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.
With all due respect to Seth Godin, while he may be a marketing guru, his post about minimum viable product makes me think that he hasn’t participated in the product development process in a very long time, considering that his definition of minimum viable product is pretty coarse (and likely why it doesn’t work!). As [...]
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 [...]
If there’s no more cash and only e-wallets, then it had better not run out of juice!
A post on how Apple’s iOS subscription plan isn’t primarily about subscription revenue, which is a smaller slice of the pie. Instead, it’s a strategic move to harness the value-add component of the larger slice of the pie, which is advertising revenue.
So following my earlier recommendation, I jumped out of bed on a crisp Saturday morning and headed over to the Microsoft offices in midtown Manhattan for the 2010 version of ProductCampNYC! There were great conversations, a ton of expertise, and an awesome raffle to close it out. To give you a sample of the topics, [...]
I’m frustrated at the gap between Apple and Google, and it’s not about the typical symptoms harped on around the web (i.e. hardware, client-side software, number of apps). Instead, it really comes down to Google’s product management and in this case, using user personas that stitch together functionality well!
