From the monthly archives:

November 2010

Phil Gyford on why Murdoch’s iPad newspaper might not fail

November 25, 2010

Why the iPad newspaper might not be doomed: “Next, Tate says that News Corp. “sucks at the internet”. One thing I hear a lot is “the internet is different, you must get it to succeed, you old media folk don’t get it, ha ha, you’re doomed!”. Which is enormously comforting when you’re pointing and laughing [...]

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In praise of Kindle

November 13, 2010

Getting the out-of-box experience right with consumer electronics is hard, which is why so many companies get it wrong. With the Kindle, Amazon has produced a customer experience that Apple would be proud of. In fact, it’s arguable that the integrated experience of Kindle is actually better than anything Apple has done. Open the box, [...]

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Google is the carriers’ best-friend

November 1, 2010

Doc Searles has got a new iPhone, and muses on a few points: “I still see this as a phase, and not a bad one. Apple and Google have together cracked open the unholy death grip that phone makers and carriers have long had on the mobile world. At some point those two halves will [...]

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