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2025 1

  1. What is generative AI doing to the software industry?

2023 1

  1. How does Amazon think about devices?

2020 2

  1. We’re not as divided as we think we are
  2. Q. Are the big tech companies guilty of antitrust violations? A. It doesn't matter, they will probably be punished anyway

2018 2

  1. Here Comes the Hammer: The Tech Industry's Three Crises
  2. VR Cinema: Keep Trying

2017 1

  1. Amazon, Whole Foods, and the Shopping Experience

2016 2

  1. The Tech Industry and the Return of the Zero-Sum Game
  2. Why Trump Won: Fairness and Change

2014 10

  1. The Real Meaning of the Fire Phone
  2. What Happened to the Surface Mini?
  3. Is Microsoft About to Announce an Info Pad?
  4. The Uncomfortable Truth at the Heart of Mobile Gaming
  5. It’s Time to Pay Attention to Facebook
  6. Introducing iPierce
  7. More Thoughts on Facebook/Oculus
  8. Facebook, Ego, and Oculus Rift
  9. Google the Conglomerate: After Nest, No Industry is Safe
  10. Wearability is Not Enough

2013 11

  1. Has Microsoft Gone Nuts?
  2. Microsoft + Nokia: Now We’re All Like Apple
  3. Google Logic: Why Google Does the Things it Does
  4. Style vs. Substance in Mobile Software
  5. Announcing "Map the Future," a Better Way to Create Business Strategy
  6. It’s Time to Reinvent the Personal Computer
  7. The Dell Buyout: Storm Warning for the Tech Industry
  8. The Real Story Behind Google’s Street View Program
  9. Why it’s Hard to Set a Standard and Maximize Short-Term Profit
  10. Kevin Lynch and Adobe: Shooting the Messenger
  11. Coming Soon: My Book on Business Strategy

2012 18

  1. The Windows 8 Muddle
  2. "Social" as a Business Tool, and Richard Windsor Unchained
  3. The Unanswered Question About Apple Maps
  4. Judging Apple: It's Really (Still) About Steve
  5. The Seductive Foolishness of a Facebook Phone
  6. Quick Takes: RIM's Marketing, Microsoft Takes Even More Risks, and A Lesson from Digg
  7. The Coming Age of the Context Engine
  8. Fear and Loathing and Windows 8
  9. Yahoo: The Worst Way Ever to Pick a Corporate Strategy
  10. The "Bubble" and What's Really Going on with Startups
  11. Apple is Not Sony
  12. The Two Faces of RIM
  13. Rebuilding RIM
  14. Twitter at Gettysburg
  15. The Real Significance of the New iPad
  16. OS Licensing and Firewalls: That's Not the Point
  17. Information Overload: Several Different Problems Under a Single Name
  18. Why Web OS Really Failed, and What it Means for the Rest of Us

2011 29

  1. A New Survey on Information Management
  2. Lessons From the Failure of Flash: Greed Kills
  3. Amazon vs. Apple? No, it's Amazon and Apple vs. Everyone Else
  4. Happy Birthday, Business Computing
  5. The Two Most Dangerous Words in Technology Marketing
  6. Thanks, Steve
  7. I'm Speaking at Mobile 2.0
  8. The Part of Palm that Smartphone Companies Should be Bidding For
  9. Google and Motorola: What the #@!*%?
  10. The Case for Software Patents
  11. Quick Takes: Logitech's Misstep, Nokia's New Names and Fonts
  12. How to Shape the Mobile Data Market
  13. The Truth about the Wireless Bandwidth "Crisis"
  14. Who Will Pay for Mobile Data?
  15. What's Next for RIM?
  16. Windows 8: The Beginning of the End of Windows
  17. Can Google's Chromebook Break Windows?
  18. Goodbye, IBM. Seriously.
  19. Quick Takes: The RIM Tragedy, Lame Market Research, Ebooks Closer to Tipping, Flip vs. Cisco, Google as Microsoft, Nokia and the Word "Primary"
  20. The Real Lesson of Cisco's Billion-Dollar Flip Debacle
  21. The Five Most Colossal Tech Industry Failures You've Never Heard Of
  22. Quick Takes: Nokia's culture, RIM's interface, and living in the paradigm of engineers
  23. The Info Pad Creeps Closer
  24. This is why it's so much fun to do business with the mobile operators
  25. Impact of the Nokia-Microsoft Alliance: Welcome to the Five-Platform World
  26. Nokia: Now Comes the Hard Part
  27. Nokia: An Excess of Cleverness
  28. Quick Thoughts on the HP Announcement
  29. Fearless Predictions for 2011

