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Before Apple introduced the iPhone...
Despite all that’s stored, it appears the Internet has little memory. Exuberance for shiny new things often overtakes our willingness to remember how we got here. This could be both good and bad… more →
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Before Apple introduced the iPhone...
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Kontra wrote 2 months ago: Despite all that’s stored, it appears the Internet has little memory. Exuberance for shiny new … more →
Apple The Storekeeper
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Kontra wrote 6 months ago: If you’re the owner of a general store in a small town of 83 people at some corner of a golden … more →
A Kindle in the wind: Amazon's strategic dilemma
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Kontra wrote 6 months ago: Synergy cuts both ways When Steve Jobs started his repositioning of Apple a decade ago, he used to r … more →
The cellphone SKU wars: Why Apple isn't like Nokia
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Kontra wrote 7 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 7 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 8 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 9 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 9 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 10 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 10 months ago: Thus came the promise of the second Android-based cellphone, from a company you’ve never heard … more →
Daily question: Foot. Bullet. Trigger.
Kontra wrote 10 months ago: From The Crystal Reports® Underground, SAP resurrects the “screenshots” issue: Business Objects clai … more →
Noted: Your coffee maker. Running Windows. Again.
Kontra wrote 10 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 10 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 10 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 11 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 11 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 12 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 1 year 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 1 year ago: Dan Roam’s recent book, The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictur … more →
