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  1. Microsoft's billion dollar bonfire

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    Microsoft executives told Goldberg during a recent visit to company headquarters that the company, carriers, and manufacturing partners, would spend “billions” of dollars in the first year on marketing and development of…

  2. Announcing Asymco Data Downloads

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    Much of what is published here relies on data, lots of data. It’s important that data be published along with conclusions, but data in spreadsheets is often difficult to read. Spreadsheets are not “productized” so they…

  3. The End of Management – WSJ.com

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    When I asked members of The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council, a group of chief executives who meet each year to deliberate on issues of public interest, to name the most influential business book they had read, many…

  4. The Android SKU paradox

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    Next month will be the 24th since the first Android device launched in October 2008. The G1 was followed by another HTC device in February of 2010 and a few others in the spring. The summer of ’09 showed a steady release…

  5. Mobile devices overtaking PCs

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    Smartphones, or Mobile devices, will soon become the dominant computing platform for humanity and supplant the PC which has reigned since Apple ignited the Personal Computer revolution in the late 1970’s. via The numbers…

  6. The Android abdication

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    When I wrote about Android’s pursuit of the biggest losers, I made the explicit claim, backed by data, that Android was most attractive to device vendors who were in financial distress. Android is a lifeline to sustain…

  7. Analysts' categorical failure

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    Gartner explicitly explained so in its press release: “Gartner’s PC group does not track media tablet sales in this PC shipment data, so iPad sales are not included in these results via Is Apple the real U.S. PC market…