apple
Horace Dediu on IPad 2's Smart Cover
It will be interesting to compare the Smart Cover business with competitor tablet businesses. [in 2011] Asymco.com
test
Creative vs political entrepreneurship
Creative vs political entrepreneurship “While entrepreneurs are out there busting their humps, making something cheaper, expanding its usage, increasing productivity, fending off fierce competition, and hoping to turn a profit along the way, there are those who, through the stroke of a pen, make a killing doing absolutely nothing of
cybernetics
Overriding
Any third party code that overrides system defaults without user consent is a no-go and should not be accepted by any OS curator or developer. As a corollary, any OS that permits some third party code to overwrite its own, without user consent, is a no-go. If such a code
apple
Management and accountancy do not overlap in any respect
apple
Who paid the peanuts and who got the monkeys
Horace Dediu on Nokia / Microsoft stopping Google’s Android from gaining more market share: Quite the contrary, the removal of Symbian from the marketplace will accelerate the penetration of Android in emerging markets. (…) Android will gain the largest share of Symbian loss due to overlap. What if Microsoft paralyzing Nokia
anti glare
Kindle has an anti glare display while iPad hasn't
For some, having a better looking sticker on the windshield means having the better car. It also means dumb publicity. How else could you read a non-backlit display but under “direct bright light”?
Apple's Three Laws of Developers
yourhead: 1. A developer may not injure Apple or, through inaction, allow Apple to come to harm. 2. A developer must obey any orders given to it by Apple, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A developer must protect its own existence as long as
amazon
Amazon took twice the "evil" 30% Apple's cut
On the face of it, it’s hard to believe those claiming outrage aren’t primarily motivated by the fact that this is Apple, and any Apple headline is “news.” Let’s face it, “Amazon’s 70% Cut is Evil and Publishers Will Perish” is an article few would have
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vruz: so this happened. Apple’s Steve Jobs, bottom-right in black shirt, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg flank President Obama in Thursday photo.
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If net neutrality dies, we all have to rely on apps.
Quora is surely not a blog
Some days ago “I wrote an answer at Quora”; but I’ve missed a detail: the answer was more of a post than an answer. Therefore here is the story: The (anonymous) question: Am I an elitist to think that most people are stupid? Or am I just too smart?
nvidia
Farewell, Intel!
Using Tegra 2 as a baseline, the chipmaker expects to see Kal-El quad-core processors delivering a 5x performance boost – bringing Kal-El roughly in line with the performance you’d get from an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (Intomobile)