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2026 6

  1. Fear and Loathing in the Software Community
  2. What Claude Code Changed — and Didn’t Change — in My Development Process
  3. AI Didn’t Cause Layoffs. Incentives Did.
  4. Software-in-the-Middle: When Software Becomes the Customer
  5. Bad LLM Code, 4,000 Lines or Less
  6. The New Software Development Stack: Humans + LLMs

2021 4

  1. How Apple’s App Store policies have contributed to the surveillance advertising industry
  2. Math doesn’t change
  3. Texas Isn’t a Failure of Capitalism
  4. Why Companies Should Build Free Apps

2018 7

  1. Course Correction – Reinventing PowerOne #7
  2. Screwing Up – Reinventing PowerOne #6
  3. Reinventing PowerOne #5: Listening
  4. Reinventing PowerOne #4: Failing First Contact
  5. Reinventing PowerOne #3: Accounts
  6. Reinventing PowerOne #2: Don’t Screw Customers
  7. Reinventing PowerOne #1

2016 2

  1. My appearance on the Release Notes podcast
  2. View From The Cheap Seats: A Journey Through Game 1 of the World Series

2015 23

  1. Backing up and how I lost 6 months of data
  2. The way it was: channel sales before app stores
  3. Upgrading our thinking on App Store revenues
  4. Holding My Breath
  5. Trials and Upgrades Won’t Save Independent Software Developers
  6. Intuit To Sell Quicken
  7. Water, food and smartphone
  8. Keeping Portland Weird
  9. Web! Native! Both?
  10. Amazon Dash may be the most amazing and ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen
  11. The trade-offs of changing people’s lives
  12. You’re going to pray at an altar. The question is, which one?
  13. Why Apple’s Force Touch technology was Monday’s most interesting announcement
  14. Introducing DEWALT Mobile Pro for Android
  15. Four stages of shipping
  16. Indie Game: The Movie
  17. Contingency planning
  18. The technology behind our Mobile First Cloud First strategy
  19. “Mobile First Cloud First”
  20. “If niche is something that millions of people use every day.”
  21. Scale is a four letter word
  22. Fail slowly
  23. I am a grinder

2014 76

  1. iPhones, Apple Computers, Watches and Trade-Offs
  2. Death To Calculators: A Personal Journey Trying To Disrupt Math Education
  3. Adam, ALS and The Ice Bucket Challenge
  4. Apple Doesn’t Have To Do Jack Shit
  5. Why Trial Apps Won’t Save Mobile Indie Developers
  6. The One Who Owns The Customer Wins
  7. Barnes and Noble Splits In Two
  8. John Day Fossil Beds
  9. What If Apple Is Actually Better Without Steve Jobs?
  10. Shooting Themselves In The Foot, Hopefully
  11. Doing What I Love
  12. Pretentious App Stores
  13. Portrait of a Serial Winner
  14. Confidence
  15. Paving The World With Solar Panels
  16. Observations From Outside The Classroom
  17. The Apple Squeeze
  18. Forget The Translator. Here’s Skype.
  19. A Baby Is Born
  20. Highly Supportable Garbage
  21. Marijuana and the NFL
  22. Regular Expressions May Be The Most Powerful Dev Tool I’ve Ever Learned
  23. The Equals Story: What’s Taking So Damned Long?
  24. Managing Risk
  25. Programming Sucks
  26. The Leveling Off Of iPad Sales
  27. Choosing Sides
  28. Innovation Illiteracy
  29. Why A Healthy Microsoft Is Important For Software Developers
  30. What I’m Reading: The Technology and Business Book Collection
  31. Waiting For Something Amazing
  32. A Shift To Web-First Development
  33. Two Days of Pain and Suffering, Windows 7 Edition
  34. My Technology Wish List
  35. Tablets, Phones and Wearables
  36. Scratch and ScratchJr
  37. Microsoft Makes oneNote Free
  38. Urinal Rules
  39. Persistance
  40. The End Is Just Another Beginning
  41. Why Most Start-Ups Should Never Raise Money
  42. A Good Pen Is Hard To Find
  43. The Presentation Mistake You Don’t Know You’re Making
  44. A New SAT Aims to Realign With Schoolwork
  45. Stop Blaming Developers, Start Blaming Apple
  46. Unblocked
  47. Screwing Your Customers Is Supposed To Be Bad For Business
  48. 65 Years of Honda Innovation In 2 Minutes
  49. The Art Of Bootstrapping
  50. Paul Graham: Start Small To Grow Big
  51. If I Think I Get Hate Mail
  52. Apple Buys TestFlight
  53. Whatsapp And The Stories Behind The Story
  54. The “Blah Blah Blah on Steroids”
  55. A Personal Transformation
  56. Editorially and Disruption Theory
  57. Why Indie Developers Go Insane
  58. Competing For Consumer Dollars
  59. Networks and Hierarchies
  60. Building Community Through Mobile
  61. Build Businesses, Not Apps
  62. Good Reads VI
  63. The Best I Can Do Is Learn From Mistakes
  64. Some Of The Worst Start-up Advice I’ve Ever Read
  65. Pet Peeves
  66. Good Reads V
  67. “We’re Just Flipping Through Index Cards”
  68. Mobile Portland Presentation
  69. 30 Pounds
  70. 2014 Software Business Models
  71. Sunk Cost
  72. Learning From Our Customers: Soliciting Feedback For powerOne v4.1
  73. Buggy Software
  74. Breathing! I Should Have Tried This Earlier.
  75. powerOne version 4.0
  76. Who Cares That The Calendar Changed?

