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Monthly Apple Users
In the postmodern computing world that we live in, the measure of success isn’t revenue or profit or units sold but the number of users that an ecosystem can attract. Therefore the monthly active user (MAU) unit of…
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Innovation Talk: Overuse of word innovation has blurred its true meaning – Business News | Latest News Stories | The Irish Times – Mon, Apr 28, 2014
“Innovation” is one of those words that, through casual overuse, has come to signify a wide array of distinct concepts – in some sense, the word is literally losing definition, like an out-of-focus photograph that…
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Surprise
After n quarters of predictability, Apple surprised with sales performance that was 3.74% above the top of their guidance. This may not seem significant but since instituting a new range-bound guidance method in Q1 of…
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On the future of Google. Part 2
In Part 1 of a look at Google’s future I showed that Google’s revenues have been highly correlated with the population of Internet users in the markets it serves. If there were a causal relationship between population of…
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Ruby on Rails Podcast #146: Horace Dediu of Asymco – Open Source Software
Sean Devine has a conversation with Horace Dediu of Asymco about open source software. via 5by5 | Ruby on Rails Podcast #146: Horace Dediu of Asymco – Open Source Software.
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CMD+Space #92: A New Lingua Franca, with Horace Dediu
This week Myke is joined by Horace Dediu. They discuss his work at Nokia and how that lead to starting his blog, Asymco. They also talk about the role and work of an analyst, his presentation series – Airshow – and…
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Innoveracy: Misunderstanding Innovation
Illiteracy is the inability to read and write. Though the percent of sufferers has halved in the last 35 years, currently 15% of the world has this affliction. Innumeracy is the inability to apply simple numerical…
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Asymcar 12: Cycle Times
We discuss the zeitgeist of automotive decline. We marvel – again – at the industry’s glacial pace of change and contrast the auto industry’s tiny volumes to smartphones and personal computers. via Asymcar 12: Cycle…
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Significant Digits Episode 1 Part 1
Show #1: The Future of the Internet and Everything Part 1: The Internet is dead, long live the Internet The data shows the Internet growth will go through an inflection point. Should we panic or celebrate? Watch the…
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The Critical Path #115: The Canvas of Pixels
Horace and Moisés talk about Amazons acquisition of ComiXology, digging into the very “local” nature of book publishing in general and the extreme regional differences in content popularity and delivery. via 5by5 | The…