Thomson family
Thomson Reuters
Sunday 31 July 2011
Gil D'Ameglio (reportedly) once said he wanted Apple to be the Swiss penknife of the PC world. A year later Steve Jobs had retaken control.
Conclusion: Apple has gone through some pretty “non-Apple” moments too. The only thing which held the faithful to it was the wonderful UI (and the awfulness of the competition).
So Apple didn’t have to try beat Windows – it was already ahead. It had to break out of its niche market status by
● Simplifying its product line
● Closing down the Apple franchise to other hardware manufacturers
● Completely reworking its UI.
... which translates to Reuters how exactly? Er:
1. Identifying better nice financial products
2. Potentially becoming an outsource for paywall news providers (are any non-paywall news providers going to survive?)
3. Completely reworking the UI of all its products
4. Testing all its products properly (see me for a series of horror stories concerning news2web – and don't tell me it was an exception).
Peter Farrell-Vinay
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Conclusion: Apple has gone through some pretty “non-Apple” moments too. The only thing which held the faithful to it was the wonderful UI (and the awfulness of the competition).
So Apple didn’t have to try beat Windows – it was already ahead. It had to break out of its niche market status by
● Simplifying its product line
● Closing down the Apple franchise to other hardware manufacturers
● Completely reworking its UI.
... which translates to Reuters how exactly? Er:
1. Identifying better nice financial products
2. Potentially becoming an outsource for paywall news providers (are any non-paywall news providers going to survive?)
3. Completely reworking the UI of all its products
4. Testing all its products properly (see me for a series of horror stories concerning news2web – and don't tell me it was an exception).
Peter Farrell-Vinay
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Thomson Reuters
Thursday 28 July 2011
The Thomson family is clearly not happy with the results of the Markets Division. They have fired the chief and key members of his team, and put the group CEO in charge. This shows there is no clear successor and the changes were made in relative haste. The Markets Division in many ways is exReuters – Glocer must be swallowing hard, and possibly looking afield. He probably has max one year to turn things around. Meanwhile, Editorial seems to be putting lots of eggs in the US media basket. Anyone's guess why. If I were an investor, I'd be worried. Hold on, I am an investor!
Nelson Graves
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Nelson Graves
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