2013 198

  1. My 2014 Mantra: Focus Focus Focus
  2. 3 Really Good Criteria For Making An App
  3. A Massive Undertaking
  4. Looking Back At Horrible Code
  5. App Rating Requests And Optimizing For Success
  6. The Questions No One Thinks To Ask
  7. Generational Smackdown
  8. Intuit Screws Their Customers Again
  9. Shipping
  10. Don’t Start a Company, Kid
  11. Amazon Goes To The Droids
  12. Dinovember
  13. My Insatiable Appetite
  14. Winning My Way to Weight Loss
  15. Accounting Time Capsules
  16. 6 Lessons From A Contract Development Job
  17. How Do We Know When We Have a Minimum Viable Product?
  18. Slugball
  19. The End Of Blockbuster, The Foreshadowing Of Something More Ominous
  20. Proper Badge Etiquette
  21. Thinking Long-Term
  22. Wealth Inequality in America
  23. Finally Ready For Take-Off
  24. Giving Up On My Dreams
  25. The iPad 2 and Education
  26. Commoditize Everyone Else’s Business
  27. Accidental Meetings
  28. The Seminal Works Of Steve Blank
  29. Nobody Tells This To People Who Are Beginners
  30. Thoughts On Speaking At CocoaSlopes
  31. Build Businesses Not Apps
  32. CocoaSlopes Conference
  33. The Blackberrys Are In The Back
  34. Give Customers Something Worse
  35. Speaking of Underscore David Smith…
  36. Underscore Price Dynamics
  37. Make Money Make Art
  38. Paulson’s Bullshit
  39. Apple’s New Support For Older Devices
  40. Luck Be A Lady Tonight
  41. Hayao Miyazaki Retires
  42. The Best Platform For Incubation Is The Web
  43. The Top Challenges Of 2,000 Designers, Entrepreneurs And Product Managers
  44. The Start-Up Sine Curve
  45. Good Reads IV
  46. Should I Write An App?
  47. Assault On The Humble Productivity App
  48. When Microsoft Drove Off The Rails (Part 3)
  49. When Microsoft Drove Off The Rails (Part 2)
  50. When Microsoft Drove Off The Rails (Part 1)
  51. An American Coach In London
  52. Assume
  53. Barnes & Noble Shoots Itself In The Foot
  54. If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple
  55. Controlling Content Editable
  56. Steve Ballmer’s Retirement Timing Sucks
  57. The Imperfect Craft
  58. Taken Out Of Context
  59. Failing… Again
  60. Winding Down
  61. Amazon Reviews
  62. The Massachusetts Software Tax
  63. Compressed Into The Shape Of The Tube
  64. Introducing Equals or How We Will All Work With Numbers In The Future
  65. Changing The World Has No Time Table
  66. Good Reads III
  67. Jeff Bezos And The Future Of News
  68. The Big “Mo”
  69. I Don’t Know What I’m Doing
  70. Fast Time and the Aging Mind
  71. The App Store Problem Is Not Price
  72. Victory Lap for Ask Patents
  73. Tarring An Entire Industry With Gimmicks And Tricks
  74. If I Were Running Microsoft…
  75. Maximum Viable Product
  76. Beware The Feature
  77. To College or To Start Up, That Will Be The Question
  78. The Sacrificial Lamb
  79. Money and Politics
  80. Apple and Sustainable Business Models
  81. powerOne Calculators for All Android Devices, Kindle Now Available
  82. 10 Thoughts On Converting Apps To iOS 7
  83. Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
  84. Alaska Bound
  85. Software, The Art Form
  86. Apple’s Brush Fire
  87. Designed by Apple in California
  88. This Is Tim Cook’s Apple Now
  89. The Upgrade Cycle
  90. The Center Of Apple’s World
  91. The End of Privacy Already Happened
  92. WWDC Is Here Again!
  93. Adidas miCoach Smart Soccer Ball
  94. What I Learned As An Oompa Loompa
  95. Android Unlocked, Carriers Locked Out
  96. New Tech Means New Winners
  97. Hardware’s Impact on Software Pricing
  98. How Different Would iOS Development Be If Apple Hadn’t Given In To Native Apps?
  99. Left Behind
  100. Tackle The Impossible
  101. Congresses Continued Obsurdity: The Brow Beating of Apple
