Apple News and Interest as a Product

An important thing to understand about Apple is it is a company that builds products for people to buy. This sounds like a very simple and obvious thing but in tech it’s actually quite rare — most tech companies build platforms, networks, services, or ecosystems…

Constellation Computers

The way we generally understand innovation is that technology gets smaller, faster, smarter, cheaper, as described by Moore’s Law. This is helpful, but also isolating. A perhaps more nuanced story is told by Metcalfe’s Law, that networks get more useful when there are more nodes…

Making Apps Work for Publishers

Not to dwell, but it may be helpful to recall why the promise of native apps for publishers has been unfulfilled.

• Expectations were set very high — recall unironic heralds that the iPad would save newspapers. Also, The Daily once existed.