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I think we’re beginning to uncover the edges of a world where lack of x86 compatibility is no longer the kiss of death it used to be. It’s unclear to me that Intel can ever reach equivalent performance per watt with ARM; Intel’s ultra-low-end Celeron 847 is twice as fast as the ARM A15, but it’s also 17 watts TDP. In a land of ARM chips that pull an absolute maximum of 4 watts at peak, slapping Intel Inside will instantly double the size and weight of your device – or halve its battery life, your choice. Intel’s been trying to turn the battleship, but with very limited success so far. Haswell, the successor to the Ivy Bridge CPUs in the Surface Pro and Yoga 13, only gets to 10 watts at idle. And Intel’s long neglected Atom line, thanks to years of institutional crippling to avoid cannibalizing Pentium sales, is poorly positioned to compete with ARM today.

Coding Horror: Touch Laptops

A textbook example for disruption.

https://newnetland.com/2012-11-disruption/

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According to founder Mike McCauley, Amazon’s Locker program poses the greatest threat competitively, but he actually sees it as an advantage. “They opened up a whole new market for us because they have 30 percent of the commerce volume,” McCauley said. “The other scattered 70 percent don’t have the order volume to justify building a network of kiosks.” “In that way, we’re kind of like an open platform.”

Sorry We Missed You: YC-Backed BufferBox Solves The Problem Of Missing Packages | TechCrunch

Interesting new YC startup.

https://newnetland.com/2012-08-according-to-founder-mike-mccauley-amazons/

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Post a photo of a Shake Shack burger to Instagram, Path, Google , Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Foodspotting and now Medium, plus perhaps I still use Flickr or a service like Picturelife. The restaurant might collect those photos via Chute or Olapic. I can mix the burger photos to make a photo collage on Mixel. I can get into my opinion about the restaurant on Foursquare or Yelp or debate the best burger in the city with only smart people I let in on Branch…and also Twitter, and maybe Quora. Someone else will consume that content on any of the above sites, or Flipboard, Pulse, Bloglovin or whatever I cross post to Twitter or Facebook which have both become firehoses of everything, uncurated. Am I leaving anything out?

– Thisisgoingtobebig.com – Quantum of Social

There is a differentiation going on.

https://newnetland.com/2012-08-post-a-photo-of-a-shake-shack-burger-to-instagram/

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We’ve only said this 9,000 times, but market share numbers do not mean that Android users are buying apps. Until Android users buy more apps (and Android isn’t a cesspool of malware and piracy and fragmentation), developers will continue to ship for iOS first and maybe Android later if they’re bored and there’s nothing good on TV.

TechCrunch: “Android Is Winning” « John Moltz’s Very Nice Web Site

There are more parameters to the attractivity of a platform than just market share. This is neither new nor hard to understand.

https://newnetland.com/2012-08-weve-only-said-this-9-000-times-but-market-share/

Login without password

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Ben Brown:

I think an even better solution would be to remove the password completely, allowing users to login with only an email address. Each time a user needs to login, they enter their email address and receive a login link via email.

Clever idea. Proprietary identity hubs like Facebook, Google and Twitter will always stay relevant because of the benefits they provide through their systems (social graph, traffic via newsfeed entries, etc.). But Browns email idea could become plan b for startups that want to go completely password free for their logins.

(Via Marco.org)