  102. The Expectations Game
  103. Fannie Freedman
  104. Replying To Google Play Reviews Do’s and Don’ts
  105. The Future Is Subscription For All Productivity Apps
  106. The Market For Paid Productivity Apps Is Definitely Dead
  107. Here’s To The Crazy Ones
  108. The Soul Of Instapaper
  109. The Psychology Of Instapaper
  110. The Selling Of Instapaper
  111. Mobile’s Hierarchy of Needs
  112. In Movies, It’s All About The Story Once Again
  113. A 23-Year Game Of Tag
  114. Return and Ridicule
  115. I Don’t Care Who You Know
  116. Airports
  117. My Problem With Food
  118. Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think
  119. Crazy
  120. Thinking Only Of The Milestone Isn’t Enough
  121. Oops. Forgot to Carry The Two.
  122. The Daring Fireball Effect
  123. A Moment of Silence
  124. Tenacity And Persistence Pays Off
  125. Wearing a Badge, and a Video Camera
  126. Freemium Lies
  127. Open Season
  128. Nothing Stands Still
  129. Backlog 2
  130. Backlog
  131. FAA To Loosen Electronics Restrictions
  132. Jerry Colonna on Entrepreneurship, Delusion and Peace of Mind
  133. Once Upon A Time We Were Running Out Of Phone Numbers
  134. Virality For The Win
  135. Startup Identity and the Sadness of A Successful Exit
  136. Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks
  137. How To Start A Magazine (And Make A Profit)
  138. What Happens When the Marketing Mix Changes?
  139. The Spy Novelist Who Knows Too Much
  140. Really Hard Work
  141. RIM and the Case for a Third Smartphone Winner
  142. Map The Future
  143. Artery Calcification
  144. Cut Off: 40 Years Without Human Contact
  145. Apple, the Business Chameleon
  146. You Know You’ve Lost When…
  147. More Value Off-Contract?
  148. Daylight Savings Time
  149. His Saving Grace
  150. Optimistically Depressed – Start-up Life and Roller Coaster Rides
  151. OS Control and the Next Billion Smartphones
  152. The 5 Ps: Achieving Focus in Any Endeavor
  153. Google’s Design Aesthetic
  154. John E. Karlin, Who Led the Way to All-Digit Dialing, Dies at 94
  155. powerOne Scientific Test Ready Edition
  156. Juggling
  157. The iPad’s Failing
  158. The Burden Of Generations Past
  159. The Super Supercapacitor
  160. Unlocking phones is illegal? Let’s fix this. Sign the White House Petition.
  161. The Uniqueness of Oregon
  162. That Holy Shit Moment
  163. Google Now and the Mobile Information User
  164. Hello Kitty To The Stars
  165. Opera Goes WebKit
  166. Not Crushing It
  167. Adventures In App Marketing
  168. The Little Things
  169. Springsteen and an Atlanta Shave
  170. Good Luck, Michael Dell
  171. The Only Startup Decision-Making Question You’ll Need
  172. The Case For Direct Cable Channel Subscriptions
  173. Serendipity
  174. Middle Earth, The Map
  175. For Amusement Only: The Life and Death of the American Arcade
  176. Fly To The Moon!
  177. Lotus 1-2-3 Turns 30
  178. Apple v. Samsung: Real World Example Of Our Horrible Patent System
  179. Growing Into The Job
  180. My Possessed iPad
  181. The Last Roll of Kodachrome
  182. Single User Utility In A Social System
  183. The Key To Entrepreneurship
  184. On Grammar
  185. Luck
  186. Wayne Dobson Doesn’t Have Your Cell Phone
  187. Who Owns Your UX Philosophy?
  188. Apple’s Churning Of The Gut
  189. “Shipping A Product Is A Lot Of Work”
  190. The Key To Freemium Subscription Conversion
  191. The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins
  192. A Lifetime Endeavor
  193. The Future of Tablets
  194. The Case For Weakening iOS App Store Sales
  195. Making The Most
  196. The Innocent Man
  197. Apple’s Original iPhone Was A Minimum Viable Product
  198. A Look Back At 2012

