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Why did Steve Jobs flush FLASH
Because he realized one of the pictures would cost him something money can’t buy: customer satisfaction.
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New York Times' pricing issue
John Gruber: I just don’t get the pricing, and I find it hard to believe there are many people willing to pay $455/year for digital access to a newspaper, no matter how good the newspaper is. NYT’s big secret is that such a pricing structure usually is
About magic, possession and Jonathan Ive
The wrong kind of “magic” Virginia Postrel at WSJ published an article on what’s making the iPad magical. Something bothered me at the end of the reading, but I couldn’t say what. She goes like this: Apple has long had an aura of trend-setting cool, but magic is
Is Google actively encouraging social, by deleting private Google Profiles on July 31?
Do you remember the Yahoo hoaxes “officially announcing” they’ll delete your account at a specific date unless you send “this” message to your entire address book or roster? Well, I never thought somebody would take it serious, until now: Google will actually delete your “Google Profile” if, at 31st
Xoom, TouchPad and Tab killer:
Smart Covers!
There's not enough production power in all China to match Apple's sales
I guess more than half of the online iPad 2s sold are to be produced in the next 3 weeks. Produced, not delivered. Four weeks ETA for iPad 2
Apple never surprises, always amazes
Daniel Terdiman, CNET, on Apple’s hit at SXSW: [SXSW] is an interactive conference, after all. It’s where companies that are changing the game with what they do online show the rest of the technology world how it’s done. It’s not where a hardware company—albeit one
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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
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
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Management and accountancy do not overlap in any respect
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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