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Apple's SaaS: Software as a Soul | TechCrunch. Over the weekend, The New York Times ran a piece entitled Lessons in Longevity, From IBM. In it, author Steve Lohr looks back at the past 100 years of IBM and points out the keys to their longevity: shifting and adapting to new markets and times. He then lays how three tech powers today — Microsoft, Google, and Apple — may make similar moves to weather the inevitable storms.At a high level, the parallels make some sense for Microsoft, and to a lesser extent, Google. They make no sense for Apple.Microsoft and Google, as Lohr points out, are hugely successful companies right now. But their businesses have potential points of weakness because almost all of their money comes from one or two areas. In Google's case, the one area is search advertising. In Microsoft's, it's Windows and Office (the Server division makes a good amount of money, as Lohr notes, but it's peanuts compared to the two towers).Lohr says that Microsoft up-and-coming gaming division could eventually be a key to saving them. And for Google, it could be Android. Again, this all makes sense (though is hardly anything new).But when it comes to Apple, Lohr loses it. First of all, Lohr talks about IBM's near-failure in the 1990s, but completely leaves out the fact that Apple too almost went under in the same time frame. In fact, they were much closer to death. Then Steve Jobs came back and — we all know the story.The key is that Apple, as?successful?as they are right now, has already had to reinvent themselves. And they did it with stunning success. In fact, their reinvention has been more successful than IBM's most recent reinvention. It's just that Apple is not 100 years old. Nor is their?metamorphosis?something that any other company in the tech world (and perhaps beyond) is likely to be able to replicate anytime soon. And in fact, Apple's metamorphosis is still ongoing.And that leads to point two.In remarking on the same article earlier today, Daring Fireball's John Gruber tears into Lohr's assertion that Apple's hardware business could be easily "mimicked". Specifically, he questions if?Michael A. Cusumano, a professor at MIT that Lohr cites, understands Apple at all when he suggests that Apple in the future will have to shift to software and services to stay alive."I wonder if the professor thinks companies like, say, Rolex and BMW ought to shift to ‘software and services' too?," Gruber writes. He also notes that while Lohr brings up how Macs are still dwarfed in sheer unit sales by Windows PCs, Lohr completely disregards the fact that Apple is now in command in terms of profit share amongst PC-makers.This is something which, comically, is almost always overlooked — even though it's entirely deliberate on Apple's part.I also think that Lohr and Cusumano completely disregard something else important: innovation. As in, while it's certainly possible that "Apple’s product designs, however impressive, will eventually be mimicked and come under price pressure," as?Cusumano suggests, that seems to be assuming Apple stands still and stops innovating in the areas of?hardware design and manufacturing. That's ridiculous.I've been buying Apple products for just about ten years now (yes, that's all). In that entire time, I've yet to see a product by a competitor that matches the build quality and?aesthetic of Apple's products in their major areas of focus (Macs, iPods, iPhones, and now iPads). Not once.I know that sounds like just about the biggest fanboy thing to say… well, ever. But am I wrong? Even Apple haters cannot deny the quality of the products. Bitch about price, bitch about control, bitch about the fruit logo — but quality is simply never a compelling argument. Because Apple wins.That hasn't changed for at least a decade, and some would argue much longer. Why is it going to change all of a sudden? Because the?manufacturing and designing?processes will get cheaper? Sure. For shit products.Competitors have been trying to?mimic?the look and feel of Apple's products for much of this past decade. Guess what happens? They always come up short. We're left with a ton of products that sort of, kind of look like Apple products, but never feel right. They feel like cheap knockoffs. Which is exactly what they are.That's part of the reason why I think Apple's lawsuit against Samsung is silly. Is Samsung trying to mimic Apple's products? Of course they are. Basically everyone is. But I've used a handful of the products Apple names in the lawsuit. And, well, a quote comes to mind."Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."If Apple fired their design teams and kicked Jonathan Ive to the curb, then sure, maybe in a decade competitors would be able to mimic Apple's current designs and build-quality at a lower price that would threaten Apple. But that's not going to happen. At least not anytime soon. And to not even bring up that fact is a slap in the face of what Apple has done in terms of manufacturing innovation and industrial design. Believe it or not, these things are an extremely important part of what makes Apple, Apple.And none of that speaks to the astounding success Apple has had managing their supply chains. Again, there are good reasons that competitors aren't able to copy Apple so easily. Under COO Tim Cook diablo 3 gold, Apple today is perhaps the most well-oiled machine the tech industry has never seen.And there's more.In his WWDC keynote a few weeks ago, Steve Jobs said the following. "You know, if the hardware is the brain and the sinew of our products,?the software in them is their soul."Obviously, he said this because WWDC this year was entirely about software with the unveilings of OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud. But he also said for a much more important reason: Apple actually believes this.Even though they make the vast majority of their money from selling hardware, without software, their great-looking machines would be absolutely worthless. Sure, you could jerry-rig them to run Windows, but then they would just be really expensive PCs. Apple doesn't sell only hardware or only software — they sell the entire package. They sell the experience.This is what the vast majority of their competitors do not understand. By outsourcing their "souls", as it were, to Microsoft for PCs or to Google for phones, they can never do what Apple does.One big?exception?may be HP. Despite their?denials?that they're in the process of transforming their own business to be more like Apple's, they are well, transforming their business to be more like Apple's. With webOS now in place, they control the software (at least outside of PCs for now — but soon those too) and the hardware (not Apple-level yet, but you can be sure they're working on it). Will that transformation work? Maybe. Maybe not. But give them credit for trying. At the very least, they seem to get it.So when Lohr and?Cusumano suggest that Apple may one day survive as a company that relies on software like iCloud to milk money-making opportunities out of things like advertising and marketing, you have to laugh. If anything, more companies are going to attempt to alter their models to be more like Apple's, instead of the other way around.Apple will remain in a position of power for the?foreseeable?future because they have nailed that model. And it is not nearly as easily assailable as the NYT piece suggests.At the same time, Apple will continue to innovate, and yes diablo 3 power leveling, transform themselves. Most of their revenues now come from phones. Ten years ago, that was unthinkable. In another ten years, most of their revenue could come from tablet computers. Or maybe something else no one is thinking about right now.Apple certainly won't be becoming a "software and services" company anytime soon. They follow the "SaaS" model — that is, "Software as a Soul". As in, the software cannot be decoupled from the hardware. They tried that once before. It was a disaster. It led to the near-collapse and subsequently, the complete reinvention that we're seeing now.They won't have to "pull an IBM" because they're already doing it one better.[photo: flickr/confidentjohn] Crunchbase APPLE IBM Company: Apple Website: apple.com Launch Date: January 4, 1976 IPO: October 1, 1980, NASDAQ:AAPL Started by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple has expanded from computers to consumer electronics over the last 30 years, officially changing their name from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc. in January 2007.Among the key offerings from Apple's product line are: Pro line laptops (MacBook Pro) and desktops (Mac Pro), consumer line laptops (MacBook) and desktops (iMac), servers (Xserve), Apple TV, the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server operating systems, the iPod (offered with... Learn more Company: IBM Website: ibm.com Launch Date: October 1, 1896 IPO: NYSE:IBMm IBM, acronym for International Business Machines, is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. Learn more. Apple's SaaS: Software as a Soul | TechCrunch.
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Turning One Company's Trash Into Another's Treasure, RecycleMatch Brings Site Out Of Beta, Hires New CEO | TechCrunch. Today, RecycleMatch — a Houston-based startup that helps businesses sell or give away stuff to recyclers and manufacturers so that they don't have to send it to a landfill — took its online marketplace out of beta, unveiling several new features and services.If the site performs as hoped, RecycleMatch could become the Alibaba, eBay or Amazon of waste-management and manufacturing, while helping just about any company improve its sustainability profile.Among the materials RecycleMatch helps businesses take out of the landfill-bound waste stream are: “commodity recyclables” including paper, steel diablo 3 gold, plastic and glass; wastewater; consumer electronics and business equipment (a.k.a. e-waste); and food waste.How do you "recycle" food waste, exactly? [ed: Besides throwing overripe tomatoes around in Valencia, Spain's famous annual Tomato Battle...] One soup maker uses RecycleMatch to sell its wasted product to renewable energy companies that purchase or pick it up to turn it into biofuel.The startup, whose offices are in Houston and Austin, recently attained a series A investment from a fund that it hasn’t yet revealed, and is putting the undisclosed capital towards sales and marketing, as well as website development. A few months ago, RecycleMatch brought on a new chief executive, Chris Porch, a serial entrepreneur who earlier worked in c-suite levels positions at Zag.com and BetweenMarkets, other online marketplace businesses.RecycleMatch founder, Brooke Farrell, spoke with TechCrunch about her inspiration to start this business (bringing on her brother-in-law Chad Farrell as co-founder) in the fall of 2009. The environmental and financial costs of sending business and industrial waste to landfills in the United States could be, and must be reduced she thought, while studying EPA data and tuning in to blogs and trades about trash and the environment.She noted on Tuesday:“For each one pound of waste generated by a consumer in the United States today, there are 60.31 lbs. of commercially generated manufacturing and industrial waste that were generated in the production of those goods. Companies pay on average, in the U.S. $45 per ton tipping