2012 251

  1. The Small Things
  2. Startup Doesn’t Equal VC
  3. Other People’s Thoughts On Product Definitions
  4. Word Of Mouth Starts Before Launch
  5. The Rules Are The Rules
  6. Discontinuing Services The Right Way
  7. The Mom Test
  8. Managing the Financials
  9. Goal Creep
  10. powerOne for Samsung Smartphones/Tablets Now Available
  11. Celebration Of New Life
  12. The Wrong Meaning Of Web
  13. The 0.0001%
  14. More On Free Versus Paid Apps
  15. Hippocratic Oath Of Revenue Models
  16. Biopsy-versary
  17. The Devil’s In The Details: Designing a Login Screen
  18. Entrepreneurshit
  19. What Made Build & Analyze Special
  20. The Future of Apps Is Free
  21. Just Do Something
  22. The Relative Cost of Stuff
  23. Freedman Movie Rating System – Part 2
  24. Freedman Movie Rating System – Part 1
  25. Amazon’s Appstore Opportunities
  26. The Most Interesting Election Stat Ever
  27. The Ongoing Saga Of Mass Confusion
  28. The Fight
  29. Amazon at Mobile Portland on Monday November 12
  30. My Daughters Review The iPad mini
  31. The Next Decade For Microsoft
  32. Searching For A New Doctrine
  33. Opinionated
  34. Indiana Jones Denied Tenure
  35. The Law of New Media
  36. Grow Fast, Grow Organic
  37. Living Through Hurricane Andrew
  38. Writing Apps From The Bottom Up
  39. Seeing The Future
  40. Sucked Into The Undertow
  41. Why Microsoft May Still Have Game
  42. The Right People
  43. The State of Civility
  44. 2012 Summer Reading List
  45. The Rotted Corpse of Newsweek Goes Online Only
  46. Overcoming Ignorance: The Search For Good News Sources
  47. The Forgotten Social Web May Not Be So Forgotten
  48. Why Vision Is Critical
  49. The Next Frontier: Digital Tickets
  50. powerOne Calculator for Android Beta Now Available
  51. Kindle Paperwhite
  52. Little Money For App Developers
  53. In The Transition
  54. Business In A Bubble
  55. An Interview With a Comic
  56. Hacking Away On The Bleeding Edge
  57. Businesses, Like Babies, Take Time To Develop
  58. The Next 1000 Customers
  59. Buying Developers Or A Cut Of The Profits?
  60. Honda, Lane Assist and Blind Spot Cameras
  61. Apologizing In Advance For Even Writing A Post About Apple’s Maps App
  62. The iPhone 5
  63. powerOne and the 4″ Screens
  64. Redo
  65. The Amazing Mister Teller & Other Fabulous Tales
  66. Upgrading Sucks
  67. Expanding the Mobile OS Scrum: Here Comes Firefox OS
  68. What Comes First, Users or Business Model?
  69. Why The New iPod Nano Is Interesting
  70. Stuff I’ve Bought
  71. New Product Lifecycle Graph
  72. The Creative Process Graph
  73. Misunderstanding Freemium
  74. Stuffing Sausages and The Evolution of Products
  75. On The iPhone 5 and Apple Numbering Schemes
  76. The Atomic Unit of a Product/Service
  77. Reflection
  78. A Very Controversial Programming Opinion
  79. The Problem With Software Patents
  80. Powering Your Own Nuclear Facility Via Amazon.com
  81. When Everything Else Is Gone, All I Have Left Is Passion
  82. Who’s Making Money in Mobile Apps?
  83. Start With Free, Or Start With Freemium?
  84. AT&T Rolls Out Mobile Share Plan
  85. Marvin Hinshaw
  86. Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
  87. I Stopped Listening After You Said “I could easily get sign-ups to double.” Go Do That.
  88. “Focus On Free And the Emium Will Follow”
  89. Size Doesn’t Matter (Anymore)
  90. Live By The Platform, Die By The Platform
  91. Hulu+ Fail
  92. Rewarding Those Who Care Enough To Write
  93. Evernote, The Exception To The Rule?
  94. My Processes Are Being Destroyed
  95. Olympic History, Visualized
  96. Minimum Viable Product Does Not Imply Speed
  97. When There’s Little Going On…
  98. Circles of Marketing
  99. Strong Opinions Loosely Held
  100. The $13,000 Taxi Ride
  101. RIM Dies, Waterloo Cries
  102. A Little R&R
  103. Google v. Everyone
  104. Micro Apps Suck
  105. The Camera You Have With You
  106. A Simple Marketing Quiz
  107. Why Microsoft Is Struggling
  108. The Gold Rush Never Started
  109. Tagfee
  110. What Are You Building and What Does It Do?
  111. Mobile App Marketing — A Panel
  112. Breaking Down Android Devices and OS Version [Survey Results]
  113. Finding Excellently Curated News at The Evening Edition
  114. Managers v. Leaders
  115. Of Android and powerOne Praise
  116. Exploding Baseballs
  117. I Need Someone To Curate The News
  118. The Problem With Building History In the Digital Era
  119. The Future of Touch, Before The iPhone
  120. The Original iPhone Wasn’t The First Pocket Computer But It Was The Best
  121. Search Changes, Falling Sales and a powerOne First (With Data!)
  122. Declaration of Internet Freedom
  123. Old Farts Know How to Code
  124. 100% Effort, 10% Return
  125. A Lifetime Of Learning Something New
  126. Eat Or Be Eaten
  127. My Top 15 Bloggers
  128. App Stores Are No Place To Make Money
  129. iOS Search Store Algorithm Changes, Throws This Developer For A Loop
  130. The Awesome Levitating Slinky
  131. Watching The Apps Go By -or- 2 Of The 3 Percenters
  132. Microsoft Surface: Awesome Looking Vaporware
  133. Apple WWDC Impressions: On The Verge Of Something Spectacular
  134. Seeing Perfection
