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Why Internet Sales Taxes Are Inevitable
Later today, the U.S. Senate will consider, and probably pass, a bill that allows states to collect sales taxes on online purchases shipped from other states. Though its fate in the rabidly anti-tax House is uncertain, sooner or later this …
Google and Amazon: Doing It All Wrong
By the conventional standards of business, it would be hard to find two companies with a greater tendency to do things wrong than Google and Amazon. Yet both are regarded as outstanding success story. What is going on here, and …
Comparing The Profits of The Five Titans Of Tech
Introduction
Today’s five Titans of personal computing are Google, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung and Amazon. Horace Dediu of ASYMCO has created a side-by-side comparison of their respective revenues and profits.
Google is a money making machine, but I think that many overestimate its …
More Amazing Amazonian Mathematics
Amazon announced today that “[a]pp downloads in the Appstore have grown more than 500 percent over the previous year.” ~ via Gigaom
Of course, we don’t know 500% of what, but what the hey, 500 is a big number, right? We …
Dear Amazon: You don’t get to use words like “double”
On Tuesday, Amazon issued a press release entitled: “Worldwide Kindle Device Sales More Than Double Last Year’s Record Over Holiday Shopping Weekend.”
Here’s the thing, Amazon. You never told us last year’s sales numbers. In fact, you never told us ANY …
It’s Going To Be A Very Apple-y Holiday Quarter
Tightwads, Value Buyers and Spendthrifts
Oscar Wilde once said that cynics know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Similarly, tech pundits are often obsessed with price to the detriment of value. Despite all evidence to the contrary, pundits …
Selling The Amazon Kindle Fire and Google Nexus 7 Is As Silly As Selling Razor Blades To Men Who Love Beards
Gillette, Amazon, Google and Apple
– The Gillette business model is to give away the razor in anticipation of making profits from the sale of the blades.
– The Amazon business model is to give away the Kindle Fire for cost in …
7 Inch Tablets Employ An Odd Definition of “Success”
TROY WOLVERTON at the San Jose Mercury News, talks 7 inch tablets:
Just two years ago, Apple’s late co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs mocked small-screened tablets as “tweeners” that were too little to compete with the larger iPad but too big …
Why Amazon is Not Interested in TI’s Mobile Processor Group
Some reports have came out that Amazon is interested in TI’s mobile processor division. I find this extremely difficult to believe. I personally, think TI’s move to shift focus from mobile APs (application processors) and more into …
Battle Of The Tablet Business Models: Lessons Learned And A Look Ahead
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We’ve been looking at the tablet business models of Apple, Amazon, Google, Samsung and Microsoft. Today we wrap up the series by seeing what lessons we have learned and by asking ourselves what the various business models can tell us …
Battle Of The Tablet Business Models: Amazon Kindle Fire
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We’re looking at the tablet business models of Apple, Amazon, Google, Samsung and Microsoft. Today we focus on the Amazon Kindle Fire.
2.0 Amazon Kindle Fire
2.1 WHERE DOES THE AMAZON KINDLE MAKE ITS MONEY?
When introducing the new Amazon tablets, Jeff Bezos …
What I Like About Amazon’s Kindle Strategy
For the 12 years that I have been studying the technology industry, within my role as an industry and market analyst, I have tried to understand the strategic elements of this industry that often go overlooked. This is …
Kindle Fire Free Time and the Future of Family Computing
Tablets are one of the more uniquely positioned personal computer products I have ever seen. Largely because they have aspects of personal computing traits the same way a notebook does. However, they also have a more shared screen …
Amazon Is Poised to Become A Powerhouse in Tablets
During the last year, Amazon ventured into the world of tablets with the Kindle Fire. It clearly represented their first salvo in this market and according to their extrapolation of current tablet data, this aggressively priced tablet now has 22% …
Making the Cloud Safe for Consumers: Time for Apple To Step Up [Updated]
This has been the Year of the Cloud. Apple, Microsoft, and Google, the three companies that matter most to consumers, have all been rushing headlong to establish personal clouds that will link consumers’ data across multiple devices, making it available …
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