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A designer Thomas Bogner shared his impressive iWatch concept of what Apple’s long-awaited iWatch or smartwatch might look like.
While Bogner thinks “it looks basically like the bastard child of a Fuel Band and an iPhone,” we’re into it.
It’s a cool concept that looks like it’d be easy to wear, and those fluid transitions from screen to screen are simply tantalizing.
Sources: Dribble.Com and BusinessInsider
Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, is an American Internet entrepreneur, investor and is a billionaire who’s had an amazing life and career:
On complacency: ‘A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.’
On innovation: ‘I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.’
On progress: ‘If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.’
On developing company culture: ‘Part of company culture is path-dependent — it’s the lessons you learn along the way.’
On new ideas: ‘There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.’
On haters: ‘If you never want to be criticised, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new.’
On motivation: ‘I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.’
On choosing friends: ‘Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.’
On morals: ‘The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That’s approaching evil.’
One strategy: ‘We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.’
On growth: ‘All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s.’
On pivoting: ‘If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.’
On marketing: ‘In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.’
On pricing: ‘There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.’
SOURCE: BusinessInsider