Competition in the Digital Age
As pretty much everyone knows, it is hard to face the choice, several times a day, of whether to choose ‘fit’ or ‘fat’ food or something in between. When I noticed that my wife was taking pictures of her food in order to keep a record of how she was doing diet-wise I wondered if …
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[This post originally appeared at HBR on 3rd July 2012] Music publishers have long realized that consumers need help with finding new music. Radio played this role, and it was a source of revenue too. The placement of songs in movies and other media also fueled demand. The music video evolved from television shows to …
John Gruber points us to a prediction made by Clay Christensen 5 years ago about the iPhone: That’s why they’ve [Apple] been successful. But just watch the [competitors'] advertisements that you hear for the ability to download music onto your mobile phone. Music on the mobile phone has to be downloaded in an open architecture …
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Last week, Google released its Chrome Browser for iOS. A few weeks earlier it had update its main search app for iOS. Both are extremely good. The Chrome Browser does something important, it synchronises data and also open tabs across devices. That means that when I am on my iPad I can now see what …
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