Enterprise
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Big Blue and Apple’s Soul
I hope you’ll forgive my writing about week-old news,1 but I find it striking to compare the paucity of words written about Apple’s partnership with IBM, at least relative to what was written when Apple acquired Beats. After all, the IBM partnership is a much bigger deal. It certainly seems that Tim Cook feels the […]
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Daily Update: Microsoft’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
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Daily Update: Google I/O – Analysis on Every Announcement
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Daily Update: Amazon’s PR Runup, Box Acquires Streem, Priceline Acquires OpenTable
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Growing Apple at WWDC
In the end, as with many of Apple strategies, much of what transpired in Monday’s WWDC keynote was telegraphed many months ago, at least from a strategic perspective. Consider the thinking behind iOS 7. As Jony Ive told USA Today: When we sat down last November (to work on iOS 7), we understood that people […]
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Daily Update: Lenovo Earnings, Windows 8 Banned, Google Buys Divide
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Microsoft Cloud Announcement, Cordova and Windows RT, Xbox Silliness
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The Heart of Dropbox
Last Thursday, after waking up to the news of Dropbox’s most recent announcements,1 I couldn’t have been less impressed. To quote myself from a chat I had with a friend: “Dropbox is an unfocused mess.” But then I actually watched the event. I’ve long been a believer in cloud storage; back in college I experimented […]