2009–2013
200 posts
2013 191
December 2013
- Christmas Gifts and the Meaning of Design
- The China Mobile iPhone is specific to China Mobile
- Misunderstood
- Subsidization and Saturation
- Instagram Direct, Twitter DMs, and the Social/Communications Map
- Intel’s Missed "Opportunity"
- Promotion in the App Store
- China Mobile Adds the iPhone Follow-up
- Apple, China Mobile Sign Deal to Offer iPhone
- Amazon and the Benefits of Vision
- Apple’s Black Friday Deal Was a Missed Opportunity
November 2013
- Happy Thanksgiving
- Whose iPad Life?
- Scroogled
- The Social/Communications Map
- The Multitudes of Social
- Microsoft kills stack ranking
- WSJ: Apple Finds Surprising Growth Market in Japan
- A Technological Optimist, but Just
- Skating Towards the Goal
October 2013
- Intel seizes their opportunity
- Podcast: Vector – Missing the iPad Magic
- The Magical iPad
- The Missing "Why" of the iPad
- Whither Liberal Arts?
- iPad Predictions, Revisited
- So the 5S is (allegedly) killing the 5C. Why is this bad news?
- Facebook Acquires Onavo
- Apple hires Burberry CEO as SVP of Retail
- Open Source Apps
- Overstating the Consumerization of IT
September 2013
- Obsoletive
- An Interview with Eric Jackson at Forbes
- What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong
- The $550 iPhone 5C Makes Perfect Sense
- HTC’s – and Windows Phone’s – Missing Market
- There Are Two Twitters; Only One is Worth Investing In
- Two Minutes, Fifty-six Seconds
- Twitter Acquires MoPub
- Thinking about iPhone Pricing
- Shameless Samsung
- Another Nokia Explanation; The Same Tragic Conclusion
- Podcast: Microsoft’s mobile dilemma
- The Deal That Makes No Sense
- If Apple is Disrupted, Will We Blame Tim Cook?
- Motivation and Marx
August 2013
- Podcast: Staying Hungry
- Not so Fast on that Apple TV SDK
- In Chrome Versus Android, Chrome Wins
- If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple
- C is for Changing My Mind
- C is for Choices
- The App Store Rainbow
- BlackBerry — and Nokia’s — Fundamental Failing
- Amazon’s Dominant Strategy
- Rebuilding the World Technology Destroyed
- The iPad is like the iPod, not the iPhone
July 2013
- Mobile Makes Facebook Just an App; That’s Great News
- Understanding Google
- The (alleged) 13-inch iPad and the triumph of thin clients
- Services, not Devices
- The Uncanny Valley of a Functional Organization
- Why Microsoft’s Reorganization Is a Bad Idea
- The Dropbox Opportunity
- Apple Celebrates 5 Years of App Store With Free App Promotion
- Friction
- Independence
- From my Inbox: GarageBand is a bad example
- From my Inbox: GarageBand and sustainable businesses
- Why Doesn’t Apple Enable Sustainable Businesses on the App Store?
June 2013
- Steve Jobs at Macworld Boston in 1997
- Additional Notes on Casual Games
- Casual Gaming is a Sustainable Business, but Not a Platform Differentiator
- Papering Over App Store Problems
- More content for Apple TV
- Strategy Credit
- When Apple Moves Fast
- Waze Winners and Losers
- Tim Cook is a Great CEO
- WWDC Predictions
- "Strategery"
- Samsung Electronics loses $12 billion market value on smartphone worries
- Additional Notes on TV
- My Apple TV Prediction
- The Jobs TV Does
- No Week In Review for May 26-June 1
May 2013
- Steve Jobs on television
- Why TV Has Resisted Disruption
- The Cord-Cutting Fantasy
- The Week in Review – May 19-25, 2013
- The Google We Always Wanted
- Hangouts requires a Google+ account
- Yahoo, Tumblr, and the Signal-to-ads Cycle
- Intel CEO shakes up units, creates ‘new devices’ group
- A better, brighter Flickr
- How to know when Apple finally gets iCloud right
- The Week In Review – May 12-18, 2013
- Asha to Asha
- Paul Otellini’s Intel
- The Tragic Beauty of Google+
- The Android Detour
- As of today, every major mobile competitor… also makes apps for iOS
- Facebook phones and the future of mobile communication
- The Facebook Flop
- The Week in Review – May 5-11, 2013
- Facebook in Talks to Buy Waze
- What LinkedIn is Good For
- Change for Change’s Sake
- Adobe’s Subscription Model & Why Platform Owners Should Care
- The Humpty Dumpty PC
- Jony Ive is not a Graphic Designer
- The Week in Review – April 28-May 4, 2013
- HTC Stalls
- The Intel Opportunity
- The Truth About Windows Versus the Mac
- Thorsten Heins Is Not an Idiot, But He May Be a Fool
April 2013
- If Not for Android, Where Would Google Be?
