Archive for February, 2006
Saturday, February 18th, 2006
Scott Stevenson blogs about Dvorak's recent headline. He then follows up with a good reason why Apple won't be following Microsoft's model.
Revenue is not important. Profit is important.
Technically, Microsoft's model of selling the software and not hardware is a better indicator for success. The costs of CD and packaging ...
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Thursday, February 16th, 2006
Over at "Creating Passionate Users" is a blog post which essentially says that until a user is aware of your product, it is a "Schrödinger's Product".
I'm not going to go into the detail because you can read it for yourself.
Essentially - until a user encounters the product, you don't ...
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
I blogged about this recently but I do think the "next big thing" is not web sites that enable the building of social networks (Sorry Mr Andresson, sorry 30 boxes) but rather "rich" interfaces to social data.
I remember speaking to the Jebus about this and Orkut. The thing that sucks ...
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
My employer has given me the option to purchase a laptop of my choice as a 'salary sacrifice'. This means that I'd be paying for the laptop before tax, and therfore saving about 40% of the cost. What's that translate to? Well, a $3200 Mac Book Pro ...
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