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The parable of the transistor
This weblog could be read as a diary of the disruption of the mobile industry. There is lots of topical analysis and opinion, but sometimes I’ll post on the “theory” which describes what’s going on in a more abstract,…
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Farshad
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Warner Music slows while iTunes grows
Revenue from digital sales of recorded music grew just 3.7 percent to $169 million. That’s a slower pace than the 4.5 percent growth posted a year ago and 39 percent growth two years earlier. via Warner Music CEO looks…
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Why Apple's cash is worth more than Microsoft's cash
My recent exposé of Apple’s cash (and cash equivalents and long-term securities and short-term securities) drew quite a bit of attention, which is good. Because it needs to be demystified. However, the story does not end…
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T-Mobile US celebrates nearly 20 percent smartphone users
T-Mobile loses 93,000 customers but triples smartphone base | Electronista. Thanks to Android, T-Mobile tripled its smartphone user base in one year. Evidence again of a secular shift to smartphones and the value of…
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70 percent of college freshmen are entering school with Macs [Updated 2]
Increasingly, companies are giving their employees a choice to either use Microsoft Windows PCs or Apple Inc.’s Macs, the analyst said. And, increasingly, employees are choosing Mac over Windows. To boot, Chowdhry said…
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RIM's decomposing innovation
It’s hard to get excited about the new RIM Blackberry Torch. It’s not exciting in a positive way and not exciting in a negative way. It’s just more of the same and the same is not all that bad. Then again, the same is…
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An iTunes dialog box designed to bring a tear to an iPhone owner's eye
Tear of joy, that is. Georg Friedrich Händel – Oratorio – Messiah, HWV 56 Part 2, No. 44 Chorus Performed by The English Concert & Choir
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An apology
This site is fairly new. It has been around for only about 6 months. In that time there have been 393 postings and 586 comments. It has been read 100k times and I’ve moved it three times to accommodate this growth.…
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Global mobile phone sales, the full picture
After piecing together the global smartphone shares, it’s time to take a look at global mobile phone shares. That’s all phones from all vendors that matter. Unfortunately, just like there are only fragments available…
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The deterioration of Nokia's core business
The saga of Nokia’s challenges has been well documented in this weblog. For this quarter, we take a look at the sequential deterioration in Nokia’s bottom line and draw causal inferences to its lack of competitiveness in…