John Gruber at Daring Fireball: But if Apple gets it into its head that they should only work on iPhone-sized opportunities, it would paralyze the company. In baseball terms, it’s fine for Apple to hit a bunch of singles while waiting for their … [Continue reading]
“The first generation of CDs is already rotting and dying”
Peter Kirn at CDM Create Digital Music: The failure of CDs seems to be more of a case of marketing getting divorced from science. We’re never free of the constraints of the physical world. As an archivist will tell you, we have to simple adapt – … [Continue reading]
No Meaningful Corporate Governance on Either Google or Facebook
Ben Thompson at Stratechery (paywall): It’s also worth noting that the very forces that make it possible for first Larry Page and Sergey Brin and later Zuckerberg to maintain control of their companies — the fact they grew so quickly that they were … [Continue reading]
“There is no “technology industry””
Anil Dash: Once upon a time, it made perfect sense to talk about “the high tech industry” in America — pioneering companies like Intel or Fairchild Semiconductor or IBM or Hewlett Packard made computer processors and related hardware, and most of … [Continue reading]
“The Mainstreaming of the Mac”
Jan Dawson at Tech.pinions on Mac power users: If we put these numbers together, we get a picture of 8–13 million users of Adobe’s creative products and another 13 million or so Apple developers. Of course, of those Adobe users, a good chunk will … [Continue reading]
“Surface Studio, Nintendo Switch, and the Potential of Niche”
Ben Thompson at Stratechery There’s no question both products are exciting in their own right; what makes them compelling, though, is not simply the technology demonstrated, but the fact both, unlike their forbearers, are clearly designed with the … [Continue reading]
“Why Today’s Tech Narrative is Way Ahead of Reality”
Sam Lessin at The Information: I believe in my lifetime we will implement much of the science fiction narrative as it stands today. But I hope to live a long time, and from a business perspective I am worried that most of the big tech companies are … [Continue reading]
Table Stakes for Developing a Competitive Mobile OS Are About a Billion Dollars
Charles Arthur at The Overspill: History now shows that the table stakes for developing a competitive mobile OS are about a billion dollars. (You can extract those numbers from HP’s acquisition of webOS from Palm, from BlackBerry’s BB10 efforts, … [Continue reading]
Turning the iPhone Into an Augmented Reality Device
Neil Cybart at Above Avalon: We are beginning to see the early stages of a new product era at Apple. New devices are being introduced that will ultimately be able to handle many of the tasks that we currently give iPhone. In 2015, Apple unveiled … [Continue reading]
“Snapchat unveils $130 connected sunglasses and rebrands as Snap, Inc.”
Casey Newton The Verge: Spectacles will naturally be compared to Google Glass, Alphabet's mostly fruitless foray into wearable face-based computing. But because they are sunglasses, they will be less conspicuous than Google's. They're cheaper, … [Continue reading]
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