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Apple 2011 = Microsoft ’97

February 18, 2011

Brilliant comment from “Chucky” on a post from from Michael Tsai: Microsoft in 1997 had a very specific corporate strategy. They had a temporary situation of great market leverage. And rather than concentrating on making better products for their users, they began to concentrate on two objectives: 1 Using their leverage to avoid the rise [...]

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No, Apple isn’t patenting developers’ work. But it still has a bigger problem

August 6, 2010

Patents are hard to understand. If any government wants to reduce the costs of running a business quickly and easily, it should revamp the system of patents to make them easy for people who aren’t lawyers to read, and harder to actually get in the first place. So it’s no surprise that there’s been a [...]

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ARM’s experience shows why Steve Jobs is right on Flash

May 6, 2010

Image via CrunchBase Think that Steve Jobs is talking out of his behind when he says  that Apple needs full control over its platform? Perhaps ARM’s experience with Smartbooks will help you understand: ‘ARM dominates the mobile phone chip design market and has since 2008 been trying to get into the subnotebook market as well. [...]

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CrunchGear catches the TechCrunch bullshit bug

February 1, 2010

Apparently, Apple is now responsible for via killing hardware innovation throughout the industry, at least according to John Biggs. Remember when Apple bought up all the Flash memory? Well, Apple has also cornered the market in touchscreens. A few months ago I spoke to one inventor who had a horrible time trying to grab capitative [...]

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Dan Lyons on the lack of Jobs

June 25, 2009

Dan Lyons on why Apple needs Steve Jobs: “OK. Deep breath. Let’s admit that Jobs is a royal pain in the neck. Most of us probably wouldn’t want to work for him, or live next door to him, or have to negotiate deals with him. He’s spoiled, and arrogant, and he has a terrible temper. [...]

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Steve Jobs’ health: How much should Apple reveal?

January 15, 2009

There is, unsurprisingly, a lot of talk about Steve Jobs’ illness. It’s understandable: Jobs is a person who thousands of Mac fans around the world think of more as a friend than just the CEO of the company whose computers they like. This devotion and concern often manifests itself in a simple idea: Jobs’ health [...]

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An iPhone with a keyboard? And some musings on Steve Jobs

June 27, 2008

newswireless.net .:. News .:. “An iPhone with a keyboard? Never!” Well,…: “It is an article of Faith, of course, that whatever Steve Jobs does, is Right. And so, since the iPhone currently has no keyboard on it, it must logically follow that it is wrong to have a keyboard, and therefore that Steve Jobs will [...]

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The motivations of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

June 16, 2008

Link: John Naughton: Steve Jobs’s presentation | Technology | The Observer. "If Apple’s strategy succeeds, an increasing proportion of internet users will access through a gateway entirely controlled by a single company. For delighted iPhone users, this may seem like a great idea – just as it seemed like a great idea when Microsoft brought [...]

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