2010 21

  1. RIM's Q3 Financials: A Tale of Two BlackBerries
  2. Is Symbian dead? And if so, who killed it?
  3. Will E-Readers Eat the Tablet Computer?
  4. What is Samsung thinking?
  5. What's really wrong with BlackBerry (and what to do about it)
  6. Why did Apple give in?
  7. And now for something completely different
  8. What I would have told the BBC about the Apple iPhone antenna, if they'd actually wanted to hear it
  9. Apple, Adobe, and Openness: Let's Get Real
  10. Quick thoughts on Palm and HP
  11. Lessons From the Fall of Palm
  12. A dissenting view on the Yahoo - New York Times merger
  13. The future of publishing: Why ebooks failed in 2000, and what that means for 2010
  14. Browsing the web for $10,000 an hour
  15. How many Kindles have really been sold? (And other interesting tidbits about ebooks)
  16. I'm speaking about ebooks in New York this month
  17. iPad: The (attempted) Windows killer
  18. Two geeks watch the Apple announcement
  19. Quick take on the Apple iPad: It's a PC, sort of
  20. Reckless speculation about the Apple tablet
  21. Google shoots itself in the foot in mobile

2009 22

  1. The mobile data apocalypse, and what it means to you
  2. The OS is always greener...
  3. Which mobile apps are making good money?
  4. A web guy and a telecom guy talk about net neutrality
  5. Is Apple too powerful?
  6. Four questions about the Microsoft-Nokia alliance
  7. Nokia and Microsoft, sittin' in a tree...
  8. Google Chrome OS: Opening a vein in Redmond
  9. Two videos for mobile app developers
  10. Symbian: Evolving toward open
  11. A quick history of software platforms: How we got here, and where we're going
  12. Microsoft: What could have been
  13. The lesson from OQO
  14. Checking in on smartphone and Twitter usage
  15. The ugliest logo ever, but maybe it makes sense
  16. Thoughts on the tech industry bailout
  17. Watch out for RIM
  18. Speech recognition: Almost ready for mobile prime time
  19. News flash: Microsoft lied
  20. The Palm Pre: Think Similar
  21. Welcome to the real world
  22. Will the mobile phone really eat the PC?

2008 33

  1. Nokia: Running in molasses
  2. Proposition 8 and community review sites: Everyone loses
  3. Mobile data: Be careful what you wish for
  4. The Influencers are dead. Or not.
  5. Everything you always wanted to know about web community, and then some
  6. App stores and APIs: It's the ecosystem, stupid
  7. Conference time
  8. Does anybody really know what smartphone market share is?
  9. Only 10% of Japanese people know how to use all the functions in their mobile phones
  10. Hypenotized by Apple
  11. The end of the dream
  12. Symbian changes everything, and nothing
  13. Thoughts on the 3G iPhone announcement
  14. Nokia goes for 1% market share in the US
  15. WiMax gets closer and further away at the same time
  16. Adobe frees mobile flash: It's about time
  17. The sad (but respectable) demise of Microsoft Spot
  18. Some other things you didn't know about iPhone users
  19. Announcing a new survey of iPhone users
  20. The spontaneous society
  21. How to make a college basketball fan very, very happy
  22. Maybe it's possible to have too many developers
  23. The iPhone SDK: Apple gets it right
  24. Nokia and Microsoft, sittin' in a tree...
  25. The three laws of technology strategy
  26. Following up on "Mobile Applications, RIP"
  27. Mobile applications, RIP
  28. What would you like to ask the mobile OS companies at CTIA?
  29. How to beat Google (and why Microsoft + Yahoo probably won't do it)
  30. Q. What do you get when you combine Yahoo and Microsoft?
  31. Nokia, the OS company
  32. MacBook Air: Object of lust or awkward compromise?
  33. Mobile Device of the Year, 2007

