If the rumours turn out to be true and Apple does release an iPhone 6 Mini I’ll likely buy it. I got my iPhone 6 at the start of November and switched to it from my iPhone 5s. But two weeks later I switched back to my 5s. Just this week I’m having another go at trying the 6, but I’m probably going back to the 5s again next week. The main reason is the form factor. Everything...
From Matt Mullenweg, responding to Paul Graham’s post: If 95% of great programmers aren’t in the US, and an even higher percentage not in the Bay Area, set up your company to take advantage of that fact as a strength, not a weakness. It’s always easy to oversimplify this issue, but there’s good points on both sides here, plus the Hacker News discussion is useful reading...
There’s no real surprises in the overall findings in PewResearch’s latest study on the impact of technology on workers: email and internet are very important, office landline phones are important, cell phones not so important. But in the remarks down the page there is a finding related to website access that I found surprising: Just under half of those surveyed say their employer...
From Fred Wilson’s post reflecting on 2014: 3/ the “sharing economy†was outed as the “rental economy.†nobody is sharing anything. people are making money, plain and simple. technology has made renting things (even in real time) as simple as it made buying things a decade ago. Uber and Airbnb are the big winners in this category but there are and will be others. See also Steve...
More silly lawyer-wealth-building coming up, in a new class action against Apple: Apple has touted iOS 8 as the “biggest iOS 8 release ever,†a tagline plaintiffs lawyers tried to spin to their advantage in the complaint, arguing that few users understood just how much space the software would take up. They claim Apple exploits the space constraints by peddling iCloud subscriptions when users...
I’m fascinated that services like Instacart can command multi-billion dollar valuations. Sure, the sharing economy is in full swing, and making your pitch ‘the Uber of grocery deliveries’ is nice, but I’m intrigued how they are going to make much profit long term. Revenues might have increased 10X over the past year, but I’d love to know how much (if any) is profit...
Another excellent post (long, but worth the read) from Aaron Wall, discussing the ever-growing impact of Google on businesses – no matter how big or small – that markets themselves online (ie just about every business). Scary times.
Not that this is new of course.
Twitter’s ‘strategy statement’ update last week really got the twitterverse going apeshit. But I suspect it was all a cleverly concocted distraction to divert journalists away from the much more obvious message: ie Twitter has no idea how they are ever going to make a profit. Here’s the internal discussion that probably transpired: “We need to craft a message so...
Really cool to see that the Microsoft Office team are essentially making Office free for everyone to use on iOS (and soon Android). I really like this approach (as I’ve mentioned previously). And this on the back of the earlier announcement this week about adding Dropbox integration. Exciting times for any Microsoft watcher and user. My personal user experience so far is very positive...
Frank Arrigo. At last.