As electric cars follow the trajectory of the smartphone, software will be the turf war When Steve Jobs launched Apple’s iPhone in January 2007, the mobile phone industry was turned on its head. At the time, Jobs described the iPhone as a “revolutionary product” and said that Apple was “reinventing the phone”. This was a rare occasion where a businessman’s hubris was justified. With the iPhone, Apple changed the way [...]
Five ways the travel industry can save itself Covid-19 has absolutely hammered the travel industry. The UN World Tourism Organisation predicts a fall in international travel spending of $910bn–1.2 trillion this year, and that arrivals will tumble by up to 80 per cent. This constitutes an extinction level threat for many businesses in the industry, and has prompted an array of existential reflections, [...]