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Farshad

  1. How many new Kindles will Amazon sell?

    · · Research

    Amazon will sell as many Kindles as they make, but the number they will make will not be the most they could make. The logic of selling a product which has a profit model unrelated to the cost of goods sold is tricky.…

  2. Swipe Conference 2012 Keynote

    · · Conference

    My Swipe keynote presentation is available as a free Perspective download. Swipe Conference 2012 Keynote. In it I present the history of personal computing and the shift to new platforms that foreshadows the dawn of a…

  3. MacTalk Podcast Special | Horace Dediu

    · · Podcast

    A recorded interview Peter Wells at Swipe Conference. We discuss the rise and fall of the PC, and some of the parallels that can be drawn from the rise of mobile platforms today. Which mobile platforms are destined to…

  4. Positioning Lumia

    · · Research

    The US has reached 50% smartphone penetration. comScore data shows July penetration at 48.8% and a monthly growth in penetration of nearly 2 percentage points. Given the rate of growth, it’s nearly certain that we’ve…

  5. 5

    · · Research

    It looks like the next iPhone will be called the iPhone 5. What’s in a name? As it turns out, quite a lot. Every hardware product that Apple has released has had a brand and a sub-brand. Macs for example use the Mac…

  6. An interview about Microsoft's Surface

    · · Research

    This interview was conducted with Bruno Ferrari Editor of Exame magazine in Brazil. First, do you have forecasts for tablet market share including Microsoft for next years? (Apple, Android, Amazon etc)? I have some…

  7. How many Kindle Fires were sold?

    · · Research

    Last September I argued against the potential of the Kindle Fire acting as a low end disruption in the tablet market. Now that the first version of the product has reached is end of life, it’s time to review the…

  8. Deus ex Machina

    · · Research

    Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. makes for powerful courtroom drama. Calling it drama, however, is faint praise. It’s entertaining and thrilling but the effects are shallow and they don’t last. I have been…