I’ve blogged before about how smartphones enable new levels of engagement and context in our digital experiences. Its no small wonder that there are many retailers/restaurants/companies trying to use the engagement and context that smartphones enable to try to sell more stuff to people. While most folks focusing on this have traditionally focused on location-based [...]
This past weekend, a TechCrunch article caught the tech blogosophere off guard with an interesting claim: Facebook is building a mobile phone, says a source who has knowledge of the project. Or rather, they’re building the software for the phone and working with a third party to actually build the hardware. Which is exactly what [...]
Many of my good friends are big fans of Apple and its products. But not me. This good-natured difference in opinion leads us into never-ending mini-debates over Twitter or in real life over the relative merits of Apple’s products and those of its competitors. I suspect many of them (respectfully) think I’m crazy. “Why would [...]
Very provocative headline (see title of blog post) for an interesting WSJ piece: “They are serious about making a change,” one person familiar with the matter said. Nokia board members are “supposed to make a decision by the end of the month,” that person said. They should be very serious about making a change – [...]
One of the most interesting things about technology strategy is that the lines of competition between different businesses is always blurry. Don’t believe me? Ask yourself this, would anyone 10 years ago have predicted that: Google and Apple would be competitors (Android and iPhone) Social networks (a category that didn’t even really exist 10 years [...]
A few weeks back, I wrote a quick overview of Clayton Christensen’s explanation for how new technologies/products can “disrupt” existing products and technologies. In a nutshell, Christensen explains that new “disruptive innovations” succeed not because they win in a head-to-head comparison with existing products (i.e. laptops versus desktops), but because they have three things: Good [...]