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On Units and Platforms
When thinking about the number of devices shipping out of Apple, and the relative value of those units compared to the competition you have to always think of the platform. The market leader Nokia claimed to have sold…
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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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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…