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Why are companies so afraid of “think(ing) different”?

July 30, 2009

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: “Then a few days later a friend was comparing prices from Virgin and BT to have [...]

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Why Microsoft lose and Apple wins, part two

May 30, 2008

There are some very interesting facts about the reaction of Microsoft to Spotlight after its first demo revealed in the comments to a post on Joe Wilcox’s AppleWatch blog. "MSFT has worked on WinFS for more than a decade without success in making it fast, reliable, and easy-to-use enough for release. The Longhorn "reset" in [...]

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