Last May I wrote that I’m a big fan of Amazon as a business. Since then my admiration has increased – Bezos and his team continue to pick bold strategies and execute them well. The success of the Kindle Fire is grabbing all the headlines but the company is also quietly turning the book [...]
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I recently read Tim Wu’s The Master Switch (read my review here) the central thesis of which is that tech revolutions start with the promise of freedom to operate, light regulation, plenty of scope for new entrants and a promise of an enduring new order, but always end with regulated monopolies and oligopolies. A [...] Regular readers will know that I’m a strong believer in open standards. I think they provide the best platform for innovation and are the best protection against monopolists. Hence I would love it if the open web prevailed, and the rising power of gatekeepers like Apple, Amazon, Facebook and even Google annoys me as [...] I was struck this morning by two headlines which summed up the recent successes and failures of two household tech names: The Kindle Fire Is On Fire; Amazon Expected To Ship 3.9 Million This Quarter RIM To Miss Earnings Goals After Half A Billion In PlayBook And Outage Charges It is notable how everything [...] Matias Duarte of Google wrote a long post yesterday about the new Roboto typeface they are using in Ice Cream Sandwich (aka Android 4.0). It is interesting more for what it says about how Google is trying to portray itself as for the details of how they went about making Roboto. Matias is [...] I love using the Amazon iPhone app and this weekend I tweeted about how good the British Airways app is, but what I don’t want is to have an app on my phone for every retailer I use. That would be a navigation nightmare – already I find myself swiping left and right through [...] Peter Kafka has a post up today on AllThingsD titled Amazon starts an ad network powered by your data which has the following description of Amazon’s latest innovation: The e-commerce giant has started what is effectively an ad network*, where it buys Web advertising inventory and resells it to marketers at a premium. It [...] In a day when the world is awash with talk of bubbles after Groupon and Pandora filed for their IPOs I thought it would be interesting to take step back and look at the performance of a handful of the best tech companies created since the dawn of the internet. The growth of [...] I’m a long time admirer of Amazon as a business. I’ve previously posted videos from Jeff Bezos and written and talked about their incredible track record of innovation. The first big shift was from simple ecommerce store to a market place – on its own that would be impressive. But to my mind the [...] The problem with closed systems like Apple’s where a single vendor looks to sell product at multiple different levels in the value chain is that pretty soon they end up with conflicts between the different levels and the product suffers as a result. It looks like this is playing out at Apple now [...] |
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