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What Amazon and iPad Teach us About Strategy
I love it: now when I buy a Kindle book from Amazon.com, I can have it on my iPhone, my iPad, my Mac laptop, my Windows laptop, my Mac Desktop, or my Windows desktop. This makes me feel like I really...
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Traveling With iPad Alone
I’m writing this post from a hotel in San Francisco, using my new 3G iPad (propped against the wall on the desk) and an Apple Bluetooth keyboard. This was supposed to be a quick trip, Friday to Monday,...
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iPhone, Luvya and All That, but Couldya Clean This Up?
It’s not like I don’t know how to read around this, but with all the slickness of the iPhone, why allow this simple error? The high for the day is 92 degrees when the current temperature is 100...
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Looking For the Rest of this Patent Story
What a shame. Although we all like neatly packaged stories — heroes and villains, good vs. evil, David vs. Goliath — it’s rarely that simple. For example, late last year there was what seemed to be a...
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Company Culture Is What You Are Not What You Want To Be
I got this business plan question in email: When you’re starting your business, does “company culture” have an impact in your business plan? Do you start your “culture” when the company is small and...
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Those Sad Stories of Elephants and Mice in Startups and High Tech
Big squashes little. The elephant steps on a mouse and kills it, but never even notices. We stop on ants on the sidewalk without realizing. You can probably think of a lot of these cases. I had a...
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The Mac vs. Windows Rivalry is Dead. Apple Won.
Whoops. It suddenly occurred to me: the old Mac-Windows rivalry is dead. There goes a bit of industry history. It used to be fun, back in the old days, when it mattered. If you’re old enough you’ll...
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Tipping Point Trumps First Mover Advantage
Two interesting milestones: a note last week that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S. coupled with the fact that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I...
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Classroom Kindle with Big Brother Control One-Ups iPad
Interesting post: Amazon Just Beat Apple to the Classroom, on Gizmodo. I’ve been following ebooks and textbooks for more than 10 years now, expecting disruption. Textbooks are obsolete. It should have...
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Seductive Sales Copy: So Easy to Say, So Hard to Do
I just read How To Write Seductive Sales Copy Like Apple on Kissmetrics. Good stuff. See, I’m doing it. But, oh, yeah, it’s really hard. And it seems so easy when you look at it. Post author Henneke...
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