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Differentiation can equal huge profits, if you it can be maintained.
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The iPhone X is a quintessential Apple product, because it is the best; is there a market for iPhone 8?
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Google went wrong in the past by abandoning their horizontal business model; are they repeating their mistake, or does the future give them no choice?
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The iPhone 6 is going in the opposite direction that Apple’s critics think it should: more expensive, not less. It will work because Apple owns the high-end.
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The Reddit Rebellion, How Should Reddit Make Money?, The Disappearance of High-End Android
Reddit had a rough weekend, raising questions as to whether or not the site will ever be able to become a real business. It’s very nature may make that impossible, or maybe it simply needs a different business model. Plus, Samsung and HTC’s tough quarter.
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China Slowing, Apple Growing; Is Tesla Disruptive?
Today’s update examines how it is that China smartphone sales are decreasing even as Apple’s share is increasing. Then, I once again take on disruption theory and its adherent, this time around Tesla.
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Daily Update: Notes From the Apple "Spring Forward" Event
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Daily Update: Apple Watch Preview, On the Apple Edition Price, The Pebble Time
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Daily Update: The Samsung Galaxy S6, Samsung Pay, HTC: Industrial Design for Hire
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Apple’s New Market
If the importance of an integrated experience matter more with your phone than your PC, because you use it more, how much more important is an integrated experience that touches every detail of your life?
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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