Essential Apple Extra: Featuring Tim Bajarin

Recorded 31st October 2018 In this very special edition of the podcast I am delighted and honoured to have the company of Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies and Techpinions site and podcast. On this show <h4>TIM BAJARIN</h4> Tim is recognised as one of the leading industry consultants, analysts and futurists, covering the field of personal computers and consumer technology. His writing and analysis has been on the forefront of the digital revolution and he was one of the first analysts to cover the personal computer industry. He is credited with predicting the desktop publishing revolution three years before it reached the market and also multimedia. He is considered one of the leading experts in the field of technology adoption life cycles. He 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. Creative Strategies has been around since 1969 and was one of the original market research firms in Silicon Valley. Tim joined as their first PC analyst and took the whole company into tech market research and industry analysis. They don't work for any particular company but with almost all of them. They help them understand market trends, strategic implications, competition landscape, future markets, analysis of product or market strategy, and a whole host of other things that their expertise is helpful for with a specific company or product need. They don't do much forecasting but focus more on digging into the markets they study and packaging that in a way clients find useful for decision making. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! We can now also be found on Spotify, Soundcloud and even YouTube. Social Media and Slack <h4>You can follow us on:</h4> Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Spotify / Soundcloud / YouTube / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.