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Mobile Opportunity: Desperately Seeking the Info Pad
http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2006/05/desperately-seeking-info-pad.html
Desperately Seeking the Info Pad. Or, What I Did on my Summer 'Vacation'. I want to tell you about a dream. Last summer, after the cutbacks at PalmSource, I spent some of my "vacation" (ie, job search) thinking about products I wanted the tech industry to build. That's what you're supposed to do in Silicon Valley, right? You leave a company, come up with the Next Great Thing, get it funded, and create a wildly successful startup. And that's working out nicely. Let's start with the customer. But a quick r...
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Mobile Opportunity: The future of publishing: Why ebooks failed in 2000, and what that means for 2010
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The future of publishing: Why ebooks failed in 2000, and what that means for 2010. This post is adapted from a speech I gave at the O'Reilly Tools of Change publishing industry conference in February. But the year isn't 2010 - it's 2000, and the ebook market is about to go into hibernation for a decade. What went wrong, and what can the failure tell us about the prospects for ebooks in 2010? Here are the details on why, and how to avoid the avalanche when it does happen. Why ebooks failed in 2000. In 200...
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Business Strategy ( The coworker from hell ): Juni 2013
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Business Strategy ( The coworker from hell ). Sabtu, 29 Juni 2013. The Internet is Truly Awesome (Leonard Bernstein Mahler edition). David Denby wrote a nice piece in the New Yorker. A little over a year ago about this ten most "perfect" orchestra recordings of all time. Coming in at Number 5 was Leonard Bernstein's Mahler 7 (the second time through) with the New York Philharmonic. (FWIW, I know seven of his choices, and love them all). If one looks it up on the NY Phil's website. This is truly awesome.
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Mobile Opportunity: Mobile applications, RIP
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Mobile applications, RIP. The decline of the mobile software industry. Mobile computing is different from PC computing. For the last decade, that has been the fundamental rule of the mobile data industry. It was the central insight of Palm Computing's "Zen of Palm" philosophy. Psion came up with similar ideas, and you can hear echoes of them from every other successful mobile computing firm: Mobile computers are used differently from PCs, and therefore must be designed differently. The problem wasn't jus...
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Business Strategy ( The coworker from hell ): Maret 2013
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Business Strategy ( The coworker from hell ). Kamis, 21 Maret 2013. Why it’s Hard to Set a Standard and Maximize Short-Term Profit. After my post yesterday on Kevin Lynch’s move to Apple ( link. CEO Elia Freedman sent me a followup question:. 8220;This line is interesting: ‘You can’t set a standard in tech and maximize short-term profit at the same time.’ Talk more about this? He’s right, I did assert that without explaining it. So here goes:. 8212;Amazon has been selling e-reader devices at cost for sev...
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Mobile Opportunity: Is Symbian dead? And if so, who killed it?
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And if so, who killed it? We should declare victory and go home.". Apocryphal quote attributed to George David Aiken. I hesitate to write anything about Symbian, because it's a great way to get branded a parochial American, or an Apple fanboi, or a "member of the US-protectionistic mobs braying for blood," to paraphrase a comment from a tech discussion forum in the UK this month. Is it stronger than ever? What's really going on? At the same time, Nokia reaffirmed an announcement it made in October that i...
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Mobile Opportunity: "Software as a service" misses the point
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Software as a service" misses the point. At the end of October, Microsoft's Ray Ozzie. Wrote internal memos announcing that Microsoft must pursue software services. The memos were leaked to the public, I believe intentionally. They drove enormous press coverage of Microsoft's plans, and of the services business model in general. Here are two examples of the coverage. The first is from The Economist. Meanwhile, the New York Times wrote. The Old Dream is reborn. Plug in a new module. And so on. The benefit...
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Mobile Opportunity: European vs. American mobile phone use
http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2006/09/european-vs-american-mobile-phone-use.html
European vs. American mobile phone use. In last week's post. About Palm's phone plans, I made a passing comment about the right way to display your mobile phone at dinner in Europe. It turned out to be the most popular part of the post, and produced a couple of requests that I say more comparing European and American attitudes toward mobile phones. I don't pretend to the world's expert on the subject, but I'll summarize what I've seen. Here goes:. Now that I've hedged thoroughly, here are those details:.
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Mobile Opportunity: Nokia, the computer company?
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Nokia, the computer company? Ten years from now, Nokia's going to be the subject of an interesting business case study. It'll either be the stirring story of a company at the height of its power that had the courage to challenge its deepest beliefs. Or it'll be the cautionary tale of a company that had it all and blew it. Nokia says it's planning for what comes after the mobile phone. The fact that Nokia's even talking about this is a remarkable change. Five years ago, Microsoft was charging hard in ...
