About Tim Bajarin

Tim Bajarin is recognized as one of the leading industry consultants, analysts and futurists, covering the field of personal computers and consumer technology. Mr. Bajarin has been with Creative Strategies since 1981 and has served as a consultant to most of the leading hardware and software vendors in the industry including IBM, Apple, Xerox, Hewlett Packard/Compaq, Dell, AT&T, Microsoft, Polaroid, Lotus, Epson, Toshiba and numerous others. His articles and/or analysis have appeared in USA Today, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time and Newsweek magazines, BusinessWeek and most of the leading business and trade publications.
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Is Amazon Stealing Android from Google?

by Tim Bajarin on April 29, 2011 in Personal Computing

Is Amazon Stealing Android from Google? I have been watching with great fascination the moves Amazon has recently made with Android. Two weeks ago they launched the Amazon App store that focuses on Android apps and last week they announced their cloud based music service with a special version just for Android. Although Google has [...]

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How Apple Outsmarts their Competitors

by Tim Bajarin on April 18, 2011 in Personal Computing

When the iPhone was launched in 2007, I met with Phil Schiller, SVP of World Wide marketing for Apple, and Greg Joswiak, the Apple VP in charge of marketing the iPods and iPhones. During the meeting they showed me the iPhone’s many features and shared their goals for the device, which has now become a [...]

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Could Apple Survive without Steve Jobs?

by Tim Bajarin on March 5, 2011 in Personal Computing

With Steve Jobs taking another leave of absence due to health issues, the question coming up often is whether Apple can survive without Steve Jobs at the helm. Jobs has been the face of Apple and has represented the persona of Apple for decades. As a chief spokesman for Apple, he would be irreplaceable. When [...]

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The Next Computing Battle of the Decade

by Tim Bajarin on March 5, 2011 in Personal Computing

The tectonic plates that form the foundations of computing shifted in the last two weeks and has set in motion what I believe will become the real personal computing battle of this decade. You might be thinking that it will be the cloud that will deliver this eruption to our digital world, and indeed, the [...]

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Apple’s Strategic Advantage

by Tim Bajarin on March 5, 2011 in Personal Computing

When you think about Apple’s strategic advantage over competitors, the fact that they have the brains of Steve Jobs, Jonathan Ives and other top visionaries at the company comes to mind. It is true that having this type of brainpower at the top gives them quite an advantage over their competition. But it would be [...]

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