Miracles happen outside of the comfort zone. – View on Path.
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This is, after all, the natural way of technology. It’s defined by creative destruction. Just as the smartphone killed the flip phone, and the iPad is killing the traditional PC, something is going to come along and kill the smartphone.
The early bet on what kills the smartphone is something like Google Glass. Wearable computers are widely believed to be the next computing fad.
Could Apple’s Rumored iWatch Be an iPhone Killer?(http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/225409)If I survive the apocalypse and live in a Matrix-style world, I will want this technology (via Winscape virtual window makes the leap to Kinect in 4K-capable, 6-screen glory)
If authors of computer programming books wrote arithmetic textbooks (via Arithmetic for Beginners)
“ If we simply divide revenues by PCs sold we get about $55 Windows revenues per PC and $68 of Office revenues per PC sold [1]. The total income for Microsoft per PC sold is therefore about $123. If we divide operating income by PCs as well we get $35 per Windows license and $43 per Office license. That’s a total of $78 of operating profit per PC. Now let’s think about a post-PC future exemplified by the iPad. Apple sells the iPad with a nearly 33% margin but at a higher average price than Microsoft’s software bundle. Apple gives away the software (and apps are very cheap) but it still gains $195 in operating profit per iPad sold. Fine, you say, but Microsoft make up for it in volume. Well, that’s a problem. The tablet volumes are expanding very quickly and are on track to overtake traditional PCs while traditional PCs are likely to be disrupted and decline. So Microsoft faces a dilemma. Their business model of expensive software on cheap hardware is not sustainable. The future is nearly free software integrated into moderately priced hardware.
Who will be Microsoft’s Tim Cook? | asymco
Why Facebook Should Build a Phone
Rumor of the Facebook phone surfaced again recently. The New York Times had an article a few days ago with an interesting quote:
A research report issued late last year by Vision Mobile found that while half the people in developed countries had smartphones by the end of 2011, the devices had reached only 20 percent of the developing world. This is where a Facebook phone could attract a large group of customers. It’s important to note that this market in the developing world is the same market Facebook wants to reach to continue its rapid growth. The hitch: the developing world is skipping the PC phase and going directly to smartphone as computer.
That’s exactly what I thought back in September 2010 when I wrote this article: Where Facebook should direct its phone strategy.
Desktop Computers Look More and More Like Smartphones
By NICK BILTON, nytimes.com
The desktop interface, called “windows, icons, menus, pointer,” or WIMP, never seemed to work for most people. What has worked in intuitive computing is iOS, which continues to make its way onto the desktop.
An astute observation by Nick Bilton. Remember when Windows CE/Mobile tried to transform desktop interface to fit on smartphone screens? Now we’re seeing desktop interfaces trying to look like smartphones.
Everything happens for a reason, but sometimes things happen because you’re stupid and make bad decisions.
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