Tim Bajarin

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Contributor at Forbes

Chairman of Creative Strategies-Hi tech analyst and Columnist for Forbes, Fast Company. Appears often as business analyst on TV and widely quoted on technology.

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How Apple Helped Train A Generation Of Chinese Tech Workers

2 days ago | forbes.com | Tim Bajarin

Apple played a role in making China a tech manufacturing powerhouse. gettyDuring the Mao Zedong era in China, the government took hundreds of thousands of youth from urban areas and sent them to farms and fields as part of Mao's reeducation process. Officials labeled these young people the "sent down" generation and forced them to leave their homes and work in peasant environments. The government denied an entire generation the chance to pursue higher education and earn better wages.
Why It’s Nearly Impossible For Apple To Make iPhones In The U.S.

4 days ago | flipboard.com | Tim Bajarin

4 hours agoSince discovering this hidden iPhone feature, my sleep quality has significantly improved -- I use it every night now. When asked about my hobbies, I always joke that one of my favorite pastimes is sleeping. But I'm not really joking. As someone who dealt with insomnia as a teenager and often has …
Why It’s Nearly Impossible For Apple To Make iPhones In The U.S.

4 days ago | forbes.com | Tim Bajarin

Apple is under pressure to return manufacturing to the U.S. but the solution is not a simple ... More one.(Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)Getty ImagesAs I have written here before, I have extensive experience in global manufacturing and what it takes to build a world-class operation that produces high-quality products in large quantities.
Why Lenovo’s Adaptability Fuels Its Global Competitive Edge

1 week ago | forbes.com | Tim Bajarin

I wrote about Lenovo’s 20th anniversary of buying IBM’s PC business a few weeks back. I shared the history of the deal and how surprised I and many others were about how successful Lenovo has integrated IBM’s PC operation into its own and helped it become the #1 PC vendor today. It has become an important global tech supplier of not only PCs but also servers and a broad range of enterprise services.
米シリコンバレーIT企業幹部の政治姿勢の変化　保守から中道、近年は多様化へ | Forbes JAPAN 公式サイト（フォーブスジャパン）

1 week ago | forbesjapan.com | Tim Bajarin

筆者が業界アナリストとして米シリコンバレーを取材し始めた1981年、テクノロジー業界の幹部の多くは政治的に保守的だった。デジタルの未来を創造し始めたシリコンバレーの起業家の大半は政府の介入を最小限に抑えることを望み、自由市場を信奉していたのだ。ところが1990年代半ば、業界に重要な節目が訪れた。情報化時代に向けた計画を推進するため、政府の支援が必要になり、テクノロジー企業幹部の政治的立場が徐々に中道寄りに移行し始めたのだ。米ソフトウェア企業のネットスケープが最初のインターネットブラウザーを発表すると、筋金入りの保守派でさえも、当時の民主党のビル・クリントン大統領やアル・ゴア副大統領らと交流するようになった。...
Silicon Valley's Shifting Politics-and The One Thing Uniting Them

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | Tim Bajarin

When I started covering Silicon Valley as an industry analyst in 1981, most top tech execs were politically conservative. They were entrepreneurs who believed in a free market and wanted the least government intervention as they began inventing our digital future. However, there was a significant tech milestone in the mid-1990s when tech executives’ political positions began shifting slightly towards the middle, and they needed government support to further their information age agenda.
Trends From The Society Of Information Display Week Conference 2025

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Tim Bajarin

One of the most important conferences about display technology took place in San Jose, CA, earlier this week. Known as the SID conference, it is produced by the Society of Information Displays and is the premier technology show about all forms of displays used in almost all information and consumer technologies. While we mostly think of displays in terms of PCs and televisions, just about every form of technology requires some type of display to work.
Ventajas e inconvenientes de la IA en la creatividad humana

3 weeks ago | forbes.es | Tim Bajarin

Por naturaleza, soy un pensador con el hemisferio izquierdo del cerebro. A una persona con este hemisferio le gusta la lógica, la secuenciación, el pensamiento lineal, las matemáticas, los hechos y pensar con palabras. A un pensador del hemisferio derecho le gusta la imaginación, el pensamiento holístico y la intuición, y adora las artes, el ritmo, las señales no verbales, los sentimientos, las visualizaciones y soñar despierto.
The Pros And Cons Of AI On Human Creativity

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Tim Bajarin

By nature, I am a left-brain thinker. A likes logic, sequencing, linear thinking, math, facts, and thinking in words. A right-brain thinker has imagination, holistic thinking, and intuition and loves the arts, rhythm, nonverbal cues, feeling, visualizations, and daydreaming. While I am a left-brain thinker, I admire many of the traits of right-brain thinkers, especially their creativity. Something interesting has happened to me since generative AI emerged.
Projecting The Tech Market For The Remainder Of 2025

4 weeks ago | forbes.com | Tim Bajarin

As we approach mid-year 2025, I look closer at how the tech market may fare for the rest of the year. In years past, projecting end-of-year tech trends was relatively straightforward. I would look at the fall orders that PC makers gave to their ODMs and study current and future consumer demands for new technology.