2007 61

  1. Another example of why the tech industry and mobile operators don't get along
  2. Questions about Verizon's new "open" attitude
  3. Amazon Kindle: Not a home run, but an interesting start
  4. Palm OS on Nokia: Strategy or tactic?
  5. Google's Android revealed: Component software for the mobile world
  6. Google, the OS company
  7. Carnival of the Mobilists 98: Hey Google, Trick or Treat?
  8. O'Reilly Web 2.0 Summit: No Cave of Wonders
  9. What's more insecure, the iPhone or Apple?
  10. Who's really using web apps, and why?
  11. The deceptive allure of the sub-PC
  12. The war between Nokia and Apple
  13. This is what happens in technology price cuts
  14. Foleo, we hardly knew ye
  15. The (partial) state of the mobile data market
  16. A new way to measure the popularity of the iPhone
  17. Impact of Amazon Flexible Payments Service: Computing as a utility
  18. Why I work in the tech industry
  19. Exactly how many iPhones did you really sell, Mr. Jobs?
  20. Design lessons from the Nintendo Wii
  21. What we're learning from Web apps, part 3: Breeding new types of media
  22. Why is Apple porting its browser to Windows? To take over the world, of course.
  23. Mobile video: Is there a there there?
  24. Good deal: Palm's new ownership
  25. Palm Foleo: It's a PC, dummy
  26. Nokia, the computer company?
  27. Apple's industrial design: The value of a decisive bastard with good taste
  28. Mobile phones and navigation: I've seen this movie before
  29. Carnival of the Mobilists #70: Is RIM stupid or lying?
  30. How vs. what: Why so many new tech products fail
  31. New offers for startups, and established companies that need insight fast
  32. Why Web 2.0 still doesn't cut it for mobile devices
  33. Going to Web 2 Expo
  34. An early look at the ultimate social networking tool
  35. Sprint to Hollywood and Silicon Valley: Drop Dead
  36. Seven Companies That Aren't Rumored to be Buying Palm, But Really Should Be
  37. How to really piss off a college basketball fan
  38. Suggestion Box
  39. eTel: The open source phone crowd talks to itself
  40. What you read in the news (and in blogs) isn't reality: An example
  41. Can we please stop talking about convergence?
  42. What we're learning from Web apps, part two: Community = shared obsession
  43. Jeff Hawkins will show the new baby in May
  44. The people who say Web 2.0 apps are garbage are completely right -- and utterly wrong
  45. Going to the Emerging Telephony conference
  46. The rise of the information ecosystem: How mobile devices, personal computing, media, and the Internet all fit together
  47. Vote for the mobile post of the year
  48. Even in Japan, there's no one "killer" mobile data application
  49. The operators' "secret" plan to destroy Google. Yeah, right.
  50. How the mobile industry sets itself up for failure in mobile data
  51. Reading between the lines on patents
  52. Where people use mobile data
  53. The shape of the smartphone and mobile data markets
  54. Is Vista the end of Windows?
  55. The iPhone is not a phone
  56. Vote for the best mobile post of the month
  57. Why can't you add software to the iPhone? Because of Windows.
  58. Impact of the Apple iPhone
  59. Raw commentary on the iPhone announcement
  60. Apple's iPhone: That isn't a phone, it's a PDA done right
  61. Sprint and WiMax: Are these guys serious?

