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Nokia's price for exclusivity
Days after Nokia announced the end of life for the Symbian platform I wrote a post titled Who will buy the next 150 million Symbian smartphones? The reference was to claim by management that before there would be a…
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Nostalgia
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The omnivorous app
Marc Andreessen famously coined the phrase “software is eating the world.” It’s an apt observation. If you look back on the history of computing you’re likely to measure computers sold or devices sold or users harvested…
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5
It looks like the next iPhone will be called the iPhone 5. What’s in a name? As it turns out, quite a lot. Every hardware product that Apple has released has had a brand and a sub-brand. Macs for example use the Mac…
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Deus ex Machina
Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. makes for powerful courtroom drama. Calling it drama, however, is faint praise. It’s entertaining and thrilling but the effects are shallow and they don’t last. I have been…
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Exclusive interview with Asymco's Horace Dediu | The Tech Block
Horace, you spent nearly a decade at Nokia, where you worked as a business development manager and industry analyst. Did you foresee their current, increasingly dire situation? I did not see an explicit downfall. I…
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The poetry of Steve Ballmer
Steve Ballmer July 9th, 2012 on competing with Apple: We are trying to make absolutely clear: We are not going to leave any space uncovered to Apple We are not. No space uncovered that is Apple’s We have our advantages…
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Asymmetric competition | Horace Dediu | Mobilism 2012 on Vimeo
Here is a video of my presentation at Mobilism 2012 on the story of mobile phone disruption. Thanks to Peter-Paul Koch (aka PPK) for organizing a great event and allowing me to present to such a smart and knowledgeable…
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Jim Zellmer interviews me about my life
This is a transcript of a voice interview conducted April 19th 2012. The interview is available as an audio file here. — Jim Zellmer: I thought we’d start by describing your education from the beginning, Horace. Horace…
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Take the money and run
In August 2007, during the HD format wars between HD-DVD and Blu-ray format, Toshiba offered Paramount and Dreamworks $150 million to produce HD versions of their movies exclusively as HD-DVD.[1] This type of deal is…
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The new feeds and speeds: iPad vs. MacBook Air and iMac
At last year’s iPad 2 launch, I compared the specs of the newly announced iPad with those of a laptop and desktop from five years earlier. This year I am comparing the new iPad with Apple’s computers from four years…