Reality check. It’s time to get out the Halloween lights!

Good afternoon!

It’s a strange feeling, but 2015 is moving right along. I found this graphic on Facebook today and it struck me as kind of a surprise. If you count today, here are a few stats that might interest you:

This means that there are a few holidays coming up and a few time off requests from my employees that need to be fulfilled. Please note that Mission Repair, Inc. will be open every day until our next holiday off which is Thanksgiving, Thursday November 26th, 2015. I can’t believe that I’m already talking about Thanksgiving! It’s still early, but when I see that we are under 100 days until Christmas, things start to get a little crazy around this time of year.

So as we close up on a Friday afternoon, reflect on the short amount of time we have left in the year to get things accomplished. It’s been a busy year so far for us here at Mission Repair and for me personally as well. What will 2016 bring? We can talk about that in 106 days, on January 1st! Just in time for my birthday.

Have a great weekend, Ryan

The iPad Pro – will it be for you?

Hello friends, Apple recently announced the iPad Pro; and of course we will be offering repairs for it soon here on the Mission Repair website.

There’s a lot of talk about who and what this tablet was designed for. Specifically since of it’s high price tag, that it could replace a laptop for high-end executives that travel, read the news, email, watch movies and work within their proprietary vertical market software. Again these devices are about $950 on average and there won’t be one in every household (in my humble opinion).

Jason Perlow for Tech Broiler writes:

“But if the iPad Pro is the future of computing, particularly for executive task workers and for high-end data visualization, then we really need to think about capacity management in the cloud and how we may need to re-architect existing LOB apps originally designed for Client-Server, now being lifted and shifted to IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) to minimize development, to scale as PaaS (Platform as a Service) in massively multi-tenant, public cloud environments.

Because without the Cloud, the iPad Pro is just a very expensive executive paperweight.”

I think he’s got some validity there, but even though I don’t imagine these devices selling like the iPad Mini where I see them in the hands of children, I do think that the consumer group that just simply likes a big screen will wait in line to have the next big thing. Is it for me? I don’t think so.

My son has the iPhone 6 Plus, and it’s a little too much. I still remember loving my iPhone 4S; but I’ve settled into my iPhone 6. Size does matter in the electronics world, and I think I’ll stick with my iPad 4 for a while. At least until I become a big important business executive that is!

Take care, Ryan

Mission: what’s next?

Hello there on this fine Thursday afternoon;

I just got back to my home office where the plans are in place to get moving into our newest location in Lenexa. I have close to “a million” emails that I need to get to, but some of the important items on my list today are complete.

I stopped by the office in Olathe and my staff was hot and frothy…we’ve had an unbelievable amount of walk-in business today and my technicians along with my customer service representatives are all running at 110%. Tayler was holding her own, Dylan was in a great mood, Derrick, Roger, Lennie and everyone else were all working as a team. It really feels like there’s a lot of good going on right now.

However do you ever feel like leaving the office with a list of items on the “to do” list is a bad thing? That’s where I’m at when it comes to my daily activity list because there’s just no way for me to get everything done that I want to get done. It’s better for my psychi to feel accomplished, so I’m going to be working a little late tonight and I’m OK with that. What’s new, right?

With that being said, Mission Repair is getting a fresh start in a few weeks. We will be moving into a new Mission Repair location in Lenexa, Kansas and I’m really excited about that. My employees have some new opportunities for growth and the ceiling is lifted for them to learn and grow and be successful. I’m traveling again in a couple of days to my Lakewood, Colorado location and it’s always great to get up into the mountain air of the Rockies.

We are focused in on our goal of being the best service center for iPod, iPhones, Macs and Smartphones; and everything that we do is to bring the best possible experience. Have any questions on how we can help you? Give us a call at 866-638-8402. We’re here answering your calls until 7:00pm CST all week, and until 5:00pm on Saturday. Oh yes, we will be open on Sunday shortly per customer demand, I hear ya, we’ll be here for you.

Have a good evening, it’s looking like a delivery pizza is in my future. Yum.

Take care, Ryan