This is kinda funny. I post a comment to your blog. You often respond personally (and quickly) and yet I don’t know that I would feel comfortable writing you an email.
Strange world this internet.
Fred,
“Try to do it right in the meeting if you can.” Have you ever made a phone call or sent an email in one of those meetings that you regretted later? In the moment you thought that this kid has…
These “” things are very funny. I use them a lot (probably too much). Today I realized that I use them in two very different ways.
1. To show the literal. If I’m referencing something someone said or from a webpage, I’ll throw quotes around it. (“all options on the table”)
2. To show the opposite. As in, implied meaning or even sarcasm. (I “tried” to get up this morning to go running.)
Strange.
The article states that the reason HP, Sony, Dell, and others are losing market share to Apple is not due to the hardware, but because of the OS. There’s no way to differentiate between themselves because they all sell Windows.
ASUS is developing EeePC and the author argues others will follow. Frankly it is the only way someone can challege Apple.
AND, this becomes much more doable because of three things:
1. Internet (desktop apps aren’t as important)
2. File standards
3. Unix (take a flavor of unix and modify it, just like Apple did with OSX)
I agree on openness, but what about patents and other IP that VCs supposedly love?
You could argue that you don’t have to give away the family recipe to get the benefit of sharing, but aren’t you…
Corey
I can see why you would want it all in one place, but I can also see the benefit of having separate conversations (maybe because of privacy or specific interest [music vs. investing] or to include…
it’s about the content. Netflix (dvd) wins overall on the content side because of the variety. Apple TV wins in the device category because it has access to better movies (some might debate that).
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