  135. My 2012 WWDC Wish List (User Edition)
  136. Jeff Bezos’ Regret-Minimization Framework
  137. 24-Months Until Carriers Become A Data-Only Pipe?
  138. Forget iOS 6. I Want Improved App Store Tools For WWDC.
  139. Meeting Senators Wyden and Cantwell
  140. The End of Cable (In My House)
  141. Breaking Rules: Either Business Model or Product, But Not Both
  142. The Search For Simple
  143. Reason #345,968 I’m Glad I Don’t Live In Florida Anymore
  144. What Would John Cleese Do?
  145. The Funding Conundrum
  146. Pitch Perfect: Learn How To Promote Your App To Bloggers
  147. The Hierarchy of Innovation
  148. Killing US Education: Emphasizing Competition Over Creativity
  149. Is Bipartisanship Bad For Us?
  150. Android Fragmentation In Picture and Song
  151. Amazon Kindle Thoughts
  152. Activities Of Ages Past
  153. Solve A Problem, Not A Feature Set
  154. Is it Belief? Or Delusion?
  155. Wild Things Live Forever
  156. Mobile App Consolidation At The Tipping Point
  157. A Federation of Niches
  158. App Counts Don’t Win Platform Wars
  159. No Sprinting Here. It’s All A Marathon.
  160. Cotton Head
  161. Innovation Lacking on Math Show Floor
  162. People Pivot, Too
  163. Missing A Day Feels Like Missing a Lifetime
  164. Fight The Power or Go With the Flow?
  165. App Galore!
  166. Better Products Through Documentation
  167. Anxiety
  168. Former RIM Boss Sought Strategy Shift Before He Quit
  169. Apps to Apple: powerOne Version 3 Awaiting Review
  170. Internet Freedom Is An Understatement
  171. The Tension Between Simple and Obvious
  172. Announcing powerOne version 3
  173. Android Is Fragmented. How to Deal With it.
  174. Pulling for RIM
  175. Why RIM Could Thrive If It Could Extract Its Head From Its Rear End
  176. Escalating Smartphone Sales Means Slowing App Sales
  177. App Rejections Are a Lousy Way to Communicate Policy Changes
  178. The Reading Click Point
  179. Subversiveness
  180. It Took Me 15 Years To Figure Out My Professional Theme
  181. The Features That Make Us Drool
  182. The Guts Of An Old Machine
  183. Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
  184. We Are All Failures Until We Are Not
  185. It’s Not iPad (3) That Has Me Impressed, It’s iPhoto
  186. The Startup Curve Looks Way Too Familiar
  187. Rationalizing Rash Decisions
  188. Changing the World, One Entrepreneurial Teen At A Time
  189. On Naming Macs and iPads
  190. Spam Comments
  191. The iPad Isn’t Even As Good As My Three Year Old
  192. App Store Table Scraps
  193. Android Store Rebranded Google Play
  194. Could Apple Announce iPhoto for iPad and Enhanced PhotoStream This Week?
  195. Why Did You Start Your Business?
  196. Prompts
  197. Great Presentation By Corey Pressman On The Post-Book
  198. TV Is Broken
  199. The Awesomeness That Is VoiceOver
  200. Japan, An Early Mover In Mobile, Trails The U.S., Others In Smartphones
  201. My iPad 3 Wish: Writing Support
  202. Three Magic Numbers
  203. The End of the “Provide For Me” Era
  204. Growing Up
  205. Happy Valentine’s Day
  206. Pointing The Finger At Everyone Else
  207. A Billion Dollars … One Dollar At A Time
  208. Solving Hollywood’s Problems (While Giving Me What I Want)
  209. Goodbye, FU Bob
  210. Choose: Win the Battle or Win the War
  211. Thinking About The Product Box Theory of Marketing
  212. Changing the Textbook Isn’t Enough. The Teacher-Student Relationship Must Change, Too.
  213. The Mobile App Price of Free Is The Future
  214. Cannibalism Rules Again As Cameras Die Just Like Pagers and Handhelds
  215. Apparently I Won’t Be Watching Warner Brothers Movies
  216. Why I’m Writing More and Other Life-Changing Decisions
  217. What Will Apple Do With $100 Billion?
  218. Guessing Ones Way To Success
  219. Owning Hollywood, Apple Style
  220. Once We Have Attention Then We Only Have Trust
  221. Breaking Our Oaths Of Office
  222. SOPA: A Fundamental Question Of Trust
  223. SOPA/PIPA Backers Still Don’t Get It
  224. The Thing I Can’t Stop Thinking About From Yesterday’s Apple Announcement
  225. What Are You Waiting For?
  226. How SOPA/PIPA Make Apple’s Position Stronger
  227. The Educational Jig Is Up: Why The Publishing Industry Is Motivated To Move
  228. Applauding Decision
  229. The Single Box Theory of Software Design
  230. Isn’t This Part of What OWS and Tea Party Are Fighting?
  231. The Device Family Has Become The Development Platform
  232. Defining Entrepreneurs
  233. Friction
  234. Microsoft Rising
  235. Yeah! More Crap In My Google Search!
  236. BlackoutSOPA
  237. Finally! Consumable Hardware Comes to Windows!
  238. Gone
  239. Prediction Meets Notification: Siri’s Next Step
  240. Entertaining Idiots
  241. Rumors of US Death Greatly Exaggerated
  242. I Wish I’d Invented Kickstarter
  243. Disruptive Only In a Rear-View Mirror
  244. Slamming the Scales Back to Apple
  245. The 100 Device Wall
  246. I Want a Movement to End Cables In My Living Room
  247. RIM’s Window Dressing: Fire the Chairpersons
  248. Who’s Your Daddy and What’s Your Killer Feature?
  249. webOS Failed From Lack of Oxygen, Nothing More, Nothing Less
  250. Finding Your Inner Milkshake
  251. 2012: Ending the Gatekeepers

