Recently read an article about Steve Jobs being involved with developing the iPhone model that is to be rolled out after iPhone 4S. Although the AI application SIRI is a feature in iPhone 4S, the article still speculated Steve Jobs’ involvement with that feature, as SIRI’s technology is consistent with Steve’s philosophy of product design: “simple to use technology that seemingly brings magic to human’s life”. I am not an apple fan, actually I own no apple product myself, but I do acknowledge that Steve Jobs is the beacon of designing consumer products, and that piece of his philosophy will keep on inspiring more geniuses in the future.
Category: Business Strategy
B2C vs C2C market comparison over 10 years
Posted by – October 17, 2011
Using market cap of AMZN and EBAY as proxy for B2C and C2C market, this is an interesting chart of their dynamics over last 10 years. Obviously, this chart is in US dollar, and 1 US Dollar in 2001 worth more than 1 US Dollar in 2011 due to inflation, and this chart has reflected the inflation component. Taking out inflation component, it shows that at the early Internet years, C2C market is bigger and peaked first, while B2C market catch up later on and exploded in exponential rate a few years after C2C market’s peak.
