Ben Thompson
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Daily Update: American Girl, Minecraft, and the Next Generation of Builders; The Panasonic Cameraphone; China’s Antitrust Crusade
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Microsoft’s Good (and Potentially Great) Minecraft Acquisition
It’s difficult to overstate what a big deal Minecraft is. It’s the third best-selling game of all time behind Tetris and Wii Sports, and unlike the latter especially, it is a remarkably sticky experience: the vast majority of customers (over 90 percent on PC, according to Microsoft) sign in every single month. Were Microsoft to […]
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Daily Update: Google Launches Android One in India, Good News on Patents, Apple’s Payment Strategy
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How Tim Cook Might Have Introduced Apple Watch, and Exponent Episode 017: Let’s End it There
In 2010, John Gruber wrote an article for Macworld called This is How Apple Rolls: They take something small, simple, and painstakingly well considered. They ruthlessly cut features to derive the absolute minimum core product they can start with. They polish those features to a shiny intensity. At an anticipated media event, Apple reveals this […]
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Daily Update: iPhone Delayed in China, Apple Watch Edition, Xiaomi Could Have Done Worse
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Daily Update: How Tim Cook Should Have Introduced Watch, Apple Pay and the Apple Watch, Microsoft to Buy Minecraft?
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Apple Watch: Asking Why and Saying No
Dan Frommer wrote in Quartz about The Hidden Structure of the Apple Keynote. His analysis covered 27 events since 2007, and included things like average length, laughs per executive, and the timing of iPhone reveals. It’s a good read, but in light of the Watch introduction, I am more interested in comparing yesterday’s keynote to […]
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Daily Update: The New iPhones, Apple Pay, Good-bye iPod Classic
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Daily Update: Alibaba Opens Roadshow, Twitter Testing Purchases, Microsoft Rebrands Bing Apps to MSN
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Daily Update: Banks Are the New Carriers, Marc Newson Joins Apple, Wearable Price Prediction