2011 53

  1. To Android or Not To Android
  2. Get Mad.
  3. Storm Victims Missing Their powerOne Calculator
  4. Obsession Times Voice: Take-Aways
  5. An Unbelievably Awesome Retail Experience
  6. Craftsman in the Modern Era
  7. Magic, Inside and Out
  8. RIM Never Learns, Shoots Self in Foot Again
  9. Bijan on Believers
  10. A Major Transition and Why The Future Is Bright
  11. Thoughts on Jobs
  12. Building Loyalty
  13. My Ears Are On Fire
  14. No Time Like the Present To Make Your Future
  15. Bringing the App To You
  16. Taking Responsibility
  17. Start with the End In Mind: Switching Business Models is Hard
  18. Waiting for Something Amazing
  19. If I Was Running…
  20. Talking to Myself about Google, Motorola and webOS
  21. Google’s Rights… and Wrongs
  22. Is Profit or Market Share More Important: The Android-iOS Case Study
  23. Laws and Sausages
  24. Building a Mobile Device Lab
  25. The Art of the Move
  26. Surprise! BlackBerry Playbook Struggles At Retail
  27. Obsessing on Fame
  28. The Fallacy of Mobile App Versus Web
  29. Will Amazon Upset The Google Shopping Cart?
  30. Beware The Giant Footsteps
  31. All I Want for WWDC Is My Two Front Teeth
  32. Generational Technology Change Means New Winners
  33. Right Message, Right Time
  34. Popping the Android-iOS/Windows-Mac OS Bubble
  35. Innovation By Limiting Options
  36. A Tale of Two Companies
  37. Start-Ups Need Capital, Product, Customers. Which Do You Bring?
  38. Goodbye, Grandpa.
  39. Reality Catches Up to Android
  40. Apple and RIM and Android, oh my!
  41. My Past and Calculation’s Future: A Teaser
  42. Computer Science Is a Misnomer
  43. MS-Nokia Is Deja-Vu All Over Again
  44. The Entrepreneurial Life
  45. The Power of Your Own App
  46. Thank You, IBM
  47. The best you can do is iOS is Cool and Android is Open???
  48. Nokia, HP and RIM, oh my!
  49. Tablet Wars and iPad Ship Dates
  50. My Founder’s Buzz Interview
  51. Does the Apple-Verizon Deal Change the War on Carriers?
  52. A New Year, A New Perspective: Web Economics in an App World
  53. Apple Will Dominate Tablets