fees to send that waste to landfills.”The new RecycleMatch website features the following services for buyers and bidders of recyclable or re-usable materials:1. Anonymous listings and messaging between buyers and bidders, that protects companies from revealing to the public what is in their waste stream.2. Specialized bidding that…a. lets buyers bid on materials, or find materials they need for free one time, or on a regular, weekly or monthly basis.b. allows sellers to choose among bidders who offer the best price, or are in the most convenient location to arrange a pick-up, or have an intended use for the materials that the sellers can appreciate.4. Reputation management system where buyers and sellers rate and are able to respond to one another, unlike the Yelp model. The reputation scores and reviews will be monitored by RecycleMatch's customer service team.Porch believes RecycleMatch will lower the cost of innovation in materials science and renewable energy. He said:“When there was damage done to a big building in Houston after a hurricane, people could not deal with a lot of the glass waste, because of a particular kind of film that was on it. We matched the company [that had to clean up this glass] with another that took it, and crushed it to make countertops.There are so many innovative ways to reuse materials instead of dumping them in a landfill. We make it possible for this to happen, across state lines, and in a way that’s affordable for all involved.”With its new leadership and website in place, Farrell predicted:“RecycleMatch should grow within orders of magnitude this year. Right now, we're looking at several hundred listings on our site. We expect to see five or ten thousand listings within a year.”Editor's note:A reader asks how RecycleMatch plans to make money. According to CEO Porch, RecycleMatch uses "a performance based business model." The site and service is free for those who want to register and list materials for sale, and to those who bid as buyers.The company charges 5% commission for material sold on the site. If material is given away free, RecycleMatch charges $5 a ton for whatever material is picked up by a "buyer." Porch and Farrell said those listing materials on RecycleMatch save money by not paying tipping fees at landfills, which according to the company are on average, in the U.S., $45 per ton. Crunchbase RECYCLEMATCH CHRIS PORCH Company: RecycleMatch Website: recyclematch.com Launch Date: October 7, 2009 Funding: $620k RecycleMatch offers sustainability software that enables corporations to maximize the economic and environmental impact of their Zero Waste initiatives. Unprecedented Visibility and ControlLeading businesses deploy RecycleMatch software as the system of record for their diverse recyclables and waste byproducts, which empowers them to manage their Zero Waste initiatives with unprecedented visibility and control.Capture True Market Value of Recyclables & Waste ByproductsWith RecycleMatch solutions, companies create scalable, technology-enabled sales processes for their recyclables and waste byproducts, allowing them to capture... Learn more Person: Chris Porch Website: Companies: RecycleMatch Chris is CEO of RecycleMatch. He has previously led multiple start-ups, including as President and COO of Zag.com, the leading private label automotive buying solution for major consumer brands such as American Express and USAA. 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American Airlines' Fares Return To Expedia And Hotwire | TechCrunch. Earlier in January, we heard that American Airlines' fares and links were removed completely from travel bookings site Expedia, after the two companies failed to come to a distribution agreement. Today, American Airlines and Expedia have made peace, announcing a new " memorandum of understanding" that will allow the companies to resume doing business together effective immediately.Financial terms of the agreement have not been disclosed, but clearly, the airline and travel site were able to come to a mutual agreement that suited their interests financially. American had a similar issue with travel search site Orbitz diablo 3 gold, and also removed its listings in late December 2010.American itself has been trying to build up its own bookings site diablo 3 gold, and industry insiders thought that the airline was planning to adopt Southwest's model of offering fares and booking solely through its site. As Airfare Watchdog reported earlier this year, the benefit of having consumers buy their flights on AA.com is that the airline makes money from the extra upgrades, including seat upgrades, insurance products, vacation packages, and hotel and car reservations.While American didn't expect a significant drop in sales from removing fares from Expedia, the fact that the two companies eventually reached an agreement makes me wonder if there was a financial impact for the airline after all. American also recently signed a distribution deal with Priceline. Crunchbase EXPEDIA Company: Expedia Website: expedia.com Launch Date: October 1, 1996 Expedia.com is an Internet-based travel agency and a part of Expedia, Inc.. It books airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages, and various attractions and services via the World Wide Web and telephone travel agents. The site uses the Sabre reservation system as their main Global reservations system.The company's main web businesses include Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com and TripAdvisor.com. The company also offers services for corporate travel and travel services in Europe and Asia.Expedia companies also operate internationally... Learn more. American Airlines' Fares Return To Expedia And Hotwire | TechCrunch.
