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US as epicenter for mobile data utilization
Japan and Korea have further 3G reach but use it significantly less. His findings support notions that Android and iPhone are controlling data use in the US. The iPhone’s current exclusive home, AT&T, and…
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Visualizing the winners and losers of three years of smartphone share growth
Many consider June 2007 to have been a pivotal moment in the history of mobile phones. Apple’s entry with the iPhone has re-defined the market in many ways. However, there was a smartphone market before then. About 28…
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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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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.…