- Apple Rejects Google Now; EU to Investigate
- The Week in Review – April 21-27, 2013
- Two Bears
- Credit Agencies Deem Apple Less Safe than Subprime Mortgages
- China Mobile May Need the iPhone
- The S4 Design Stinks; Does It Matter?
- Apple had record sales and awesome growth. Here’s why its stock is being hammered anyway.
- Why Do Carriers Subsidize the iPhone?
- The Visual Case for a Low-Cost iPhone
- The Week in Review – April 14-20, 2013
- Observations on the App Annie Index
- Amazon Reportedly Acquires Siri-Like Evi App
- Apple the Black Swan
- A Common Thread
- Facebook Thinks You Might Like Up to Three Video Ads in Your News Feed Each Day
- The Facebook First at the AT&T Store
- The Week in Review – April 6-13, 2013
- Apple, Samsung, and the Parable of the Model-T
- The Samsung Mega
- Line Enters E-book Business With Line Manga
- Huawei, MediaTek, and the Lower Right
- Mobile’s Hierarchy of Needs
- Samsung’s Press Page
- The Death of HTC in Seven Bullet Points, Revisited
- Apps, People, and Jobs to Be Done
- The Week in Review — March 30-April 5, 2013
- Home Turf
- Facebook’s ‘Phone’ Is Another Triumph of Mediocrity
- China Losing the Global Propaganda War to Apple
- A Facebook of the Future
- Anand Lal Shimpi Loves the HTC One
- The Vanishing Uninformed, Charted
- Battery Life is the Only Spec the Matters
- Comparing Smartphone, Tablet and PC Graphics
- Is Blink Bad News for Apple?
- The Vanishing Uninformed and the Facebook Phone
- The Facebook Home Hands-On
- Blink
- Servo
- The iPad and the Disaggregation of Computing
- Strategy 101 and the Wall Street Journal: A Fisking
- The Real Reason Andy Rubin left Android
- Like Once, Friend Anywhere
- Two seemingly unrelated links, posted without commentary
- Benchmarking Apple, Android, and Windows Tablets
- China’s Telecoms to Charge for WeChat?
- The Building is the New Server
- Apple Apologizes in China
- Blackstone to Lead Dell LBO?
March 2013
- Price
- The Week in Review — March 25-29, 2013
- Facebook’s Mobile Failure: A Compare/Contrast With LINE
- How Samsung Became the World's No. 1 Smartphone Maker
- EA and the Future
- Samsung Galaxy S4 to cost $249.99 on AT&T
- T-Mobile’s New Value Chain
- Where in the World Are Windows Phones Outselling iPhones?
- What’s Actually Wrong with Yahoo’s Purchase of Summly
- Apple plans to scale up presence in India
- Value Chains
- First targeted attack to use Android malware discovered
- Did China Just Declare War On Apple?
- How Twitter changes Wall Street research
- The Marissa Mayer Turnaround
- Welcome to Stratechery
- FAA to allow reading devices during takeoff
- Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, Google-style
- Web second, mobile first
- Hey! You! Get off of Google’s cloud!
- The Death of HTC in Seven Bullet Points
- Dropbox Acquires Mailbox
- Yahoo! buying …
- From an Earlier Time