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4 Mobile Business Models, 4 Ways To Keep Score
The hundred meter dash, archery, weightlifting and the long jump are four very different Olympic sports with four very different methods of keeping score. The hundred meter dash is scored on speed. Archery is scored on accuracy. Weightlifting is scored …
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 …
The Case for 7-inch Tablets
Last week the rumor mills and tech blogs were bustling last week about the possibility of a 7-inch iPad, potentially called the iPad Mini. Rather than focus this entire column on why it makes sense for Apple to make a …
Android’s 7-Inch Tablet Future
It wasn’t a secret that Google was going to announce a 7-inch Nexus tablet made by Asus and running Nvidia’s Tegra 3 chipset. And announce it Google did yesterday to much applause and fan fare. …
Is there a future for dedicated eReaders?
When Amazon introduced their first Kindle eReader, there were a lot of articles that suggested that this device represented the future of books. Many wrote that thanks to the Kindle, eBooks would go mainstream and be the most popular way …
Why Amazon Will Create Brick and Mortar Retail Stores
Over the years, in my various discussions with Steve Jobs about Apple and their products, there was one theme that always came out when we discussed any of his product designs; they had to be easy to use. In …
Amazon & the End of the Book
With the end of the Nook for Barnes & Noble and doom and gloom on expected losses and lowered guidance for fiscal 2012, the company’s stock fell 18 percent. The Nook was the poster child of Barnes & Noble’s in-store growth strategy.
Why Amazon is Not the New Apple
Over the last few months I have heard and read many comments about the idea that Amazon is the new Apple. In fact, in a very good piece in Forbes, E.D. Cain asks if Amazon is the new Apple …
Gaming AMD’s 2012 Strategy
AMD intends to pursue “growth opportunities” in low-powered devices, emerging markets and Internet-based businesses.
There’s an awful lot of mis-guided analysis wafting about regarding AMD’s new strategic direction, which the company says it will make public in February. This piece is …
My Experience with the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet
I’d like to start this topic off by making a point. The way most reviewers review technology products is helpful for those to whom technology is well understood and non-threatening. However, I would argue, that …
The Tech.pinions Amazon Kindle Fire Review Roundup
Well the reviews are out and it seems like they are mostly positive. Other than a few user interface gripes it appears most reviewers believe the Kindle Fire to be a worthy Android tablet competitor but not much …
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