The User Experience
In consumer technology — and increasingly enterprise — the best user experience wins, and it is the best hedge against disruption.
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Apple has long defeated disruption by focusing on the user experience; Jeff Bezos and Amazon, though, show that user expectations for their experience are ever-changing.
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The key to avoiding disruption is by providing a superior user experience; that, though, requires focus and execution.
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Bad Assumptions
John Gruber is, as only he can, relishing the claim chowder – his collected bits of analyst wisdom sure, again and again, that Apple is doomed. Apple, of course, is not doomed. In fact, the company is the very opposite of doomed, having just posted the best quarter of any company, ever.1 The analysts Gruber […]
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The End of Trickle-Down Technology
Reaching developing markets depends on understanding that consumers with a small budget are very different from consumers who aren’t interested in spending much
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Daily Update: Looking Forward to CES, Looking Ahead to 2015, Apple and the Functional High Ground
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Christmas Gifts and the Meaning of Design
Manage your Stratechery subscription. This is a re-post from December, 2013 Gifts are a funny thing. A year ago, for Christmas 2012, my wife “gave” me an iPad mini. I use quotes because I actually bought it; supply was constrained, and when we got a notification that there were models in stock, I quickly dashed […]
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Daily Update: Christmas Gifts for Google, Facebook, and Twitter
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Daily Update: Christmas Gifts for Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi
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Best
The key to avoiding disruption is by providing a superior user experience; that, though, requires focus and execution.