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Why Microsoft WILL Buy Nokia
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Why Microsoft WILL Buy Nokia

In a recent post on Why Google had to buy Motorola, I pointed out that both Ben and I had predicted that this would happen because we were convinced that in order for a company to really be successful in tablets and smartphones they had to own the ecosystem of hardware, software and services. Today’s [...]

Published by on August 15, 2011 11:33 am
6 Ways Apple Has Influenced the Last 30 years of the PC Industry
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6 Ways Apple Has Influenced the Last 30 years of the PC Industry

On Aug 12th, the industry celebrated the birthday of the IBM PC and its impact on our world of information. But we would be remiss if we did not also point out some of the key technologies Apple brought to the PC industry and how some of their pioneering technology and decisions actually pushed the [...]

Published by on August 15, 2011 3:14 am
How Amazon Could Own the Android Tablet Market
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How Amazon Could Own the Android Tablet Market

One of the first marketing classes I had in college discussed the concept of razors and razor blades. Sell the razors cheap and then sell men blades over and over. The profit would be in the blades, not the razors. In our tech world, we have our own version of this. It is called printers [...]

Published by on July 29, 2011 3:42 am
What is the future of the PC Industry?
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What is the future of the PC Industry?

As I perused the recent PC shipment numbers from last quarter and saw that they were rather anemic and with relatively slow growth forecast in the future, it became even more evident to me that we are at a major inflection point in our journey with personal computers. We started this journey in the 1950’s [...]

Published by on July 22, 2011 3:30 am
Why Tablets Won’t Cannibalize Laptop Sales – Yet at Least
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Why Tablets Won’t Cannibalize Laptop Sales – Yet at Least

If any of you have gone out to buy a laptop computer lately, you may have asked yourself “do I need a laptop or could I get by with a tablet?” We know from our research that this question is top of mind with a lot of consumers these days as tablets have really clouded [...]

Published by on July 7, 2011 7:53 am
HP’s TouchPad-Can it compete with Apple’s iPad and Android Tablets?
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HP’s TouchPad-Can it compete with Apple’s iPad and Android Tablets?

Over the last few weeks I have spent a lot of time testing out two new tablets that are now on the market. The first is the Samsung 10.1” Galaxy Tab and the second is the new Palm TouchPad. Up until these two tablets came out it was clear to me that Apple pretty much [...]

Published by on June 29, 2011 11:27 pm
Why Apple’s Loss of Retail Chief to JC Penney is Apple’s Gain
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Why Apple’s Loss of Retail Chief to JC Penney is Apple’s Gain

I have written in various columns over the last few months, that once Apple moved the center of our digital life from the Mac and to the cloud, they could be freed up to offer many more devices that are Apple branded and gain greater features from their cloud offering. This idea became crystal clear [...]

Published by on June 20, 2011 3:47 pm