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Is the PC back?
Gartner’s own press release has an interesting spin: “After Two Years of Decline, Worldwide PC Shipments Experienced Flat Growth in Second Quarter of 2014, According to Gartner” Gartner’s actual figure is 0.1% growth.…
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IBM and Apple: Catharsis
IBM did not invent personal computing but their “PC” became synonymous with the category. Having entered the market in 1981, the IBM PC quickly became the top selling brand. From 1984 to 1993 IBM sold more PCs than any…
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Late late majority
Seven years after the iPhone was launched, 70% of the US population is using smartphones. Smartphones existed before the iPhone so the category is older than seven years but as far as adoption goes this is nearly the…
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Competing effectively against your most potent competitor
New market disruptions take root in non-consuming contexts. For instance, mobile phone photography began not because early phone cameras were good. They weren’t good at all but good enough when a camera was not within…
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Apple: Lessons in Self-Destruction. Richard Gutjahr’s blog
My thanks to Richard Gutjahr for taking time to talk about self-disruption. I met Richard as the Master of Ceremonies at the Censhare FutureDays event in Munich. He interviewed me for his blog and posted the results as a…
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The Disruption FAQ
Disruption happens when the strong are defeated by the weak. More precisely it’s when those with unconstrained access to resources have them taken away by those with minimal or no resources. It’s a phenomenon that is in…
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Ten years ago: Clayton Christensen on Capturing the Upside
You can hear this as an MP3. [It’s important to understand just how much the theory has evolved in the last 10 years. Much more perhaps than in its first eight.] Doug Kaye: Hello, and welcome to IT Conversations, a…
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▶ Horace Dediu: “Transformation of Business and Society through Technology”
My talk on the future of things from Censhare’s FutureDay 2014 in Munich. Watch the video on YouTube
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Asymcar 15: Sunray Sedan
Matt Grantham joins us to discuss electric vehicles, renewable energy, smarter software, solar opportunities and economics. Matt introduces us to Solar X, the solar car challenge. He reflects on these emerging…
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Twenty Questions from Catalin Stelian Andrei
Catalin Stelian Andrei, Editor of The Day, INTERNET PROTV asked me twenty questions: 1. What phone do you have in your pocket right now? Why that model? I carry the iPhone 5. The last iPhone I bought was an iPhone 5C…