The Product Breakfast Club

Jake’s not here this week. So Jonathan is joined by Amr from AJ&Smart to talk about a little more about Apple (since they had their media event a couple weeks back); compare Apple’s leadership with Microsoft’s; and how to approach working on a “boring” product. Here’s a peek at the topics discussed in this episode: Innovators vs executors Has Apple become boring?  Who’s running product at Apple? How Steve Ballmer ran Microsoft How success can set you up to be disrupted  Microsoft is interesting now..?! Companies should focus on doing boring well How do you pitch a boring product? Innovation is overrated  The importance of framing in product design Links Amr Khalifeh on Instagram Amr Khalifeh on Twitter Daring Fireball Book: The Four Steps to the Epiphany—Steve Blank Book: The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses—Eric Ries Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm—Joanna Stern—The Wall Street Journal Apple apologizes for contin