It's counterproductive to lower my price, because I have to sell more units to make up for that lost revenue. Generating brand-new products can take a long time. Improving service is typically the quickest way that I can take market share. So aligning technology strategy to better service customers becomes an essential path to revenue growth.
The PC is an important part of our business and will continue to be for a long, long time.
Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
Betting completely on HTML5 is one of the, if not THE biggest strategic mistake we've made.
I'll be involved more with Adobe overall in terms of our technology direction and the problems we are trying to solve, working across the different business units at Adobe.
Oracle will continue to componentize all of its solutions so we can work in a heterogeneous environment.
Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it.
Going forward, we will focus on building the very best Windows phones on a quicker timeline. We will also focus on the channels and markets that offer the best returns. This is a similar approach to the one we have taken with Surface, which has been very successful.
Many people think we are a technology company, but we are totally customer-led.
[Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than that, you sort-of have to separate the hardware and the software issue.
See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.
A lot was happening in A.I. But I also realized it wasn't clear what Salesforce's role in A.I. was. That's when we started acquiring quite a few artificial intelligence companies, maybe a dozen.
Where I stand, or where the people I work with stand, is the technology is inevitable, so it's about how do we steer it.
If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising.
