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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Server issues
If you came here earlier, you might have got server errors – these now appear to have been fixed, by turning off comments using Disqus and reverting back to WordPress’ built-in commenting. I’ll fix this later. And thanks to all … Continue reading
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Ballmer predicts Windows PC 2010 = Macintosh 2008
More from the analyst’s meeting with Steve Ballmer: “Ballmer told analysts there would be a new class of “ultra-thin” PCs” — or high-end netbooks –coming this year that would combine the light weight of netbooks with high-power and high-performance of … Continue reading
Watch out, Mac-using analysts: Ballmer knows where you live
Via Joe Wilcox, comes this bit of Steve Ballmer’s speech to financial analysts: “We have low share, by the way, in the investor audience. I can see the Apple logos versus the PC logos. So we have more work to … Continue reading
Daring Fireball is wrong about Microsoft’s weakness
I am, you’ll have noted, an argumentative sod. This is a great source of irritation to my dear other half, who rolls her eyes as I shout at the television or Internet. But sometimes, you read something and… well… you … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Google, John Gruber, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Window 7, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows XP
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Why are companies so afraid of “think(ing) different”?
You’d think that companies would want to make their products different from their competitors, wouldn’t you? ?After all, if there’s a difference, people might actually buy your product rather than someone else’s? Not always the case, as Matthew Taylor notes: … Continue reading
links for 2009-07-30
Jason Calacanis on Yahoo/Microsoft "The lesson for all startups–and BDC's (big dumb companies)–is thatinnovation is all you have. Once you stop innovating you lose yourtalent and you lose the race. Never. Stop. Innovating. Never. Neve …
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Jason Calacanis on Yahoo/Microsoft
“The lesson for all startups–and BDC’s (big dumb companies)–is that innovation is all you have. Once you stop innovating you lose your talent and you lose the race. Never. Stop. Innovating. Never. Never.Never.” Posted via email from Ian Betteridge’s lifestream
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Why Freemium fails: The Idiots Guide
Here’s your business model:1. Attract people who don’t want to pay for movies by giving away free movies.2. Try and charge people for something they specifically come to your site to get for free3. Wonder what went wrong. via news.cnet.com … Continue reading
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Fake Steve Jobs on the Apple tablet
“Dear netbook makers, whoever you are — I don’t know your names because we don’t pay any attention to you, but we know you’re out there, polluting the world with your cheap, ugly, underpowered machines — but here is my … Continue reading
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The real story of the 4chan AT&T block
“Sounds like you don’t understand what’s going on – please educate yourself. 4chan is being SYN flooded, various ISPs were getting a lot of collateral traffic from the resulting ACKs going back to spoofed IPs. Since those ISPs had nothing … Continue reading
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