An article on TUAW about the history of the MacBook Air prompted me to think back in early 2010, when I was comparison shopping for a lightweight laptop. My search had come down to four choices: the Toshiba Portégé M800, the Panasonic Y5, the Lenovo ThinkPad X301, and the MacBook Air. At the time, these [...]
I just don’t understand why the idea of web properties sponsored by advertising continues to be news. In fact, this quote from Alicia Eler from RWW sums it up pretty well: If you pay for a product, you’re a customer. If you don’t, you’re the product. On Facebook, you are the product. It’s applicable to [...]
In a piece of news that totally illustrates a B2C relationship going awry, Samsung has announced that it won’t be providing additional upgrades to one of its most successful Android smartphones to date, the Galaxy S. That sucks.
This year has been a sad one for technology. First, it was Ken Olsen in February, the founder of DEC. Then just today, it was Steve Jobs. Both men played their role in pioneering advances in technology, but the thing I take away from these two is that they sought to make things both simpler [...]
The newest offering from Amazon, the Amazon Kindle Fire, is a genius stroke to expand its core business of being the world’s marketplace! The key is in the fact that the device’s sole purpose is to minimize the friction of acquiring and consuming electronic media of many stripes (i.e. ebooks, video, music). And by doing [...]
I’ve gone to ProductCampNYC for the past few years, and it’s always a great experience! This year was the first year that I submitted some ideas for speaking, and I was fortunate that folks were interested in HTML5 (or at least, as much as I am!). But my bigger takeaway this year was from the keynote [...]
Over the last few months, there’s been so much turmoil in the touchscreen tablet space! Consider: HP’s newest foray into tablet computing, not with a Windows OS but instead with WebOS, subsequently gets beheaded in under 2 months after the TouchPad’s launch. Android’s Honeycomb and Gingerbread tablets are growing in number, but not so much [...]
Apple is probably thanking PayPal and Google for priming the pump of digital wallets and consumer adoption.
If there’s no more cash and only e-wallets, then it had better not run out of juice!
Visa and Square’s partnership is a much better play than Verifone’s smear campaign in March 2011.