2010 52

  1. Winning the Mobile Market Share Wars
  2. Tell Me It Can’t Be Done
  3. Why RIM Is Flailing
  4. Are You the Customer or the Product?
  5. Will 2011 Be Good To BlackBerry?
  6. Palm To Partners: Bend Over
  7. Apps Are Not Software
  8. Now There’s An App For That
  9. Today’s Leaders Are Not Tomorrow’s Winners
  10. Amazon, WP7 and Market Competition
  11. And The Award For Best Vaporware Goes To…
  12. Fighting Back: What You Can Do
  13. Fighting The Wrong Fight
  14. Road Trips and the iPad
  15. Cloud Nine
  16. Good Google/Bad Google
  17. Market Share Doesn’t Equal Product Sales
  18. Competing On Price Is Bad Policy
  19. The Silicon Valley Distortion Field
  20. A City in Mourning, Again
  21. Innovate or Die: Lessons From BlockBuster Applied to powerOne
  22. The Economics of Fear
  23. Quick Thought On Each Mobile OS Company
  24. Apple, Verizon and the Sound of Deflating Balloons
  25. 28 Day Rental Window Is Stupid
  26. powerOne Honored As Staff Pick
  27. Free Doesn’t Mean Cheap: powerOne Lite Introduced
  28. WWDC Aftermath
  29. WWDC 2010/Predicting Apple’s Future
  30. A few thoughts on WWDC, Google I/O and the iPad
  31. Mobile App or Mobile Web?
  32. Palm: 10 Years Of a Poorly Run Public Company
  33. Stealing Is Wrong, No Matter What The Gain
  34. A Modicum of Success!
  35. The 5.94 Billion Person Market Opportunity
  36. Twitter, Apple and the Paradox of Partnering
  37. A Crazy Couple Of Weeks
  38. Apple and the Mainstream Tipping Point
  39. Higher Taxes, Less Services A Thing of the Present
  40. Some Lessons I Need To Learn Twice
  41. Why Infinity Softworks Focuses on iPhone
  42. Lawsuits and the Ebb and Flow of Tech
  43. Adobe Flash, iPhone Invade My Dreams
  44. Post MWC Mobile Round-Up
  45. Web Browsers: Power User Feature
  46. Apple is Open… and So Is Android and Windows and…
  47. Why the Recall Should Improve Your Faith in Toyota
  48. Of iPad, Grandmothers and Cross Country Flights
  49. Gazing Into a Smartphone Crystal Ball: 2010 Edition
  50. Of powerOne and Differentiators
  51. Developers Perspective: Strengths/Weaknesses of Mobile Platforms
  52. Of Android, iPhone and Mobile Development

2009 49

  1. Mobile Site v. App: A Project Manager’s Guide
  2. Vonage: How To Make Your Customers Disloyal
  3. The Real Apple-Developer Goal
  4. Open Mouth, Insert Foot
  5. Should Apple Care that Facebook’s iPhone App Developer Quit?
  6. In Search of the Holy Grail
  7. I Don’t Hear The Fat Lady
  8. Winning When Software Is Less Than Free
  9. Wealth Wins the World Series… Again
  10. Picking a Niche
  11. Searching For Change
  12. Troubling Signs for iPhone App Development
  13. Private/Public Company Too Polar, Need a New Option
  14. Sidekick Disaster: Bad for Users; Great for Web Apps
  15. BlackBerry Alliance Program An Insult To Developers
  16. A Weekend Without the Internet
  17. A New Perspective on Fund Raising
  18. The New Business Model Axiom
  19. Palm Pre, FastFigures and powerOne
  20. Transformation of “Must Have”
  21. Psychology of iPhone Pricing
  22. Cheap or Free?
  23. Two World’s Apart
  24. Leaving the V, Entering the W
  25. Brand Power
  26. Is The Sky Really Falling?
  27. Spreadsheet Redux
  28. CubeSpace: Two Lessons from a Failed Endeavor
  29. FastFigures v2: From Good to Great
  30. Does Anti-Trust Pressure Force Apple, Palm To Play Nice?
  31. Testing to Beta Stinks
  32. Smart Thinking Destroyed By iPhone Gold Rush
  33. Building an iPhone Business
  34. At Apple’s Mercy
  35. A Light Moment In A Dreary Week
  36. Lessons Learned: One Month in the iPhone AppStore
  37. Economic Short Shots
  38. The User Review Tipping Point
  39. The First Shot
  40. Today I Am A Marketer
  41. Having Business Problems? Keep Going.
  42. Introducing FastFigures Mobile for iPhone and iPod Touch
  43. To Flash or Not To Flash? That’s The Question
  44. Waiting on a Winning Streak: Infinity Softworks Closes a New Funding Round
  45. Costs To Do Business, Then and Now
  46. One Programmer’s Lament
  47. Loyalty Part 2
  48. Loyalty Part 1
  49. Happy Birthday Infinity Softworks

