Archive for 2012
Why does the next Xbox need discs at all?
Jan. 26, ‘12: If this is the App Store era, why add Blu-ray to the next Xbox? If true, my guesses are: Bandwidth, storage, and movies, in that order.
The Juicebox: A secure, public phone charging station that doesn’t look like crap
Jan. 25, ‘12: From its FAQ: How does it fit with my venue’s decor? We’re former bartenders from some of Manhattan’s most upscale bars and restaurants, so we designed the Juicebox to be elegant and compact. At just over 2 1/2 feet tall … Continue reading →
Can Apple beat $80 billion this Christmas?
Jan. 24, ‘12: Over at ReadWriteWeb, I take a look at Apple’s incredible, accelerating growth rate. This past Christmas, Apple needed to add an extra $20 billion in new sales to grow by 73%. The year before, it “only” needed to generate an … Continue reading →
Apple’s Monster Quarter In Charts
Jan. 24, ‘12: Apple’s just-reported December quarter was so huge that I had to change the scale on almost every chart below. Expectations coming in were high, but Apple beat them anyway, shipping 37 million iPhones — almost as many as it shipped … Continue reading →
RIM can’t save itself
Jan. 23, ‘12: New Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins — previously a co-COO at the BlackBerry maker, in charge of product and sales — is too little, too late. Unless Heins is secretly a rare, freakish visionary genius whose creativity has been stifled … Continue reading →
“Kill Hollywood”
Jan. 20, ‘12: Y Combinator, asking for startups to drive the future of entertainment: Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras, say, or typewriters), it could look forward to a couple decades of peaceful decline. But this … Continue reading →
Microsoft: Over 525 million Windows 7 licenses since launch
Jan. 20, ‘12: That is, admittedly, a very big number. Since then — October, 2009 — Apple has likely sold about 35 million Macs, possibly 250 million iOS devices, and Google has seen almost 250 million Android activations. (We’ll find out how Apple … Continue reading →
Netflix is looking for a new CMO
Jan. 20, ‘12: Remember Qwikster?
Microsoft blames the iPad — er, “competing form factors” — for weak PC market
Jan. 20, ‘12: Microsoft’s investor relations general manager Bill Koefoed, speaking on yesterday’s earnings call, via Seeking Alpha: Turning to the PC market, as I mentioned last week, it was a challenging quarter for the industry. Factors such as the flooding in Thailand, macroeconomic … Continue reading →
Why Vevo won’t ditch YouTube for Facebook
Jan. 20, ‘12: Vevo, the music video website owned by a few record labels (in partnership with YouTube/Google), has met with Facebook about the potential of switching away from YouTube as its video host, according to CNET’s Greg Sandoval. It makes sense for … Continue reading →
