Saturday Mornings: 6 Years Ago Versus This Morning
- Post By: Greg Crumpton
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- Category: Blog
Six years ago, Saturday mornings on the sofa looked different.
This morning I was was doing my current Saturday morning deal, which is great, fresh ground coffee from @CommonPlace in Pittsburgh, PA, some reading material and a 3.5 lbs. Yorkie (Phoebi) in my lap, it occurred to me how different it looked from my Saturday mornings just a few years back.
Way back then, I had a copy of the Charlotte Observer and a cup of coffee, not CommonPlace coffee mind you, and maybe, just maybe, a laptop near by, just in case and whatever book I happened to be reading at that time. Probably, @Tom_Peters or @ThisIsSethsBlog Godin, as he is the original Man on the Move. Seemed pretty normal to me and Phoebi.
New era: Coffee, Mac PowerBook running for @Twitter feed and LinkedIn perusing, iPhone down loading a book to listen to on an upcoming trip, and a hard-copy, yes paper, book I am reading, think @MitchJoel, @BreneBrown, @JonathanFields or maybe @Nilofer. The iPad handy for looking up words that true genius writers use to stretch my gray matter and an old school, hand written journal for thought keeping, and yes, Phoebi.
This kind of got my brain gnashing around with some material that I recently read in @JayBaer ‘s new book, Youtility. Jay quoted a gent named, George Colony, CEO of Forrester Research, who laid it out like this: “As the web becomes the AM radio of digital, the mobile App Internet will rise. This market will be dominated by two or three ecosystems, semi-closed worlds built on a closely fitting set of apps, phones, tablets, computers, operating systems & partners.”
I guess after reading Mr. Colony’s quote I realized this time has arrived. As an example of this Apple sold more iPads between April and June of 2012 than any other computer manufacturer sold of their entire product line. In support of this fact, Gartner, Inc., reported that app downloads will increase more than 600% between 2012 and 2016.
Why is all of this important? I think it is important and very relevant as it pertains to the economy. More of this type of growth and the proliferation of data and data issuing and consuming devices will help drive us to a more robust economy. Think of it in terms of a small business like AirTight. As more and more people come on line in a mobile way, we will, as a nation, state, city, and company be impacted in a positive way.
Businesses develop devices, hardware, software, data centers and co-lo environments to support all of this mobility in a digital sense. So, when those people and companies do well it trickles all the way down to our company, as we specialize in removing heat from data centers & co-los.
So no real earth-shattering facts here, just a realization that we as a people have changed, we tend to be embracing technology at an incredible rate and this is how we are going on down the road.
I love it. And judging by the way Phoebi nestles in… she’s pretty good with it as well.
Enjoy technology and your own way of using it.
