Category: Business Model
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iPhone Purchase Plan Decision Maker – Now With All the Carriers
Over the weekend I took a look at how much the various iPhone purchase plans compare. That was mostly an exercise is trying to decide what I should do next as an…
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How to Buy an iPhone – Some math behind purchase plans
Signing up for a mobile carrier smartphone plan has reached the most advanced stage of capitalism – like hot dog buns and hot dogs. In the US, when you buy hot dogs…
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Why the Disconnect? Public vs. Private investors on IoT
I  have been doing a lot of work around IoT (the Internet of Things) lately. It is a subject of near universal interest among the kinds of people I hang out with. Hardware,…
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Do we really need to regulate trolls? The law of unintended consequences
I am going to range a bit from my usual subject matter here. I have been thinking a little about patents and all the joy around “Intellectual Property” (IP). But be forewarned,…
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Microsoft’s Loss is Networking’s Gain
This morning, Microsoft announced that it was shutting down what was left of Nokia. There has been a ton written today about the strategic, personal, historical and branding implications of all this…
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The Shape of Bubbles – Ripples Beneath the Surface
I have become fixated, if not quite obsessed, with thinking about what will happen when the venture spigot gets shut off. I having been writing a lot about this (and here). There…
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Fast Fashion in Chips? Mediatek beats Qualcomm
The Wall Street Journal had a great profile of Indian handset company Micromax yesterday. It was one of those articles I love – comparing one company’s model to that of another in…
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The Shape of Bubbles – The Madding Crowd
When capital is cheap, as it is today, it can be very hard to determine if a business is burning cash because it is ‘investing’ so heavily or if it is stuck…
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This is not a post about Bubbles
This post is not about Bubbles, or the popping of Bubbles. If that were the subject, I would have to spend the first few hundred words arguing why I think we are…
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MWC 2015 – A Year of Substance
It feels like the last few years, Mobile World Congress (MWC) has been filled with vague concepts and more marketing than substance. I think there is a change in this, evident at…
