Check out this WSJ article by Tim Aeppel, involving a few quotes from yours truly at the very end.... 50 Million Users: The Making of an "Angry Birds" Internet Meme.
A quick remark on the Apple Watch Edition (the $10k one)
https://static.medium.com/embed.jsA quick remark on the Apple Watch Edition (the $10K+ one) A lot has been said about the Apple Watch Edition which costs more than $10,000. I initially thought it wouldn’t be priced like that as it would be out of character for Apple whose identity was more mass market — with technology being widely available. To …
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Can competition fix net non-neutrality?
Short answer: it isn’t obvious that it can. Let me back up a second and explain why I am revisiting this issue again. Tim Harford published an article a few days ago that took his masterful econsplaining skills to the issue of net neutrality. But in providing his characteristically clear exposition, he crystallised where many …
The Organisational Choice of PowerPoint versus Excel
It turns out that it can tell you a lot. This is what I took away from a very interesting talk given by Princeton sociologist, Janet Vertesi, on “the social life of robots.” As it turns out, it is not about the robots but about the people that control them — as opposed to the opposite that …
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Why the iPhone confounds disruption theorists
Nokia, Motorola, Sony-Ericsson and BlackBerry were all victims of disruption. During the 1990s and 2000s, they led the cell phone during its period of take-off into ubiquity. Then in the last five years, they have lost their leadership and are on the verge of irrelevance. The common culprit was the 2007 launch of Apple’s iPhone. …
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Net neutrality should apply to mobile networks
As Internet service providers – both wired and wireless – continue to lose ground in the net neutrality debate, they have retreated to engineering requirements rather than economic arguments. Where previously it was all about incentives to invest in infrastructure – arguments that don’t hold up by the way – or the sufficiency of competition – for which …
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My first post at Geek Dad
Geek Dad is a large parenting/geek blog. They recently opened up to a few more contributors. Given my interests, this seemed like a potentially good fit for me. My first post is on digital free-range parenting and may interest some readers.
Some random thoughts on the Apple Car
It has been a week and the Apple Car rumour hasn’t been denied by Apple. (Here’s the background in case you have been living under a rock). So what are we to make of all this? Much of what has been talked about is complete speculation. That it will be electric, autonomous, a mini-van (!) …
Demand Discovery by Cheap Talk
We have seen Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms emerge as a means of demand discovery. In those platforms, consumers commit to purchasing a new product and so incur some real costs. However, Mark Rober has embarked on a different route for his better microwave idea. First, take a look at that idea. It is a …
Searching for the Unreal America
There is often lots of talk in American politics about the ‘real America.’ Suffice it to say, implicit in that is that everyone wants to be real and so even an assertion to the contrary is an insult. Truth be told, however, what many regional and local governments are interested in is whether their location …
Digitopoly 