Good morning, This update is arriving early because I am headed for the airport with my family for several weeks with my parents in Wisconsin. The fact I can do this is because of all your support, so thank you. Second, I feel pretty optimistic about keeping these updates on their early-morning schedule, but thereSubscribe […]
Daily Update: The Aereo Case, Searching Phones Requires a Warrant, GoPro’s Successful IPO
Good morning, Yesterday I posted my promised piece about Android Wear specifically and contextual computing broadly (I’m a bit skeptical of both). Check it out here: Economic Power in the Age of Abundance. On to today’s update: The Aereo Case The Supreme Court decided against Aereo, a startup that offered a service which transmitted over-the-airSubscribe […]
Daily Update: The FAA and Drones, Google to Preannounce New Android, Oculus Seeking Partners
Good morning, I wrote a piece yesterday about the latest attempt by European publishers to extract concessions out of Google for including their content in its listings. I’ve always found the idea kind of silly on the face of it, but actually thinking about why it is silly results in some interesting takeaways about whereSubscribe […]
Economic Power in the Age of Abundance
Publishers are trying to threaten Google again, apparently unaware that because of the Internet they have no power: that flows to the platforms that control discovery.
Daily Update: Privacy is Dead Follow-up, Facebook Launches Google+, Praising Adobe (and a bit on disruption)
Good morning, There has certainly been a lot of chatter about disruption over the last 24 hours; I know many of you have asked for my opinion about Jill Lepore’s article in the New Yorker. I suspect James Allworth and I will touch on this on Exponent, but for now, I would say that theSubscribe […]
Privacy is Dead
The nature of the Internet and the business-models of social networks means that privacy as commonly understood is dead; tech companies need to learn to self-regulate or governments will do it for them.
Daily Update: Bitcoin Breached, China Cracks Down on iMessage, Tesla Opens Patents
Good morning, A big update today, so let’s get to it: Bitcoin Breached You may think that header is a bit sensational, but in my opinion it’s difficult to overstate the implications of recent Bitcoin developments. From ArsTechnica: For the first time in Bitcoin’s five-year history, a single entity has repeatedly provided more than halfSubscribe […]
Daily Update: The Computex Contrast, Big Screens Dominate, Xiaomi’s Worldwide Ambitions
Good morning, I had a great trip to San Francisco, but it’s very nice to be back on my normal time schedule. Thanks for your patience last week. On to the update: The Computex Contrast As I noted last week, Computex was the same week as WWDC. Paul Thurrott had a brief piece on someSubscribe […]
Daily Update: Google Blocked in China, WeChat Ecommerce, LINE IPO?
Good afternoon, I finally posted the WWDC piece I mentioned yesterday: Growing Apple at WWDC. While the number of updates were pretty incredible, I think they mostly fit into a coherent growth strategy. Check it out. I apologize again that today’s update is a little later (tomorrow’s probably will be as well). I’m very muchSubscribe […]
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 […]