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Apple The Storekeeper
If you’re the owner of a general store in a small town of 83 people at some corner of a goldenrod state, you’d know the name of every man, woman and child there, where they live and when,… more →
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Apple The Storekeeper
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Kontra wrote 1 month ago: If you’re the owner of a general store in a small town of 83 people at some corner of a golde … more →
A Kindle in the wind: Amazon's strategic dilemma
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Kontra wrote 1 month ago: Synergy cuts both ways When Steve Jobs started his repositioning of Apple a decade ago, he used to … more →
The cellphone SKU wars: Why Apple isn't like Nokia
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Kontra wrote 2 months ago: There’s a strange blindness that obscures U.S. blog and news coverage of iPhone. If the measur … more →
When is it "too early" for a new product?
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Kontra wrote 3 months ago: In Only Ten Years Too Early, Fred Wilson recounts his VC investment in a “cheap internet appli … more →
iPhone OS 3: The moat strategy vs. features-fetishism
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Kontra wrote 3 months ago: The chattering class has a fetishistic indulgence with smartphones bordering on techno-porn: Rumors … more →
Global myopia on iPhone features
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Kontra wrote 4 months ago: Tomi T Ahonen – Author, Consultant and Motivational Speaker – Author of six bestselling … more →
Does "A VC" have a blind spot for Apple?
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Kontra wrote 4 months ago: We don’t do formal take-downs of uninformed polemics here, but it’s a bank holiday today … more →
Checklists: Why doesn't everyone do it?
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Kontra wrote 5 months ago: Some years ago, just before going into surgery, a loved one asked me to place a sticky note on one o … more →
Agora phone exposes Android's Achilles Heel
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Kontra wrote 5 months ago: Thus came the promise of the second Android-based cellphone, from a company you’ve never hear … more →
Daily question: Foot. Bullet. Trigger.
Kontra wrote 5 months ago: From The Crystal Reports® Underground, SAP resurrects the “screenshots” issue: Business Objects cla … more →
Noted: Your coffee maker. Running Windows. Again.
Kontra wrote 5 months ago: From Ars Technica, “Microsoft’s new vision: a computer in every… coffee maker? … more →
Strategic shortcomings of Pre in the post-iPhone era
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Kontra wrote 5 months ago: In Who can beat iPhone 2.0? we explored what it would take to compete against the now-iconic device … more →
Snake Oil: "Transformation" kills "Innovation"
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Kontra wrote 6 months ago: On the last day of 2008, Bruce Nussbaum in Business Week: “Innovation” died in 2008 … more →
Book review: "Closing the Innovation Gap"
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Kontra wrote 6 months ago: We have often highlighted here Apple’s record of innovation in the last decade as a vertically … more →
Google shows Microsoft how to connect the dots
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Kontra wrote 7 months ago: Whenever Google introduces a new app or service not based on search or advertising (its primary reve … more →
Thanksgiving for 10 blunders Apple didn't commit
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Kontra wrote 7 months ago: It’s Thanksgiving again. Time to reflect and count our blessings. For those touched by Apple … more →
How successful are former Apple executives?
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Kontra wrote 7 months ago: Apple is one of the most admired brands in the world and its financial turn around over the last hal … more →
Daily question: How much is that stick-figure drawing worth?
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Kontra wrote 8 months ago: Dan Roam’s recent book, The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictur … more →
Daily question: Browser Wars, the good old days?
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Kontra wrote 8 months ago: Douglas Crockford, senior JavaScript Architect at Yahoo!, father of JSON and the author of JavaScri … more →
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