<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Listers</div><div><br></div><div>It is fitting that once in a while we honor those who have stood out like a colossal in the ICT Sector in the world.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve Jobs is such one person. Read below the email thread and lets honor him. Let's also think of our local heroes in the sector and let's honor them in our own way.<br><br><div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div></div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> "FORTUNE Data Sheet" <<a href="mailto:fortune@email.fortune.com">fortune@email.fortune.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> 23 February 2017 at 5:32:35 PM EAT<br><b>To:</b> <<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>The house that Steve Jobs built</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> "Fortune" <<a href="mailto:reply-feb816777c6d0378-20_HTML-56937916-7213333-12@email.fortune.com">reply-feb816777c6d0378-20_HTML-56937916-7213333-12@email.fortune.com</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p>In April 2011, Steve Jobs showed me a book that had been prepared by Apple’s architects to show illustrations of the new campus the giant company would build near its current headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.</p>
<p>He was filled with pride about the unusual building, a massive circular structure that would hold 12,000 employees at once. My notes from that day say that Jobs took me through the pages of the book “in the same measured pace that he does slides in keynote presentations onstage.” Because of a later comment he made, people would refer to the new head office as the “spaceship.” That’s not how I saw it that day. Here’s how I described it in my notes: “The building itself is a massive, four-story circular building, with circular glass windows throughout, and office space for two-person offices plus bullpen areas outside the offices for collaboration. From the air, the building resembles the circular dial on an iPod.” Jobs told me the internal courtyard of the building was so big the entire
existing headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop, one freeway exit down the road, would fit inside it.</p>
<p>Six years later, Apple is <a href="https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2af019ba8a0e034dbcaec238eb37db2626870a93568dd7b771a63a05af05f840fbf0cd32c9b5b3d9f4dfc8188acccf97a71daeb71a2abb91">ready to open</a> the house that Steve intended to build. (He died that October; His last public appearance was a presentation to the City of Cupertino requesting permission to begin work.) Apple said Wednesday it will call the campus Apple Park and that a public auditorium for events will be the Steve Jobs Theater. It is a fitting tribute and proportional to how Jobs might have wanted it. Apple was bigger than Jobs. Yet he was its maestro, and so the space where it shows itself—and its products—to the world ought to bear his name.</p>
<p>Companies that build grand temples to themselves often are accused of harboring an “edifice complex.” This proves embarrassing if the building outlasts the company. It is still possible that Apple will suffer this fate. But it hasn’t yet. For now, it will honor its late co-founder’s legacy when Apple employees move in and get down to work.</p>
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<p><strong>Google's plan to embrace ride-sharing? It's counting on Waze.</strong> The company intends to expand the carpool service offered through its navigation app in the U.S. and Latin America after successful experiments in Israel and San Francisco, reports <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>. Its focus is on helping drivers find, and pick up, passengers interested in sharing rides. (<a href="https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2af019ba8a0e034d43cb28b862c897588aea60cf1bfa2a9f6c40d3041fc3a35ad2edfb24e6da4c5e47dced3e6af9b280ecc0015c662c8382"><em>Wall Street Journal</em></a>, <a href="https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2af019ba8a0e034d48de14e381797dabe1d5f08fe807930d1276eed9c5514df10c122a7b53bb909f3ac2c380844c489c6ff5dba9506d47db"><em>Fortune</em></a>)</p>
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<p><strong>AMD is angling for a bigger share of the high-end desktop computer market</strong>. The chip maker on Wednesday introduced a new microprocessor line that it claims can match the performance of some of Intel's best chips at half the price. (<a href="https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2af019ba8a0e034d2d0d028f903e6f51b47e7e8033d20785495bff89a923b8ab63dcb7b60dbda2f0ddec75aa250c2251a9add7594da3ee72"><em>Fortune</em></a>)</p>
<p><strong>Square benefits from deals with bigger merchants</strong>. The digital payments service, which faces intensifying competition from both banks and long-time rivals like PayPal, managed to grow sales almost 21% in its fourth quarter. (<a href="https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2af019ba8a0e034d9cd8dd95b07fb3a19bc13afa123c7724ae3f7cfa2a8909a6248c4acf5414241f1935c0256a04fcbab4208ad6b45871a4"><em>Bloomberg</em></a>, <a href="https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2af019ba8a0e034d691bbb3cdd380287ccb6630dff655c92104705ff44fd80430c163b5fecba7c734101857487eb425a0ce954115b9ab46d"><em>Reuters</em></a>)</p>
<p><strong>Microsoft and Airbus catch drone fever</strong>. The software giant is leading a $26 million venture round for AirMap, which specializes in navigation technology. Basically, it's working on an air traffic control service. (<a href="https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2af019ba8a0e034d877457a4a995dda1524daf06f5d6d7b73e15eb787d24f9e91d8fa1fd45089809f6a77d9a76f6d470f1cc83b7f980a6af"><em>Fortune</em></a>)</p>
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<p><strong>Cloud computing adoption is growing, the question is how much</strong>. A new forecast from market researcher Gartner projects a sales increase of around 18% this year to $247 billion. That's slightly less than what others are forecasting, but still a huge expansion. (<a href="https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2af019ba8a0e034d1aa31ca9d19fdb5363bbe3cbd0ab80c8534211eae38c57d4ce80c87427b073355f1367e65f7597c8f6e17583a4c7f2e8"><em>Fortune</em></a>)</p>
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<p class="column small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-offset-2 _10M0Ygc4">Now it's time to focus on the turnaround. CEO Park has a multi-pronged strategy, including offering a smartwatch with a health and fitness emphasis in the second half of the year. <a href="https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2af019ba8a0e034d56c430f7065f189f638d69f0d9df06153f81a160326f172641f200cf22da07a9a27164260fdf11531186b5812e70145b"><em>Park spoke with </em>Fortune<em>'s Aaron Pressman in more detail about that plan.</em></a></p>
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