An All-Digital World Speeds Commerce

An all-digital world accelerates commerce. As “things” become digital or as physical non-digital things gain a virtual and digital identity the speed at which they can move approaches the speed at which digital things can move. This all results in the speed of commerce for both digital and non-digital things accelerating. In a digital world […]

The Iterative Nature of Technology – Stopping what you Started

With a rapid rate of technological change, comes another technological development. In the digital world that we now live in, it has become common we often create technology to stop other technology from working which in turn spawns additional innovation designed at stopping that technology from working. Wide deployment of home telephony spawned the creation […]

Weekly Retail Visits: CityTarget

While in Seattle last week, I was able to visit the CityTarget between Union Street and Pike Street. Target announced their CityTarget initiative in the summer of 2012 and the first stores opened on July 25, 2012 in Seattle, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Stores in Portland, New York, and San Francisco would follow later that […]

Historical View of iPhone Pricing

The new iPhones went on sale today.  Since the announcement, much as been written about the two models – and especially the implications for Apple.  I previously reviewed some of the insights gleaned from Apple’s financial statements and wanted to enumerate on that discussion.  As the following charts illustrate, Apple’s reported price for the iPhone […]