June 2010

Apple has earned the rep­u­ta­tion as one of the most admired brands — and envied com­pa­nies — in the world. For the third year in a row Apple ranked as the world’s most admired com­pany, by the high­est mar­gin ever. But this didn’t hap­pen overnight, and it’s not just because Steve Jobs is one of the world’s most admired CEOs. There are sev­eral fac­tors that account for Apple’s con­tin­u­ing suc­cess as a mar­ket innovator.

A key ele­ment of Apple’s strate­gic play­book is

Revised on March 28, 2011

25 years ago Apple and a hand­ful of part­ners ignited the dig­i­tal pub­lish­ing rev­o­lu­tion. I was there, a senior mem­ber of Apple’s pio­neer­ing team, along with vision­ar­ies and change agents from Adobe, Aldus, Quark and oth­ers. Our work laid the foun­da­tions for dig­i­tal con­tent and pub­lish­ing, key mile­stones on the road to the Web, social media, blog­ging, and other 21st cen­tury communications.

Revised on June 16, 2010