Companies

Microsoft

  • More on Chrome and AMP, The Case Against Google, Decentralization and Paradigm Shifts

    More on Chrome and AMP, and what The Case Against Google gets wrong about Microsoft. Then, why decentralized networks are aggregator kryptonite.


  • Apple’s Middle Age

    For Apple, hitting middle age means a strategy primarily focused on monetizing its existing customers. It makes sense, but one wonders what happens next.


  • Amazon Go and the Future

    Amazon Go exemplifies how Amazon is building its monopoly in three ways: horizontally, vertically, and financially. Plus, why automation is worth being optimistic about.


  • iPhone X Review Drama, Microsoft Earnings, Microsoft’s Hybrid Strategy

    The question of who reviewed the iPhone X shows how power is changing in media. Then, Microsoft crushes earnings with a strategy the company has used before.


  • The Kinect and Face ID, Face ID Production Problems, The iPhone X Timeline

    The Kinect is to Face ID as Windows Mobile was to the iPhone: new technologies often need new paradigms. Then, when it come to reported Face ID production delays there is a lot of smoke for there not to be fire.


  • Trustworthy Networking

    The problems Facebook are facing today are the result of running into the future without considering unintended consequences, much like Microsoft and the Internet. There are clear solutions for the ad problem, but the filter bubble issue is much more fraught.


  • Alexa and Cortana, Apple Moves Siri, Tim Cook’s Blindspot

    Alexa and Cortana’s partnership makes sense when you consider the company’s business models, goals, and partnership impetus (and it shows why Apple and Google won’t come along). Then, why Siri’s reorganization won’t help much.


  • Microsoft/IBM Follow-Up, Facebook Earnings, Instagram Stories > Snapchat Stories

    Follow-up on Microsoft and IBM, including why Steve Ballmer deserves more credit than I gave him. Then, Facebook’s earnings and the reluctance to admit to pricing power, and why Instagram Stories are more innovative than Snapchat Stories


  • Microsoft’s Monopoly Hangover

    There are striking similarities between Microsoft today and IBM in the Lou Gerstner era, but today’s IBM should be a warning to Redmond.


  • Google Earnings, Google Cloud Growth?, Microsoft’s Milestone

    Google had great earnings again, although the usual questions — and a new one, about Google Cloud — remain unanswered. Then, Microsoft returned to annual revenue growth, an impressive milestone in the company’s turnaround.