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Google Chooses Its Fiber-Networked City Of The Future: Kansas City | TechCrunch. Back in February 2010, Google announced its plans to build out a fiber-optic network for a city in the United States, promising connection speeds around 1Gb/s — 100 times faster than the broadband most people are used to. The announcement led 1,100 cities to apply, and today Google has just announced the winning city: Kansas City, Kansas.For you lucky Kansas City residents, Google has launched an informational page outlining what their plans are (it also provides some background about Google itself). The site's FAQ says that Google hopes to begin building the network by the end of the year and that service should begin in the first quarter of 2012, with plans to roll out to all communities in Kansas City. Once the service is live pricing will be "competitive to what people are paying for Internet access today" though Google hasn't yet named the plans.Dont be too depressed if you happen to live somewhere outside of Kansas City diablo 3 power leveling, though. In the video below announcing the news, Sergey Brin says, "That's why we're rolling out to communities, starting with Kansas City, that are going to give one gigabit of access to every home." So it sounds like we'll be hearing about more community launches in the future. And hopefully Google's roll-out will put pressure on major broadband providers to speed up their fiber roll-outs. Crunchbase GOOGLE Company: Google Website: google.com Launch Date: July 9, 1998 IPO: NASDAQ:GOOG Google provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world's information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps and YouTube. Most of its Web-based products are free, funded by Google's highly integrated online advertising platforms AdWords and AdSense. Google promotes the idea that advertising should be highly targeted and relevant to users thus providing them with a rich source of information.... Learn more. Google Chooses Its Fiber-Networked City Of The Future: Kansas City | TechCrunch.
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Lady Gaga Donates $750K To Zynga's Japan Earthquake Relief Campaign | TechCrunch. As we wrote a few weeks ago, Zynga launched a campaign with Save The Children to raise money via in-game donations in Zynga games like FrontierVille, FarmVille and CityVille for the relief efforts in Japan following the massive earthquake and tsunami a few weeks ago. Today, the social gaming giant is announcing that Lady Gaga has donated $750,000, through the sales of her Japan Prayer Bracelets, to Zynga’s fundraising initiative. She is also donating another $750,000 to the American Red Cross to support relief efforts in Japan.And in the past two weeks, Zynga players alone have raised more than $2.5 million for Save the Children’s Japan Earthquake Tsunami Children in Emergency Fund and other causes. In a release issued by the pop singer and Zynga, Gaga said “I’m inspired that my little monsters banded together to help those affected by the terrible tragedy…What Zynga’s players have done for the cause is equally inspiring, and I’m thrilled to partner with them to raise money that will go to Save the Children and the American Red Cross.”Through Zynga games including Café World, CityVille, FrontierVille, FarmVille, Words With Friends, Vampire Wars, YoVille and Zynga Poker, more than 250 million players had the opportunity to donate 100 percent of the purchase price of newly created virtual items to the fundraising efforts. Via Credits, Facebook donated money generated through the purchases to support the initiative.The Japan fundraising initiative isn't the first charitable campaign for Zynga. Since October 2009, hundreds of thousands of players have raised more than $10 million dollars for international nonprofits through Zynga.org. And Zynga was able to raise millions for the relief efforts in Haiti last year.Lady Gaga recently sat down with Google's Marissa Mayer for a candid talk about tech, music and YouTube. Crunchbase ZYNGA Company: Zynga Website: zynga.com Funding: $1B Zynga was founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus and is named for his late American Bulldog, Zinga. Loyal and spirited, Zinga’s name is a nod to a legendary African warrior queen. The early supporting founding team included Eric Schiermeyer, Michael Luxton diablo 3 gold, Justin Waldron, Kyle Stewart, Scott Dale diablo 3 power leveling, John Doerr, Steve Schoettler, Kevin Hagan, and Andrew Trader.Zynga's mission is connecting the world through games. Everyday millions of people interact with their friends and express their unique personalities through our... Learn more. Lady Gaga Donates $750K To Zynga's Japan Earthquake Relief Campaign | TechCrunch.
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