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On App Store as a Content Store
The implications of the new app transaction model are profound. To begin with, consider the following:
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Farshad
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Comes With Trouble
I can’t believe this. http://musically.com/blog/2009/10/15/comes-with-music-107k-users-worldwide/ For kicks, I looked up what I wrote about Comes With Music (CWM) a year ago: Trouble Comes With Music By Horace Dediu on…
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Fortune 500 iPhone Use
Curious possibility: More companies have promotional apps on the iPhone than permit their employees to use one. About 30% of the Fortune 200 already have iPhone apps.
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Pink Cheeks
The decision process regarding mobility at Microsoft from 2005 has been a classic example of paralysis by analysis. Trapped by their processes and resources into doing horizontal solutions for a world that buys vertical…
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Windows Immobile
John Herrman reviews the new Windows Mobile 6.5 for Gizmodo: To put it another way, handset manufacturers have done more in the last two years to improve Windows Mobile than Microsoft has, which borders on pathetic. In…
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Android Fantasies
http://adage.com/digitalnext/article?article_id=139414 “Three Reasons Android Could Terminate Apple Despite the Hype, iPhone Isn’t the Only Mobile Platform in Town” All three reasons he cites apply to the incumbents…
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Blurry Moto
Earlier today, Motorola unveiled MOTOBLUR, a mobile social media OS of sorts that runs on top of Google Android. The company plans to introduce its first MOTOBLUR handset – CLIQ (and an international version called DEXT)…
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Putting Nokia Back Together
So Dell is making Android mobile phones while Nokia is making Windows PCs. A curious confluence of poor management decisions. Why is all this dilution of core competence happening? Average punditry would suggest it’s all…
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Nokia Quarterly Results
Nokia’s latest quarterly results and forecast caused a 15% drop in the share price on a day when the S&P rose by about 1%. The drop was the largest single day change in the company’s valuation since 2004. The cause for…
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Assessing Nokia’s Competitive Response
When the iPhone was announced in January 2007 I tried to envision the competitive response from Nokia. The method involved some knowledge of the product development cycle that I was faintly aware of. Here is what I…