
Apple’s installed base – foundation for success, or curse?
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

CEO / Managing Partner - Spark Partners
I currently serve as the CEO of three companies: Content Laboratory (a content services company,) Spark Partners (a growth strategy firm offering assessments, strategy consulting and on-line self-administered revenue growth tools,) and Soparfilm Energy (an oil & gas exploration & production investment company.) Over the last thirty years, I have served on multiple boards, including Audit Chair for a NASDAQ traded company, and advised boards of directors on managing for disruptions and promoting innovation into corporate management.
My passion is public speaking on the importance of growth, innovation and strategy to succeed. As a keynote speaker I have been invited to over 1,000 leadership events, both multi-company and single company. My portfolio includes speeches, presentations, workshops and executive coaching on how to achieve faster growth from higher levels of innovation driven by trends.
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Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

What Apple must do is continue disrupting itself, creating white space projects and developing new product markets.
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ApplePay is going to change the world.
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Apple's shift from "core" Macs to trend-based innovation led it to become the most valuable publicly traded company in America.
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Apple will enter a Growth Stall if its revenue declines year-over-year in the current quarter.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

This article highlights Apple's role in driving the Internet of Things (IoT) market through innovations like iBeacons and ApplePay, positioning it for continued growth.
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Microsoft, despite spending heavily on R&D, failed to innovate and lost ground to Apple, which succeeded by focusing on future products and markets.
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Apple wins by adapting fast to meet customer needs.
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the marketplace has significantly shifted since the Tribune became an industry leader. Such Defend & Extend tactics will not create value for investors, and shows a much greater probability of significantly weakening a company already under attack from "new media" Challengers.
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the leaders of IBM Disrupted their product development process when they opened it up to all employees, suppliers and their family members
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Microsoft's merger with Yahoo aims to challenge Google but may struggle due to outdated strategies and missed market shifts.
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Netflix's bold shift to streaming, even at the cost of its DVD business, propelled it to market leadership and a major stock turnaround.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

American policies often stifle productivity by subsidizing unproductive sectors and failing to invest adequately in innovative businesses.
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the trend south and west continues unabated. In 1970, the South and West accounted for less than half the population. Now they account for 62%. The Northeast is losing people rapidly,
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In 2018, I wrote about the Japanese demographic “trend bomb.” Low birthrates and anti-immigration meant there were only 2 working people to support each retiree.
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America is enormously over-built with retail space
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Toys R Us isn’t a story about Amazon, or eCommerce, taking out another retailer
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Amazon doesn't outperform competition
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Jeff Bezos has become the second richest man in the world, jumping past Warren Buffett while Bill Gates remains no. 1.
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The emerging middle class, with money to spend, is rapidly shifting to BRIC countries from the USA and Europe.
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I’m optimistic because the fellow who’s taking over as CEO shows the willingness to create and manage White Space within Allstate.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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