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Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Aug 20, 2014

Twitter’s channel model is broken

Zach Seward has an interesting piece on Quartz today about how Twitter is like TV. Quoting from that piece:

What makes the service so compelling — and also, yes, maddening — is how linear it is. Twitter marches in a straight line with time, like…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Aug 26, 2014

Quick Thoughts: Uber competitive practices

I’ve been meaning to try something different on here for a while now. Most of my posts are pretty long and in-depth, but every now and then I have a thought that’s too long to express clearly on Twitter and too short for an in-depth post. Those tend to…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jul 31, 2014

Breaking down Microsoft’s business

Note: this is a follow-up to my first post on Microsoft’s recent quarterly earnings, and is part of a series on major tech companies’ earnings for Q2 2014.

Microsoft filed its 10-K for the year ending June 2014 with the SEC on Thursday, and as…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Aug 21, 2014

Communications and content drive consumer tech

I have a chart I often use in my presentations to clients, which encapsulates my perspective on the consumer technology market:

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Aug 6, 2014

Evaluating Hesse’s tenure at Sprint

With news today that Dan Hesse is being replaced as CEO of Sprint by Marcelo Claure , I thought it would be worth looking back at Hesse’s tenure as CEO.

An early opinion, from 2008

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Aug 7, 2014

Today’s Techpinions post: What does cloud-first, mobile-first mean for Microsoft?

I do a weekly column for Techpinions in addition to my regular stream of posts here on Beyond Devices. Today’s post is about what cloud-first, mobile-first — one of Satya Nadella’s mantras —…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Aug 7, 2014

Where do Sprint and T-Mobile go from here?

After a couple of days of talking to various reporters about the Sprint and T-Mobile news from this week, I thought I’d take some time to write up my thoughts on the situation. I already posted some thoughts on Dan Hesse’s tenure at Sprint here. This has…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Aug 25, 2014

Why Amazon wants Twitch

After weeks of reporting that Google would acquire game-streaming site Twitch to bolster its YouTube empire, it appears those talks have fallen through and Amazon will now acquire the site. The YouTube logic was so obvious that it didn’t even require explaining, but Amazon’s acquisition…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Aug 28, 2014

Quick Thoughts: on iPhone sizes

Now that it’s official that Apple will be holding an event on September 9th, speculation has turned once again to exactly what size the various iPhones Apple might launch will be. Much of the debate so far has focused on whether there will be one or two new sizes: 4.7…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Aug 22, 2014

This week’s Techpinions column — Apple and Mobile Payments

My column for Techpinions this week is about Apple and mobile payments, and was prompted by the current heightened interest in Apple’s plans in this area, driven both by the prospect of new iPhones and wearables. I quote survey…

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