A human review of the Kindle Fire
I guess we will not be seeing an Instapaper app in the Amazon App Store anytime soon… (via Marco.org)
View ArticleDaring Fireball: Getting Steve Jobs Wrong
Thoughtful analysis of a flawed, but fascinating, biography. (via Daring Fireball)
View ArticleFinancial Times Hits 1M Users On HTML5 Site That Dodges Apple’s Tax
The economics of closed app stores will probably force content producers away from native apps to web apps like FT has pioneered. This is somewhat ironic since web apps were exactly what Steve Jobs...
View ArticleWhat I Learned Building the Apple Store (Ron Johnson/HBR)
People come to the Apple Store for the experience — and they’re willing to pay a premium for that. There are lots of components to that experience, but maybe the most important — and this is something...
View ArticleSteve Jobs talks PC vs. TV
Not even Steve Jobs could get everything right. Or did he? (via Observatory)
View ArticleForecasting the Best Deals (via New York Times)
What the professor has determined with a complex computer algorithm for consumer electronics, others have found through less scientifically rigorous means for other products, including clothing and...
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My Top 5 Roku Private Channels
Like a lot of people, yesterday I received a Roku 2 XD as a gift. This is my second Roku after picking up the first generation SD device last year on eBay. Roku is like Apple TV on steroids with over...
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How Apple Can Disrupt The Tablet Market
I have long espoused that there is no tablet market, just an iPad market. But with the introduction of the Kindle Fire and to a lesser degree Nook Tablet there is a competitive threat to be dealt with....
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Why My Next Laptop Might Be An iPad
Apple did something interesting today with the announcement of their new iPad that shows they have no problems cannibalizing their own laptop business. Instead of taking on lower priced tablets, as I...
View ArticleApps Are iPad’s Sustainable Advantage
Until Android or Windows tablets match the range and quality of iPad’s app ecosystem they will continue to be a very small niche. Right now I don’t think this is possible unless Apple stumbles for a...
View ArticleSlides from my WordPress security talk
This evening I spoke about securing WordPress at the MSP WordPress meeting. Below are my slides which should be pretty clear for most to follow. WordPress Security
View ArticleWhat if Best Buy only carried the best products?
An article from last week I only got around to reading today but has an interesting idea: what if Best Buy curated their inventory to only carry the best values in each product area instead of dozens...
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Google Drive Showing Wrong Space Used? Empty Your Trash
Google Drive is a great service but after using it for a couple months I found it not as reliable as Dropbox. So I moved most of my data back freeing up over 35 GB of space on my Google Drive. But the...
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iPad Mini Will Also Replace Your Mouse
It seems inevitable that Apple will announce a smaller iPad next month. From leaked photos, parts and careful math the product will sit between the full sized iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch. The consumer...
View ArticleTransformation’s never easy
Ron Johnson on Apple’s transformation: I remember the day we opened our Soho store. How many have you been to the Soho store, lower Manhattan. That opened on July 17th, 2002. It was a day after...
View ArticleMy WordUp Minneapolis 2012 Slides…
I had the opportunity to speak at WordUp Minneapolis today so wanted to post my slides for whoever might be interested. I have also created a hidden WordPress Resources page with all the links...
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My Top 10 Third Party Android Apps of 2012
This year marks my third with Android so I thought I might start a new year’s tradition of listing my top 10 third party Android apps from the previous year. Most of these were available earlier than...
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