Good morning, I mistakenly made yesterday’s Daily Update available to everyone; I promise you that was not intentional, and apologize for lowering the value of your subscription for even a day. I also wrote about the ongoing dispute between Amazon and the publishers in a piece called Publishers’ Deal with the Devil. Amazon also releasedSubscribe […]
Daily Update: Windows 8.1 with Bing, Hacking and Corporate Responsibility, Asian Chat App Updates
Good morning, Happy Memorial Day to my US readers, and Happy Monday to the rest of the world. When it comes to holidays, I plan on observing the Taiwanese holidays for most of the year, but American holidays during the summer (i.e. July 4). I’ll always let you know before I take a day offSubscribe […]
Daily Update: Facebook Changes Privacy Policy, Microsoft Channel Partners to Sell Azure, The Problem with IBM
Good morning, Access members, please keep an eye out for an email about a virtual meetup next week, as well as an in-person meetup during WWDC. On Stratechery, I posted It’s Time to Kill Surface. I probably wasn’t clear enough in the article, but I actually rather like the product and think there is aSubscribe […]
It’s Time to Kill Surface
“The question that needs to be asked and answered is why hardware.” To Satya Nadella’s credit, he provided not just the answer, but the question as well. And, looked at narrowly, there were good things seen – and not seen – at Microsoft’s Surface event. Having clearly failed as a mass market device, it makes […]
Daily Update: Lenovo Earnings, Windows 8 Banned, Google Buys Divide
Good morning, Only 49% of you opened yesterday’s email (it’s usually 80%+); I heard from several folks on Twitter that it got sent to spam, likely because of GroupOn, so please take a look and mark it as “not-spam” if that is the case. I’ll be writing about the Microsoft Surface announcements on Stratechery laterSubscribe […]
Microsoft Cloud Announcement, Cordova and Windows RT, Xbox Silliness
Good morning, I went deep on Apple’s (alleged) acquisition of Beats, yet in some ways, I’m not sure I went deep enough. One thing I was trying to capture is that there is a very benign explanation for this acquisition: Beats solves a lot of problems for Apple. And maybe that’s all it is. Still,Subscribe […]
Level3 and Internet Congestion, Dropbox Data Leak, Microsoft Surface
Good morning, Here are today’s updates: Level3 and Internet Congestion Level3, one of the largest Tier 1 network providers in the country, wrote a blog post called Observations of an Internet Middleman: The average utilization across all those interconnected ports is 36 percent. So you might be asking – what is all the fuss aboutSubscribe […]
Daily Update: Microsoft, Qualcomm and Amazon Earnings
Good morning, I am aware of two issues with the daily update: Some email addresses were not automatically imported to MailChimp. I am investigating why and will add you manually if need be. Please email me if you have not been receiving emails Feedly does not respect the private RSS feed addresses and instead redirectsSubscribe […]
Daily Email (2014-04-22): Microsoft, Cloud Services, and Amazon
Good morning, I’m making good progress on finding a solution to making this content readable in RSS readers and web browsers for those of you who hate email. In the meantime, if you click the “Open in Browser” link at the top, you can not only read this content in a browser, but also subscribeSubscribe […]
Black Box Strategy
With the announcement of the Amazon Fire TV and the leak of the alleged Android TV, all of the major players have (or soon will have) a TV offering. There’s been a lot of talk about how similar the products are, but those similarities are for good reason; what is more interesting to me are […]