+01:00

Felicidades e saúde,

Amigos Carlos e Ana

Congratulations to the mom and dad, your baby is b...

2008-07-30T23:05:00.000+01:00

Congratulations to the mom and dad, your baby is beeeeaaaautiful!! Best wishes Sonia

Glad you liked it, Duke. It's always a pleasure to...

2008-07-21T20:37:00.000+01:00

Glad you liked it, Duke.

It's always a pleasure to please the model :)

Best

HJP

Man, she sure made me look good!ROCK ON, JAVA LOVE...

2008-07-21T20:30:00.000+01:00

Man, she sure made me look good!
ROCK ON, JAVA LOVER - I appreciate starting the Java-ffinity at a young age ;]

- Duke

Hi! Thanks for your comment. Curiously, one of our...

2008-07-21T08:18:00.000+01:00

Hi! Thanks for your comment.

Curiously, one of our guys, Bruno Antunes (http://www.jroller.com/bantunes/) has been trying to get in touch with them in the last few days.

The technology looks very interesting. Still, I believe that for it to work they'll either have to a) target jailbroken iPhones (that won't need Apple's permission to install any app) or b) really approach Apple in order to strike some sort of agreement that allows your application to be made available on the App Store.

In sum: I believe they have the potential, IF they have already realized that although their technology has what it takes to be way cool, this is essentially a business problem that must be solved directly with Apple.

But that's a big IF. :)

Cheers,

Hugo

Interesting blog.What do you think of chances of s...

2008-07-21T02:30:00.000+01:00

Interesting blog.

What do you think of chances of success for products like alchMo for iPhone to catch on if there is no direct support of JVM on iPhone?