Infinite Demand for the Infinite

As I have said on many occasions, there is an "infinite demand for bandwidth." I could also add there is an infinite demand for storage, content and anything Apple.

Click here for Apple's earnings report. However, if you have the need for speed, here are some highlights, "Apple sold 3.05 million Macintosh® computers during the quarter, representing a 17 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 10.2 million iPods during the quarter, representing an eight percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 7.4 million iPhones in the quarter, representing seven percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter."

Oddly, Apple didn't talk about Applications or iTunes which are also part of this "killer platform." In fact, Apple is its own ecosystem gaining increasing momentum with China now coming online to the infinite horizon. Imagination is not certainly enough to determine Apple's ultimate destiny.

The Apple Tablet is now looming over all of us. With it be this or that, will it erase or replace paper, PC's, etc. What in the world could it be that takes the world by storm like the iPhone. Certainly it's not hard to guess that it will:
1) complement the iPod/iPhone, TV and Mac,
2) enhance iTunes/applications,
3) fill a gap in our lives that fits somewhere between a TV, PC, pod and phone,
4) solve yet another problem we have that none of the above solves,
5) not diminish or compete with existing products and
6) provide a content management system that fills both a personal and corporate need.

While "going green" is yet another trend that is gaining momentum, no one really knows what means other than recycling and using less paper is. We still drive too much, dying in too many auto accidents, wasting needless hours going to monolithic buildings, wasting still more energy, sitting in endless meetings filling the time because decisions take too long because managers have no idea what to do - waiting for someone else who knows even less, and so forth. The crisis we face is the retirement and death of the "boomers" who are so old school, most of them graduated with IBM paper punch cards. The success of Apple lies not so much in innovation but in focusing its efforts on an innovative audience hungry for not just technology but cool design like Italian cars and clothing. Of course, we want the iLet or iiT or whatever they call it - the I's have it.