2006 73

  1. Mobile gaming in Japan: A different world
  2. Hollywood's view of the Web: Through a glass, strangely
  3. Understanding Palm: What Ed Colligan really said
  4. Will flat-rate pricing make mobile data take off?
  5. Testing a new template
  6. Phones = cars
  7. Palm gets its OS back
  8. Jeff Hawkins' "secret" project is coming next year
  9. The Cluetrain Manifesto revisited
  10. Symbian unloads UIQ, and the mobile apps situation gets clearer -- and uglier
  11. How to segment the market for a new product
  12. Sprint recalls an Ambassador
  13. Applying market research to product strategy
  14. Who reads Carnival of the Mobilists?
  15. Will the smartphone kill the PC?
  16. SaaS vs. Web 2.0
  17. Carnival of the Mobilists #49
  18. Will Moore's Law slow down?
  19. Facing reality in the mobile industry
  20. Understanding the full impact of the web
  21. RIM's Pearl: Splendid hardware, unfinished software
  22. The river and the dam: CTIA and The Future of Web Apps
  23. Good luck naming your phones, Nokia
  24. European vs. American mobile phone use
  25. Going to CTIA
  26. What if Palm made a smartphone and nobody cared?
  27. What is Google's search share, really?
  28. What a difference three years makes
  29. The online revolution in market research
  30. Carnival of the Mobilists #37
  31. Dell's flaming laptop hits the big time
  32. The trouble with home video
  33. We need a new mobile platform. Sort of.
  34. How Big Clock Saved My Neighborhood
  35. The mobile Linux grand alliance
  36. Why are mobile application sales dropping?
  37. Trouble with a 3G smart phone
  38. Why Apple + RIM would be a bad idea
  39. Understanding market research
  40. The wiki: Society as designed by a computer engineer
  41. Flash versus Windows: Can Adobe break Microsoft?
  42. Desperately Seeking the Info Pad
  43. Congratulations Dave "Mr. Webby" Garr
  44. Removing the Middleman, Part 3: Books
  45. Thank-yous to two mobile forums
  46. The futility of high tech forecasting
  47. Why Google got hammered for its China policy
  48. American Idol and the future of online market research
  49. Simmering at CTIA
  50. (Re)Announcing Stop Flying Blind, my second weblog
  51. Almost Live from Software 2006
  52. Implications of the Google-Sprint merger
  53. The Zen of Product Management
  54. A fun read
  55. Going to CTIA
  56. News flash: KPMG discovers world is round
  57. What's going on in Japan?
  58. The single-chip smartphone sideshow
  59. Access Linux Platform and the future of Palm OS
  60. A glimpse of the future: the multi-touch screen
  61. Will HP's new mobile organization make changes?
  62. Microsoft vs. RIM Blackberry: This time we mean it (sort of)
  63. How to read tech analysts' shipment reports and forecasts
  64. The turning point creeps closer in music
  65. Removing the Middleman, Part 2: Music
  66. LifeDrive: Palm's own eierlegende Wollmilchsau
  67. Which mobile device companies get it?
  68. Removing the Middleman, part 1
  69. Is browsing the mobile data killer app?
  70. I'll take that bet
  71. Google Video: Is that all there is?
  72. Thanks for the award!
  73. Does the mobile OS matter?

2005 22

  1. Is it safe to buy Palm or RIM devices?
  2. NTT DoCoMo buys 11.66% of Palm OS. Watch this space.
  3. Is Symbian’s ownership a house of cards?
  4. Quick notes: a computing radio show, and custom shoes on the web
  5. "Software as a service" misses the point
  6. Microsoft and the quest for the low-cost smartphone
  7. Google to sell thin client computers?
  8. Revisionist history
  9. Bring on the Singularity!
  10. Look what's number one
  11. Be nice to the wiki
  12. Motorola Rokr: Instant Failure
  13. Google offers WiFi to Mountain View
  14. Web 3.0
  15. How not to market a smartphone
  16. Google Base: Is eBay really the target?
  17. Helio talks the right story
  18. A modern marriage proposal
  19. What does Google want?
  20. The myth of the smartphone market
  21. Nokia's new e-mail phones
  22. About this blog...