Understanding Users
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PayPal’s Incentive Problem
By winning on the web, PayPal was actually disadvantaged when it came to competing in mobile, because its incentives were already shaped by a different problem.
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Daily Update: Why Next Year for Apple Watch, I Love the Blackberry Passport, Bill Simmons and Writer as Brand
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Daily Update: Amazon’s New Devices, Sony Gets Crushed, Apple Takes Aim on Google
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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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Happy Independence Day Mr. Glass
Blessed with the sort of love him or hate him reputation reserved for the truly popular, Bill Simmons has received a lot of criticism from NBA fans for his propensity to act as the Body Language Doctor: he will make grand pronouncements about players or teams based on nothing more than a player or coach’s […]
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How Apple TV Might Disrupt Microsoft and Sony
Beyond the fact most of us had nothing better to do in the 1980s, a big reason to own a gaming console was that they were a phenomenally good deal. In 1985 Nintendo introduced the Famicom to North America as the Nintendo Entertainment System for a mere $199, a remarkably low price considering the average […]
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Apple and Beats, Box adds GE, Comcast Entering Online Ads
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Don’t Give Up on the iPad
When people think about the first iconic Apple product, it’s probably the Macintosh that leaps to mind. But Apple Computer was actually built on the back of the Apple II. In fact, for quite a long while it was the Apple II that provided the profits that made the Macintosh possible, as Guy Kawasaki recounts: […]