2008 46

  1. The New Palm. Same As The Old Palm?
  2. Economic Downturns Are Good For Business
  3. Dear Microsoft
  4. A Tail of Two BlackBerries
  5. Company Foundations: Money, Vision and Timing
  6. Rating Mobile Platforms for Development
  7. Is Google Gears A Mobile Development Game-Changer?
  8. Government Spending Through Business Eyes
  9. Thankless Job of Playing Cop
  10. Responsibility As a Four Letter Word
  11. Touchscreen Wars
  12. Financial Crisis: A Layman’s Understanding
  13. The Truth Behind Generation Gaps
  14. If You Are Not Mad, You Should Be
  15. Be different. Just not too different.
  16. FastFigures Mobile for iPhone: An Introduction
  17. Great Books: Four Steps to the Epiphany
  18. The Long Tail and Mobile Software Development
  19. Master Chaa’s Got It All Figured Out
  20. A Recipe for Beating Apple
  21. Sports and Doping: Where’s the Scandal?
  22. Shut Up and Listen
  23. iPhone Software – PalmPilot Redux
  24. Opening the Closed Door
  25. Windows Mobile: Dead or Alive?
  26. MobileMe Could Make Me a Convert
  27. Introducing FastFigures, Web-based Calculation and Reporting
  28. Financial Discovery
  29. iPhone v. BlackBerry: Which to Choose?
  30. Seeing Bubbles
  31. Doing The Right Thing
  32. Email Is Not Communication
  33. Summing Up Economic Woe
  34. Tech Support: Key Indicator of Company Success
  35. Beating A Dead Horse: Mobile Web, Mobile Web, Mobile Web
  36. Constant Connectivity Just Around The Bend
  37. Photoshop Online: Web Apps, More Proof!
  38. Gazing Into My Looking Glass: 700Mhz Spectrum Edition
  39. Apple: Ego and Elegance
  40. Mobile Destiny: The Crossroads Approach
  41. Work-Life Balance: Is It Possible?
  42. How Not To Win In the Market
  43. Island or Peninsula?
  44. Life at Infinity Softworks: 11 Years Come and Gone
  45. Lighter is Better
  46. Thinking About CES: Big Trade Show A Thing Of The Past

2007 26

  1. Quicken Online: Web Apps, Here We Come!
  2. Fear and the US Economy
  3. Palm: A Love Story
  4. An Industry In Transition
  5. New Platform Development Challenges
  6. Peering Into The Future
  7. Mobile Video: Broken Business Models Spells Doom for Network TV
  8. UGH! 3 Million Platforms with 100 Users Each
  9. Economy In Flux: Creativity as the Third Wave
  10. The Efficiency Advantage
  11. The Missing Link: Defining the Information Pad
  12. Market Growth Will Come Again So Get Ready Now
  13. Question 1: Who Leads? Question 2: Who Cares?
  14. Product Inefficiency = Third-Party Opportunity: PIM Edition
  15. Consumer Responsibility At Center Of Mortgage Lunacy
  16. Random Quotes from Random Minds
  17. Searching For Answers, Finding More Questions
  18. Looking Back Before Moving Forward
  19. The Next Era Has Begun
  20. Key To Success – Not What You Think
  21. Picking a Smartphone: 7 Criteria To Help You Out
  22. BlackBerry… Meet powerOne
  23. Flash: It’s Not Just For Naked People Anymore
  24. The Skinny on BlackBerry Smartphones
  25. Is Palm Foleo making mobility easier?
  26. Welcome!