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Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jul 16, 2014

Apple, IBM and the Pareto principle

If you studied high school economics, you might have come across the Pareto principle, which many people merely refer to as the 80–20 rule. This Wikipedia summary is as good as any:

The Pareto principle … states that, for many events…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jul 2, 2014

A review of early Android Auto and Apple CarPlay support

Apple announced on Tuesday that it had added several new auto manufacturers to its list of partners for its CarPlay automotive platform. Given Google’s official launch of Android Auto last week, we now have two major platforms…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jul 24, 2014

Thoughts on Facebook earnings for Q2 2014

Note: This is part of a series on major tech companies’ Q2 2014 earnings (e.g. Google here, Microsoft here, Apple here and here, Netflix here). My post about Facebook’s earnings last quarter is here.

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Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jul 14, 2014

Apple will make several wearables, but not a watch

Back in January, I did a post titled “Why Apple may not launch an iWatch anytime soon.” The gist of the piece was this: that Apple doesn’t enter markets particularly early, but rather enters at the point where the technology is ready for it…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jul 29, 2014

Thoughts on Twitter earnings for Q2 2014

Note: This is part of a series on major tech companies’ Q2 2014 earnings (e.g. Google here, Microsoft here, Apple here and here, Netflix here, Facebook here and Amazon here). My post about Twitter’s earnings last quarter is here.

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jul 10, 2014

Nadella’s manifesto

Satya Nadella today wrote an email to Microsoft employees, which was simultaneously published on the Microsoft website. We’ve had glimpses and snippets of Nadella’s vision for Microsoft over the past several months, but this is the first time we’ve had the whole thing laid out in clear terms…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jul 24, 2014

Thoughts on Amazon earnings for Q2 2014

Note: This is part of a series on major tech companies’ Q2 2014 earnings (e.g. Google here, Microsoft here, Apple here and here, Netflix here and Facebook here). My post about Amazon’s earnings last quarter is here.

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jul 28, 2014

Twitter and Foursquare’s shared growth problem

Ahead of Twitter’s earnings tomorrow, I wanted to do a quick take on the problem that both Foursquare and Twitter share when it comes to growth. Foursquare is a privately held company and as such we have very little data to go on as far as how many…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jul 22, 2014

Why iPad shipments aren’t growing, but might start again soon

As with last quarter’s Apple earnings call, there has been lots of handwringing about why iPad shipments aren’t growing this quarter. I’ve done a fair amount of thinking about this, and did some analysis as part of the…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jul 17, 2014

Thoughts on Google earnings for Q2 2014

Last quarter, I did a series of posts on big consumer tech companies’ earnings. You can see the full series here. I’m kicking off my thoughts on Q2 earnings with Google, which reported this afternoon. Last quarter’s post on Google is here, and I’ll revisit…

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