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Tablets Don’t Need to be $99 to Sell
A little over a week ago, HP decided to exit the WebOS tablet market and began to liquidate the HP Touchpad at the firesale price of $99. It should come as no surprise, these disappeared quickly. As I recently wrote, increasingly the future of tablets (and like devices) will be Web apps so good browser-enabled […]
Why the Future of Tablets Isn’t in Apps
Pudits like to point to apps (and importantly the availability of apps) as the deciding factor in the success (and failure) of tablets and other app-oriented devices. Most developers have the bandwidth to support at most two (and sometimes three) development platforms. The largest app developers – the Pandoras and Kindles of the world – will allocate resources for […]
Why Can’t I see Hotel Inventory?
Last month – while in NYC for the CleanSlate executive forum – I stayed at the Westin New York. I arrived in NYC at 1AM and knowing in advance that I’d be arriving late called the Westin to check-in earlier that day. I’ve been “walked” enough times to know that when I’m going to be arriving late at the hotel I should call in advance. Like […]
Continue Betting on Facebook
I was a (relatively) early adopter to FourSquare. Today FourSquare has over 10M users and I was one of the first two percent (#197,372). I’ve also written about FourSquare here. FourSquare does several things well. The discounts and offerings associated with checking-in have always worked for me and with recent updates they’ve improved the experience. […]
What to Expect from the Moto Acquisition
The big news in tech today was of course Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility. Google dipped into it’s roughly $39 billion in cash and agreed to pay $12.5 billion (or $40/share) – a 60+ percent premium over Friday’s close. You can read some of the coverage here: Google’s blog post on the acquisition, TechCrunch, TechCocktail, […]
A New Dance Partner for CES
Love this release. MEMS are hot and this is too.
Further Fragmentation of Video Distribution Services and What it Might Look Like
We’ve already seen some fragmentation of video distribution services and it begets the question if this is just the beginning. Further fragmentation will have some common characteristics. First, I believe this further fragmentation will happen around lower dollar value digital assets. These types of digital assets have the likeliest chance of propagating further fragmentation because their appeal will be […]
BBY, Connected TVs, and the Innovator’s Dilemma in Action
BestBuy recently announced they would launch a connected TV under the Insignia brand using the Tivo user interface. This is a great example of the Innovator’s Dilemma in action. The Insignia brand is one of Best Buy’s house brands. It (like other private label brands) is frequently used as the opening price point for devices. House brands tend to […]
Are Multi-function Devices Killing Single Purpose Devices?
IHS iSuppli recently projected sluggish growth for single-purpose consumer tech devices like MP3 players, PNDs, and digital cameras. At the same time they expect multi-function devices like smartphones and tablets to enjoy strong double-digit growth over the same horizon The IHS iSuppli statement quotes, Jordan Selburn as saying, The success of multipurpose electronic equipment, often coming […]
