{"id":375,"date":"2010-08-02T07:30:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T12:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2010-08-02T07:30:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T12:30:50","slug":"first-to-market-first-mover-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"First to Market, First Mover Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<strong>Ballmer: Microsoft Feels Tablet &#8220;URGENCY&#8221;<\/strong><\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/07\/29\/technology\/microsoft_analyst_meeting\/index.htm\">By David Goldman, staff writerJuly 31, 2010: 5:19 PM ET<\/a><\/p>\n<p>REDMOND, Wash. (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday that the software giant is urgently working with its partners to unveil a host of tablet computers running Windows 7, to compete with Apple&#8217;s fast-selling iPad.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting with financial analysts on Thursday, Ballmer outlined the company&#8217;s strategy to catch up to Apple and Google in the consumer space. He said his company&#8217;s &#8220;job one urgency&#8221; is bringing Windows-based tablet computers to the market.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n<strong>Bill&#8217;s Note:<\/strong> Please note the importance of being &#8220;First to Market&#8221;.  Do you think Microsoft will ever be able to &#8220;catch up&#8221; to the ipad?  Will Google ever &#8220;catch up&#8221; with it&#8217;s version of the iphone?  Only time will tell&#8230;.and during that time how many more Billions will Apple earn while it&#8221;s two competitors spend billions to &#8220;catch up&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>What is your story&#8230;are you or is your company first to market in a category?<\/p>\n<p><em>Wear a Smile and Wear it Out!!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballmer: Microsoft Feels Tablet &#8220;URGENCY&#8221; By David Goldman, staff writerJuly 31, 2010: 5:19 PM ET REDMOND, Wash. (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday that the software giant is urgently working with its partners to unveil a host &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=375\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[40,67,29,33,34,32,37,35,27,43,38,30,68,42,41,66,28,36,31,65,69],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-general-business","tag-anti-aging","tag-apple","tag-author","tag-awakenings","tag-awareness","tag-business-coach","tag-createyourfate","tag-discover","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-faithfamilyfocus","tag-father","tag-ipad","tag-leadership-development","tag-lifestyle","tag-microsoft","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-speaker","tag-steve-balllmer","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}