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→ A VC: Cheap Will Be Smart. Expensive Will Be Dumb.
Fred Wilson makes a great point regarding connected devices. Fred separates them into two broad categories, arguing that : Cheap devices such as phones are and will remain the smart ones. They are replaced very often, enabling the consumer to … Continue reading
→ The Frontiers of Platform Adoption
An update on Asymco’s Horace Dediu’s brilliant “Race to a Billion” chart. I would love to see this for other web platforms such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter… and now Google Plus (which reached 10 million users in just a few weeks). … Continue reading
→ Ten apps is all I need
David on 37Signals makes a good point about the number of apps being less important than the quality of the top 10 apps. He hits the sad truth about Nokia: But the established wisdom now is that you cannot win without hundreds … Continue reading
★ Escaping Interface Prison: Windows 8 and OS convergence
This week at the D9 conference Microsoft unveiled Windows 8, which will be fully optimized for touch: As I explained in a lengthy post back in February last year, I believe technology companies often remain prisoners of their interfaces. This move by Microsoft … Continue reading
★ 2011: The year of Google?
Must-read post from Joe Wilcox on Betanews, about why Google doomsayers are not seeing the full picture of the company’s strategic momentum. In a nutshell, Wilcox argues that Google still has huge assets up its sleeve thanks to an accumulation of … Continue reading